{"id":105,"date":"2011-02-20T14:37:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T19:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blogs\/lx340s11\/?p=105"},"modified":"2023-04-29T21:26:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:26:28","slug":"reading-for-w-223-f-225-mccloskey-2007-zepeda-hill-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/2011\/02\/20\/reading-for-w-223-f-225-mccloskey-2007-zepeda-hill-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading for W 2\/23 &amp; F 2\/25: McCloskey (2007), Zepeda &amp; Hill (1991)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this week&#8217;s class meetings, please read the following two articles, both of which can be downloaded from the &#8220;Readings&#8221; section of this website:<\/p>\n<p>McCloskey, James. 2007. Irish as a world language. In <em>Why Irish?<\/em>, B. Conchubhar\u00c2\u00a0and B. Buachalla (eds). Syracuse: Arlen House \/ Syracuse University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Zepeda, Ofelia &amp; Jane H. Hill. 1991. The condition of Native American languages in the United States. <em>Diogenes<\/em> 153: 45-65.<\/p>\n<p>Both readings describe efforts to revitalize endangered languages (in Ireland and the United States, respectively), as well as the sorts of difficulties that such efforts often encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Note:  the McCloskey article repeatedly refers to the Irish\u00c2\u00a0<em>Gaeltacht<\/em> communities.  These are districts in Ireland where the government has officially recognized that Irish is the predominant language (i.e., the language spoken at home).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this week&#8217;s class meetings, please read the following two articles, both of which can be downloaded from the &#8220;Readings&#8221; section of this website: McCloskey, James. 2007. Irish as a world language. In Why Irish?, B. Conchubhar\u00c2\u00a0and B. Buachalla (eds). Syracuse: Arlen House \/ Syracuse University Press. Zepeda, Ofelia &amp; Jane H. Hill. 1991. The &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/2011\/02\/20\/reading-for-w-223-f-225-mccloskey-2007-zepeda-hill-1991\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Reading for W 2\/23 &amp; F 2\/25: McCloskey (2007), Zepeda &amp; Hill (1991)&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx340s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}