Analysing the Tension Between Community-Oriented Language Policy and ‘New-Speakerness' in the Case of Irish : Should These Two Approaches Be Considered as Independent or as Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Diplôme Master Analysing the Tension Between Community-Oriented Language Policy and ‘New-Speakerness' in the Case of Irish : Should These Two Approaches Be Considered as Independent or as Two Sides of the Same Coin? eng 2021 author Pozzi Patrick 832559 director Grin François 0000-0002-0435-7547 29947 The decline of Irish as a community language in the Gaeltacht is in contrast with its rise as an L2 in the rest of the country. This research explores the tension between community-oriented language policy, focused on the preservation of native speakers, and ‘new speakerness', centred on the production of committed learners, to establish whether these two approaches should be regarded as independent or as complementary. Data were gathered on the basis of census results and a corpus of scientific texts, and a series of interviews was conducted with three experts. The results, supported by a comparison based on the criteria of ‘capacity', ‘opportunities', and ‘desire', suggest that the future of Irish as a living language relies on the existence of both L1 and L2 speakers. Due to ideological differences, community-oriented language policy and ‘new speakerness' can, however, yield different results and thus favour one particular speaker group. Therefore, they should be combined in a targeted and balanced way. Irish Gaeltacht New speakers Minority languages Language maintenance and shift Irlandais Gaeltacht Nouveaux locuteurs Langues minoritaires Conversion linguistique et maintien de la langue Dewey 418.02 Maîtrise universitaire en traduction et communication spécialisée multilingue 111 Département de traduction 91 false db668d52-54c4-4731-a338-44e4dc4462ae Master thesis Public Patrick_Pozzi_Memoire_Version_Finale.pdf 1642826 application/pdf openAccess Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département de traduction

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