Bernadette O'Rourke
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Bernadette O'Rourke's Degrees
- Masters Irish Language and Literature National University of Ireland
- Bachelors Irish Language and Literature National University of Ireland
Why Is Bernadette O'Rourke Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bernadette O'Rourke is an Irish linguist from County Clare. She is currently Professor of Sociolinguistics and Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow and is a specialist in the construction of difference through language and social inequalities. Her research focuses on "neophones" or new speakers of minority languages such as Irish Gaelic and Galician. She has also published and commented on the assumptions of monolinguism in Great Britain, particularly in the context of Brexit, public policy related to minority languages in Ireland, the UK, and Europe.
Bernadette O'Rourke's Published Works
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Published Works
- New speakers of minority languages: the challenging opportunity – Foreword (2014) (251)
- Competing ideologies of linguistic authority amongst new speakers in contemporary Galicia (2013) (154)
- New speakers of Irish: shifting boundaries across time and space (2014) (120)
- The native-non-native dichotomy in minority language contexts: comparisons between Irish and Galician (2011) (119)
- From native speakers to “new speakers” – problematizing nativeness in language revitalization contexts (2013) (83)
- Whose Language Is It? Struggles for Language Ownership in an Irish Language Classroom (2011) (62)
- Neofalantes as an active minority: understanding language practices and motivations for change amongst new speakers of Galician (2014) (54)
- Galician and Irish in the European Context (2011) (47)
- “New speakers” of Gaelic: perceptions of linguistic authenticity and appropriateness (2015) (47)
- Identity, accent aim, and motivation in second language users: New Scottish Gaelic speakers’ use of phonetic variation (2016) (46)
- Galician and Irish in the European Context: Attitudes Towards Weak and Strong Minority Languages (2010) (44)
- New speakers and processes of new speakerness across time and space (2015) (34)
- Standardizing Minority Languages : Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery (2017) (29)
- Just use it! Linguistic conversion and identities of resistance amongst Galician new speakers (2018) (28)
- 'New Speakers' of Gaelic in Edinburgh and Glasgow (2014) (24)
- Comparing “new speakers” across language contexts: mobility and motivations: Introduction (2018) (22)
- New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context (2020) (22)
- The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities (2019) (18)
- Introduction (2018) (15)
- "A miña variedade é defectuosa": a lexitimidade social das neofalas (2013) (14)
- Expressing Identity Through Lesser-used Languages: Examples from the Irish and Galician Contexts (2005) (13)
- Language Revitalisation Models in Minority Language Contexts: Tensions between Ideologies of Authenticity and Anonymity (2015) (13)
- Language-learning holidays: what motivates people to learn a minority language? (2017) (12)
- Becoming a new speaker of Irish: linguistic mudes throughout the life cycle (2014) (12)
- Top-down or bottom-up language policy : public service interpreting in the republic of Ireland, Scotland and Spain (2009) (11)
- Language and Cognition in Gaelic-English Young Adult Bilingual Speakers: A Positive Effect of School Immersion Program on Attentional and Grammatical Skills (2020) (10)
- Negotiating multilingualism in an Irish primary school context (2011) (10)
- New speaker parents as grassroots policy makers in contemporary Galicia: ideologies, management and practices (2019) (10)
- Regimenting the Gaeltacht: Authenticity, anonymity, and expectation in contemporary Ireland (2019) (9)
- “Employers could use us, but they don’t”: voices from blue-collar workplaces in a northern periphery (2019) (8)
- Language Contact between Galician and Spanish: Conflict or Harmony? Young People’s Linguistic Attitudes in Contemporary Galicia (2006) (8)
- Identities and New Speakers of Minority Languages: A Focus on Galician (2018) (7)
- Profiles of new speakers of Galician (2014) (7)
- Attitudes towards minority languages: an investigation of young people's attitudes towards Irish and Galician (2005) (7)
- Commercialising the cúpla focal: New speakers, language ownership, and the promotion of Irish as a business resource (2018) (7)
- New Speakers, Nonnative Speakers: Towards a Post-National Linguistics (2014) (5)
- Los nuevos hablantes de lenguas minoritarias: una comparación entre Irlanda y Galicia (2010) (5)
