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Friday, 31 March 2017

Bernie O'Rourke

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Kathryn Jones is a member of the COST Action New Speakers network, from Welsh Centre for Language Planning.

Here, she gives us a brief overview of her research on new speakers:

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Bernie O'Rourke

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Bernie O’Rourke is Professor in Spanish and Linguistics at Heriot-Watt University. Her research focuses on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality. Drawing on theoretical frameworks and concepts in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, she examines these processes as they unfold in minority language contexts with a particular focus on the Irish and Galician cases. She is Chair of the COST Action New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges.