Browsing Gaeilge by Author "Smith-Christmas, Cassie"
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11 Child agency and home language maintenance
Smith-Christmas, Cassie (De Grouton Mouton, 2020)[No abstract available] -
Conceptualising successful intergenerational transmission in terms of saibhreas: Family language support in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht
Smith-Christmas, Cassie; Ruiséal, Orlaith (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2022-04-14)This chapter proposes the saibhreas model (‘richness’ in Irish) as a means to explore caregivers’ goals in intergenerational language transmission. The chapter argues that although the field of Family Language Policy (‘FLP’) ... -
Critical perspectives on language and kinship in multilingual families by Lyn Wright (Book Review)
Smith-Christmas, Cassie (Wiley, 2021-04-12)[No abstract available] -
'Do Sheans': Children's agency in integrating Scottish Gaelic and Irish into 'Happy Families'
Smith-Christmas, Cassie (Cló Léann na Gaeilge, 2023-03-16)[No abstract] -
Double-voicing and rubber ducks: the dominance of English in the imaginative play of two bilingual sisters
Smith-Christmas, Cassie (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020-05-05)Through analysis of a video recording of two bilingual siblings playing with rubber ducks, this article explores the concept that imaginative play can serve as a potential site for language shift. The article argues that ... -
How to turn the tide: the policy implications emergent from comparing a ‘post-vernacular FLP’ to a ‘pro-Gaelic FLP’
Smith-Christmas, Cassie; NicLeòid, Sìleas L. (Springer Verlag, 2020-02-14)This paper compares the sociolinguistic trajectory of a latent speaker mother to that of a new speaker mother. Drawing on Shandler (TDR 48(1):19 43, 2004), it introduces the term post-vernacular FLP as a means to ... -
‘Our cat has the power’: the polysemy of a third language in maintaining the power/solidarity equilibrium in family interactions
Smith-Christmas, Cassie (Routledge, 2021-01-30)This article examines how power and solidarity in family relations are negotiated along linguistic lines, and in particular, the role of a third language in this negotiation process. It takes as its case study a transnational ... -
‘Right an turn agadsa’: The reflexivity between language socialisation and child agency in exploring ‘success’ in FLP
Smith-Christmas, Cassie (Elsevier, 2022-09-09)The article explores the mutual relationship—or reflexivity— between language socialisation and child agency. It discusses two respective models developed to: (a) better theorise successful language acquisition in a ‘Family ... -
Using a 'Family Language Policy' lens to explore the dynamic and relational nature of child agency
Smith-Christmas, Cassie (Wiley, 2021-06-01)This article contributes to a dialogue between childhood studies and the sociolinguistic subfield ‘Family Language Policy’ (‘FLP’). The article argues that the two fields provide complementary vantage points for exploring ...