Stuart S. Dunmore is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.

This book shines critical light on the understudied but statistically dominant category of new learners in Nova Scotia. Stuart Dunmore is making exciting inroads in the emergent field of North American Gaelic studies. He is a master of his topic, and his book is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the place of the language and the motivations of its speakers in Atlantic Canada today.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgements1. Gaelic and Gaels in Scotland and Nova Scotia: A Historical and Contemporary Account2. Language, Ethnicity and Identities: A Conceptual Frame3. Gaelic Language Ideologies in Scotland and Nova Scotia: An Ethnographic Introduction to the Research Sites4. New Gaelic Speakers’ Language Acquisition and Use5. Contrasting Gaelic Identities: Heritage, Language Ideologies and Motivation6. Quantitative Perspectives on New Gaelic Speakerhood in Scotland and Nova Scotia7. New Worlds: Transatlantic Gaeldom and Twenty-first-century Linguistic PracticeBibliographyIndex

Stuart S. Dunmore is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.

This book shines critical light on the understudied but statistically dominant category of new learners in Nova Scotia. Stuart Dunmore is making exciting inroads in the emergent field of North American Gaelic studies. He is a master of his topic, and his book is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the place of the language and the motivations of its speakers in Atlantic Canada today.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgements1. Gaelic and Gaels in Scotland and Nova Scotia: A Historical and Contemporary Account2. Language, Ethnicity and Identities: A Conceptual Frame3. Gaelic Language Ideologies in Scotland and Nova Scotia: An Ethnographic Introduction to the Research Sites4. New Gaelic Speakers’ Language Acquisition and Use5. Contrasting Gaelic Identities: Heritage, Language Ideologies and Motivation6. Quantitative Perspectives on New Gaelic Speakerhood in Scotland and Nova Scotia7. New Worlds: Transatlantic Gaeldom and Twenty-first-century Linguistic PracticeBibliographyIndex

Stuart S. Dunmore is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.

This book shines critical light on the understudied but statistically dominant category of new learners in Nova Scotia. Stuart Dunmore is making exciting inroads in the emergent field of North American Gaelic studies. He is a master of his topic, and his book is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the place of the language and the motivations of its speakers in Atlantic Canada today.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgements1. Gaelic and Gaels in Scotland and Nova Scotia: A Historical and Contemporary Account2. Language, Ethnicity and Identities: A Conceptual Frame3. Gaelic Language Ideologies in Scotland and Nova Scotia: An Ethnographic Introduction to the Research Sites4. New Gaelic Speakers’ Language Acquisition and Use5. Contrasting Gaelic Identities: Heritage, Language Ideologies and Motivation6. Quantitative Perspectives on New Gaelic Speakerhood in Scotland and Nova Scotia7. New Worlds: Transatlantic Gaeldom and Twenty-first-century Linguistic PracticeBibliographyIndex