Work on Scottish Gaelic and language death; Language Death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect
Academic background
Alma mater
Connecticut College (BA)
University of Michigan (MA, PhD)
Academic work
Discipline
Linguist, anthropologist
Sub-discipline
Celtic studies
Language death
Institutions
Bryn Mawr College
University of Pennsylvania
Nancy Currier Dorian (1936–April 24, 2024) was an American linguist who carried out research into the decline of the East Sutherland dialect of Scottish Gaelic for over 40 years, particularly in the villages of Brora, Golspie and Embo. Due to their isolation from other Gaelic-speaking communities, these East Sutherland villages presented a good opportunity to study language death. Dorian's study is possibly the longest such study in the field. She was considered "a prime authority" on language death.[1]Language Death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect, her study into the decline of Gaelic in East Sutherland, is considered "the first major monograph"[2] on language death. According to linguist Joan Argenter, Dorian's name "is well known to scholars working in" several areas of linguistics.[3]
Nancy Currier Dorian (1936–April 24, 2024) was an American linguist who carried out research into the decline of the East Sutherland dialect of Scottish...
relevance of speaker types in cases of language shift was first noted by NancyDorian, who coined the term semi-speaker to refer to those speakers of Sutherland...
Harewood married actress Nancy Ann McCurry on February 14, 1979. The couple have two children, Olivia Ruth and John Dorian. "Show Me (One More Time)"...
following World War II had impacted the local dialect's viability, when NancyDorian started studying the dialect in 1963, there were still more than 200...
communities to be found on the east coast of Scotland, as discovered by NancyDorian in the early 1960s, and there are still some native speakers of the East...
because it draws attention to the power differential between languages. NancyDorian, Kathryn A. Davis, and Prem Phyak have argued that there is a "Western...
(focussing on Applecross Gaelic) published by the Helmut Buske Verlag 1978 NancyDorian East Sutherland Gaelic published by the Dublin Institute for Advanced...
Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death, ed. NancyDorian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1989), pp. 103-116. Elizabeth...
counter-productive slogans such as "Give us authenticity or give us death!" NancyDorian has pointed out that conservative attitudes toward loanwords and grammatical...
Opera Digest Award as Dorian for "Outstanding Villainess: Daytime" in 1992. The character of Dorian Cramer was originated by Nancy Pinkerton on April 19...
Daniel Dennett – Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology NancyDorian – Language Death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect Timothy...
and Nancy both graduated from JP Stevens High School and became the first siblings inducted into the school's Hall of Honor." "How Trucker-Girl Nancy Shevell...
John Pearson RJ King Stella Tennant & Peter Marino Raquel Zimmermann & Dorian Reeves Amanda Murphy Ethan James Green Meghan Collison Frederik Meijnen...
of DFA Records. The band comprises Murphy (vocals, various instruments), Nancy Whang (synthesizer, keyboards, vocals), Pat Mahoney (drums), Tyler Pope...
"These Boots are Made for Walkin'", Hazlewood suggested to Nancy Sinatra, "you can't sing like Nancy Nice Lady any more. You have to sing for the truckers"...
actress. Pinkerton is perhaps best known as the original actress to play Dr. Dorian Lord on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1973 to 1977, a...
Lucas Hedges, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Christina Jackson, Michael Cherrie, Dorian Missick, Amirah Vann, André Holland, Terrence Howard Irish Wish Netflix...
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