- Language awareness amongst “new speakers” in a multilingual classroom (2018) (5)
- Carving out breathing spaces for Galician. New speakers’ investment in monolingual practices (2018) (5)
- Conflicting values in contemporary Galicia: attitudes to ?O Galego? since autonomy (2003) (5)
- Resilience, smartphone use and language among urban refugees in the Global south (2021) (5)
- Language Attitudes in Language Policy and Planning (2012) (5)
- NEW SPEAKERS IN A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE (2014) (4)
- Irish parents and Gaelic-medium education in Scotland (2015) (4)
- New Speakers and Language Policy (2018) (4)
- Negotiating the standard in contemporary Galicia (2017) (3)
- Early childhood caries in multilingual community. (2020) (3)
- Language Education for New Speakers of Minority Languages (2017) (3)
- Selling a language to save it? The business-oriented promotion of Gaelic and Irish (2016) (3)
- The Galician Language in the Twienty-First Century (2014) (2)
- Conflicting values in contemporary Galicia (2003) (2)
- Theorizing the speaker and speakerness in applied linguistics (2022) (2)
- Research Report on New Speakers of Irish (2015) (2)
- A Cross-National Study of Young People’s Attitudes (2011) (1)
- Irish and Galician: a comparative analysis of minority language cases (2003) (1)
- Tenderness and Retail Stability of Hydrodyne-Treated Beef (1998) (1)
- Language education for new speakers (2017) (1)
- Forced migration, use of smartphones and the role of language: REDI project report (2019) (1)
- New Speakers of Minority Languages (2018) (1)
- Opening new lines of communication in applied linguistics (2014) (1)
- Responding to sociolinguistic change: New speakers and variationist sociolinguistics (2022) (1)
- Introduction: Minority Languages and Communities in a Changing World (2018) (1)
- “Employers could use us, but they don’t”: voices from blue-collar workplaces in a northern periphery (2019) (1)
- Sustaining minority communities: the case of Galician (2011) (1)
- Against Exclusionary Gaelic Language Policy: A Response to Ó Giollagáin and Caimbeul (2022) (1)
- ‘New Speakers’ of Gaelic from Outside the UK (2017) (1)
- A New Policy for Ideological Change (2011) (0)
- Language attitudes in policy and planning (2012) (0)
- New speakers of Irish and identities (2020) (0)
- Support for the societal presence of minority languages and as symbols of identity: assessing the views of Irish and Galician student groups (2007) (0)
- Anthropology and Language in Europe: Setting the Context (2015) (0)
- Developing multilingual awareness amongst primary school children in Ireland: a case study (2009) (0)
- Gaelic and Identity: A Response to Iain MacKinnon (2022) (0)
- Special Issue: New Speakers of Minority Languages: The Challenging Opportunity [Guest Editors] (2015) (0)
- Speakerness, for what? – A response to the rejoinders (2022) (0)
- Special Issue: Language and Anthropology [Guest Editors] (2015) (0)
- Becoming a New Speaker of Irish (2020) (0)
- Look before you leap : bringing futures thinking to a Queensland state high school : proposing futures thinking for the education system (1997) (0)
- Acknowledgments (2013) (0)
- ¿Falas galego?: The effects of socio-political change on language attitudes and use in the Galician sociolinguistic context (2019) (0)
- Minority Languages (2020) (0)
- Morality and Ethics in Government Schools: The Dilemmas of a Christian Educator1 (2000) (0)
- New Speakers, New Paradigms? (2020) (0)
- Irish and Galician: bridging the divide (2012) (0)
- Evolution of Attitudes towards Irish and Galician (2011) (0)
- Rethinking the Sociolinguistics of Irish (2020) (0)
- Brexit: The impact on Scotland: Health and Wellbeing Edition (2018) (0)
- An anlysis of two bilingual communities: the Irish and Galician cases (2005) (0)
- Ciorcail Chomhrá – ‘Safe Spaces’ for the Cúpla Focal (2020) (0)
- Book Reviews (2010) (0)
- New Speakers and New Identities (2020) (0)
- Effects of Language Policies on Attitudes (2011) (0)
- New speaker parents as grassroots policy makers in contemporary Galicia: ideologies, management and practices (2019) (0)
- Galician-Portuguese and the Politics of Language in Contemporary Galicia (2020) (0)
- Acoustics and Speech Intelligibility in Multilingual Spaces (2013) (0)
- Cross-connection control to prevent backflow (1993) (0)
- Special Issue: Comparing ‘New Speakers’ Across Language Contexts: Mobility and Motivations [Guest Editors] (2018) (0)
- National, Official and Minoritised (2020) (0)
- Special Issue: New Speakers and processes of new speakerness across time and space [Guest Editors] (2015) (0)
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