EAN: 9783319767130

IRISH TRAVELLER LANGUAGE - MARIA RIEDER GEBUNDEN

This book explores the Irish Traveller community through an ethnographic and folk linguistic
lens. It sheds new light on Irish Traveller language  commonly referred to as Gammon or Cant 
an integral part of the community's cultural heritage that has long been viewed as a form of
secret code. The author addresses Travellers' metalinguistic and ideological reflections on
their language use  providing deep insights into the culture and values of community members 
and into their perceived social reality in wider society. In doing so  she demonstrates that
its interrelationship with other cultural elements means that the language is in a constant
flux  and by analysing speakers' experiences of language in action  provides a dynamic view of
language use. The book takes the reader on a journey through oral history  language naming
practices  ideologies of languageness and structure  descriptions of language use and contexts
negotiations of the 'authentic' Cant  and Cant as 'identity'.Based on a two-year ethnographic
fieldwork project in a Traveller Training Centre in the West of Ireland  this book will appeal
to students and scholars of sociolinguistics  language in society  language ideology  folk
linguistics  minority communities and languages  and cultural and linguistic anthropology.

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