Bhreathnach, Úna
ORCID: 0000-0002-6427-2633
(2025)
Term planning in a lesser-used EU language. The Irish case.
In: Resi, Rossella and Steurs, Frieda, (eds.)
Handbook of Terminology Volume 4. Terminology planning in Europe.
John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 481-496.
ISBN 9789027244437
Abstract
This chapter considers the current state of terminology planning for Irish. In it the unusual and paradoxical sociolinguistic situation of Irish — a symbolically important and often learned language in a bilingual country, where community language transmission is in decline — is summarised, and the consequent implications for corpus development and terminology domains are examined. The thorny questions of term acceptance, term implantation, and in vivo term creation are discussed and the main structures for terminology planning — Foras na Gaeilge, An Coiste Téarmaíochta, Gaois, and Rannóg an Aistriúcháin — presented. A section is devoted to the transformative effect of official language status in the EU since 2007, and the terminology structures created to support that status.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Irish language, terminology planning, lesser-used languages, EU official language status, language planning, code-switching |
| Subjects: | Humanities > Irish language Humanities > Linguistics |
| DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > Fiontar agus Scoil na Gaeilge |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins |
| Official URL: | https://benjamins.com/catalog/hot.4 |
| Copyright Information: | Author |
| ID Code: | 31720 |
| Deposited On: | 22 Oct 2025 10:50 by Gordon Kennedy . Last Modified 22 Oct 2025 10:50 |
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