Family Language Policy: Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home

Based on an eight-year study of a family on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, this book explores why the children in the family do not often speak Gaelic, despite the adults' best efforts to use the language with them, as well as the children's attendance at a

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137521811.0001

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137521811.0001

Family Language Policy: Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home Cassie Smith-Christmas University of the Highlands and Islands/University of Edinburgh, UK

DOI: 10.1057/9781137521811.0001

© Cassie Smith-Christmas 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-52180-4 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number