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EMILY McEWAN-FUJITAPh.D., University of Chicago, 2003 |
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EMILY McEWAN-FUJITAPh.D., University of Chicago, 2003 |
My research on minority language shift and revitalization explores the construction of boundaries and the social organization of difference as accomplished through language use and discourses about language. I analyze how people create and ideologize links between language use and conceptions of ethnicity, class, nationalism, and economic development, in the study of Scottish Gaelic language revitalization efforts in Scotland. I analyze the way Scots hierarchically classify language varieties and map them onto space, time, class and ethnicity. I also trace the way in which neoliberal approaches to economic development and language planning in the UK and the European Union shape efforts to revitalize Gaelic.
Endangered Languages and Ethnolinguistic Diversity; Language, Ethnicity, and Nationalism; Language, Culture and Society; Anthropology of Europe; European Societies.
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