Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland

With an eminently readable style, clear structure and judiciously used signposting, Dunmore’s book fills a gap in the literature of language revitalisation. It will both inspire and motivate scholars and researchers to undertake similar studies, especially in minority-language contexts where immersion education is seen as a beacon illuminating successful revitalisation. -- Muiris Ó Laoire, Munster Technological University * Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development *
Having confirmed the inadequacy of school as a standalone site of language socialization, his work sounds a clarion call for innovation. In recent years, there has indeed been a growing awareness within academic and activist circles of the need for complementary strategies for language maintenance and revitalization … Dunmore's monograph will thus undoubtedly catalyse the momentum of emerging work on innovative initiatives and spaces for language socialization, and help hasten the development of further language maintenance and revitalization efforts that do indeed work. -- Sara C. Brennan, Université de Lorraine, Nancy * Journal of Sociolinguistics *
The book will prove to be a very valuable resource for language educators, policy makers and scholars of language death and revitalisation for many years to come. -- Michael Hornsby, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań * Studia Celtica Posnaniensia *
With Scottish Gaelic in decline for almost a millennium, Dunmore’s book fills a crucial gap in our understanding of the long-term social and linguistic outcomes of Gaelic medium education. It will inform policy makers and activists in Scotland and worldwide, where revitalization efforts are underway to create new speakers and domains through schooling. -- Professor Emerita Suzanne Romaine, University of Oxford