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在日常生活中扮演着重要的角色。这个项目将首次超越语言，探索盖尔身份是如何通过物质性：物体、人工制品和环境来表达的。这种跨学科研究的关键是“语言生态”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盖伊德人社区密切合作，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语的文化标志。运用最广泛的交流学术领域的最新想法和观点，学生将探索物体是如何被用来表达想法、情感、记忆、从属关系和身份的。从动态的角度看待盖尔语的过去、现在和未来，将特别关注年轻人在一个多语言的全球化世界中，在物理和数字领域谈判他们的盖尔语遗产。

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.