Conchúr Ó Giollagáin
Biographic Data
| ID | 900139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Conchúr Ó Giollagáin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Conchúr Ó |
| FAMILY NAME | Giollagáin |
| SIGNATURE | GIOLLAGÁIN C Ó |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8383-2782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Delicate Balancing Act
Research on language policy and planning (LPP) decision making for Gaelic in Scotland attempted to map out the major preoccupations and identify blindspots held by those overseeing policy construction and implementation. Interviews with elite players in LPP development elicited key qualitative data which was benchmarked against core issues identified in a survey of participants in a putative Scottish Gaelic socioeconomy and social economy. The re…
Language Dynamics in Society (LanDS)
Language Dynamics in Society (LanDS) is an analytical framework to reappraise ethnolinguistic vitality (EV) which is key to societal processes affecting the stability of language groups. LanDS proposes an enhanced academic analysis of EV and Language Promotion and Protection. This EV approach addresses the dynamics of how social players participate in the processes which are beneficial or detrimental to EV. LanDS posits four analytical Developmen…
Including the Threatened First-language Gaelic Vernacular Community in Gaelic Promotion and Protection
This article serves as a rebuttal to McLeod et al’s criticism of Ó Giollagáin and Caimbeul’s ‘Moving Beyond Asocial Minority Language Policy’ article in this journal, while also offering an analysis of McLeod et al’s disapproving viewpoint of the conclusions and recommendations in Ó Giollagáin et al’s The Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community (2020). This rebuttal argues for the inclusion of the threatened first-language Gaelic vernacular com…
Moving beyond Asocial Minority-Language Policy
This paper exams how asocial symbolic minority-language policy contributes to the social processes of language shift from the perspective of highly threatened languages, such as Scottish Gaelic. In introducing the concept of language shift through Asocial Minority-Language Policy, we argue that symbolic minority-language policy is detrimental to threatened language minorities in that it is ideologically implicated in language shift when it neglec…
Unfirm ground
This is the first of a two-part article which examines the implications of the transformations in the relationship between those who exercise political and State power in Ireland and those who adhere to the minority Irish language culture. The evolution of language policy in the Irish State since independence in 1922 is considered from the perspective of linguistic sustainability, as opposed to the well-established trend in language policy discou…
From revivalist to undertaker
This is the second of a two-part article which examines the implications of the changing relationship between those who exercise political and State power in Ireland and those who adhere to the minority Irish language culture. Building on the analysis in the first article (Ó Giollagáin, 2014) in relation to the evolution of language policy in the Irish State since independence in 1922, this paper offers an analysis of current language policy refo…
Stairsheanchas Mhicil Chonraí
Unfirm ground
This is the first of a two-part article which examines the implications of the transformations in the relationship between those who exercise political and State power in Ireland and those who adhere to the minority Irish language culture. The evolution of language policy in the Irish State since independence in 1922 is considered from the perspective of linguistic sustainability, as opposed to the well-established trend in language policy discou…
From revivalist to undertaker
This is the second of a two-part article which examines the implications of the changing relationship between those who exercise political and State power in Ireland and those who adhere to the minority Irish language culture. Building on the analysis in the first article (Ó Giollagáin, 2014) in relation to the evolution of language policy in the Irish State since independence in 1922, this paper offers an analysis of current language policy refo…
Moving beyond Asocial Minority-Language Policy
This paper exams how asocial symbolic minority-language policy contributes to the social processes of language shift from the perspective of highly threatened languages, such as Scottish Gaelic. In introducing the concept of language shift through Asocial Minority-Language Policy, we argue that symbolic minority-language policy is detrimental to threatened language minorities in that it is ideologically implicated in language shift when it neglec…
Language Dynamics in Society (LanDS)
Language Dynamics in Society (LanDS) is an analytical framework to reappraise ethnolinguistic vitality (EV) which is key to societal processes affecting the stability of language groups. LanDS proposes an enhanced academic analysis of EV and Language Promotion and Protection. This EV approach addresses the dynamics of how social players participate in the processes which are beneficial or detrimental to EV. LanDS posits four analytical Developmen…
Including the Threatened First-language Gaelic Vernacular Community in Gaelic Promotion and Protection
This article serves as a rebuttal to McLeod et al’s criticism of Ó Giollagáin and Caimbeul’s ‘Moving Beyond Asocial Minority Language Policy’ article in this journal, while also offering an analysis of McLeod et al’s disapproving viewpoint of the conclusions and recommendations in Ó Giollagáin et al’s The Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community (2020). This rebuttal argues for the inclusion of the threatened first-language Gaelic vernacular com…
Stairsheanchas Mhicil Chonraí
Unfirm ground
This is the first of a two-part article which examines the implications of the transformations in the relationship between those who exercise political and State power in Ireland and those who adhere to the minority Irish language culture. The evolution of language policy in the Irish State since independence in 1922 is considered from the perspective of linguistic sustainability, as opposed to the well-established trend in language policy discou…
From revivalist to undertaker
This is the second of a two-part article which examines the implications of the changing relationship between those who exercise political and State power in Ireland and those who adhere to the minority Irish language culture. Building on the analysis in the first article (Ó Giollagáin, 2014) in relation to the evolution of language policy in the Irish State since independence in 1922, this paper offers an analysis of current language policy refo…
Moving beyond Asocial Minority-Language Policy
This paper exams how asocial symbolic minority-language policy contributes to the social processes of language shift from the perspective of highly threatened languages, such as Scottish Gaelic. In introducing the concept of language shift through Asocial Minority-Language Policy, we argue that symbolic minority-language policy is detrimental to threatened language minorities in that it is ideologically implicated in language shift when it neglec…
Including the Threatened First-language Gaelic Vernacular Community in Gaelic Promotion and Protection
This article serves as a rebuttal to McLeod et al’s criticism of Ó Giollagáin and Caimbeul’s ‘Moving Beyond Asocial Minority Language Policy’ article in this journal, while also offering an analysis of McLeod et al’s disapproving viewpoint of the conclusions and recommendations in Ó Giollagáin et al’s The Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community (2020). This rebuttal argues for the inclusion of the threatened first-language Gaelic vernacular com…
A Delicate Balancing Act
Research on language policy and planning (LPP) decision making for Gaelic in Scotland attempted to map out the major preoccupations and identify blindspots held by those overseeing policy construction and implementation. Interviews with elite players in LPP development elicited key qualitative data which was benchmarked against core issues identified in a survey of participants in a putative Scottish Gaelic socioeconomy and social economy. The re…
Language Dynamics in Society (LanDS)
Language Dynamics in Society (LanDS) is an analytical framework to reappraise ethnolinguistic vitality (EV) which is key to societal processes affecting the stability of language groups. LanDS proposes an enhanced academic analysis of EV and Language Promotion and Protection. This EV approach addresses the dynamics of how social players participate in the processes which are beneficial or detrimental to EV. LanDS posits four analytical Developmen…
Linguistics (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Language policy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Minority language (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Political Systems and Governance (4 works) · Politics (4 works)