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Language Revitalisation Models in Minority Language Contexts
Tensions between Ideologies of Authenticity and Anonymity
in Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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Bernadette O'Rourke
Bernadette O'Rourke
Heriot-Watt University b.m.a.o'rourke@hw.ac.uk
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This article looks at the historicisation of the native speaker and ideologies of authenticity and anonymity in Europe's language revitalisation movements. It focuses specifically on the case of Irish in the Republic of Ireland and examines how the native speaker ideology and the opposing ideological constructs of authenticity and anonymity filter down to the belief systems and are discursively produced by social actors on the ground. For this I draw on data from ongoing fieldwork in the Republic of Ireland, drawing on interviews with a group of Irish language enthusiasts located outside the officially designated Irish-speaking Gaeltacht.