Cultar Duthchasach: Materialising Gaelic Cultures in Twenty-First Century Scotland

对于今天成千上万的苏格兰人来说，用苏格兰盖尔语交流是日常生活的重要组成部分。这是第一次，该项目将超越语言，探索盖尔人的身份是如何通过物质表达的：对象，人工制品和环境。这种跨学科研究的关键是“语言生态学”的创新概念：语言，地点和物质世界的相互作用。通过深入的民族志研究和收集，与苏格兰西北部幸存的Gàidhealtachds社区密切合作，学生将探索盖尔语生态，以识别和分析被认为是独特的盖尔文化标志。使用最新的想法和观点，从学术领域关注的通信在其最广泛的解释，学生将探索如何使用对象来表达思想，情感，记忆，隶属关系和身份。从语言的过去，现在和未来的动态角度来看，将特别关注年轻人在多语言，全球化的世界中，在物理和数字领域谈判盖尔语遗产。

For many thousands of Scots today, communicating in Scottish Gaelic plays a significant part of daily life. For the first time, this project will look beyond language to explore how Gaelic identities are expressed through materialities: objects, artefacts and environments. Crucial to this interdisciplinary study is the innovative concept of 'language ecology': the interactions of language, place and the material world. Through in-depth ethnographic research and collecting, working closely with communities in and connected to the surviving Gàidhealtachds in north-west Scotland, the student will explore Gaelic language ecologies to identify and analyse cultural markers considered distinctively Gaelic. Using recent ideas and perspectives from academic fields concerned with communication in its broadest interpretation, the student will explore how objects are used to express ideas, emotions, memories, affiliations and identities. Taking a dynamic perspective on the language's past, present and future, there will be a particular focus on young people's negotiating their Gaelic inheritance, in both physical and digital realms, in a multilingual, globalised world.