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| Titre : | God's Own Language ? : Attitudes to Irish, Then and Now (2001) |
| Auteurs : | Grace NEVILLE, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 26 n 2 2001) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 81-96 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Belief in the innate 'superiority' of the Irish language has often been identified among native speakers of that language. They advance a number of reasons for such claims to linguistic supremacy. Among these are its alleged superior ancestry as the first/earliest language in both the public and private spheres, as the language of God and of the saints, of Adam and Eve, the first parents, and of their own mother. Added to this was the conviction that Irish was an unsurpassable means of communication. Alongside these attitudes, especially from the nineteenth century onwards, however, a growing rejection of Irish can be traced. It was increasingly believed to be 'useless' in a world in which emigration to English-speaking countries offered an escape from poverty and oppression at home. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, such conflicting attitudes to Irish both positive and negative can still be identified, although they may take on new forms |
| Pays de publication : | France |
| Lieu de publication : | Villeneuve d'Ascq |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Grace Neville |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
