Wilson McLeod
Professor of Gaelic
- Celtic and Scottish Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3623
- Email: W.McLeod@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 4.35
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LD
Qualifications
BA (Haverford), JD (Harvard), MSc, PhD (Edinburgh)
Responsibilities & affiliations
Main administrative duties
- Director of Research, Celtic & Scottish Studies
- Course Organiser for Introduction to Gaelic Language and Culture, Gaelic 1A and Linguistics and the Gaelic Language
Undergraduate teaching
- The Celtic Languages: Decline and Revitalisation
- The Gaelic Languages: Modernisation and Standardisation
- Gaelic Identities and Sociolinguistics
- The Gaelic Novel
- The Gaelic Short Story
- Classical Gaelic Verse
- Irish Poetry, 1600-2000
Postgraduate teaching
- Gaelic Language Policy: Contemporary Challenges
- Gaelic Identities and Gàidhlig Sociolinguistics
- Language Shift and Language Revitalisation in the Gàidhealtachd
- Minority Languages in Europe
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Adam Dahmer: Language revitalisation and Gaelic tertiary education
Saul Farrell (School of History, Classics and Archaeology): The social, cultural and Ideological contribution of the Gaelic League to the ‘imagined community’ of the Irish nation-state, 1893-1922
Lisa MacDonald (Moray House School of Education): An t-ionnsachadh bòidheach: exploring intentionality in Gaelic 0-5 education
Niamh Nic Leoid: Code-switching in young Irish speakers in the Gaeltacht
Chris Oates: Social usage of Gaelic in Glasgow and its capacity to support Gaelic revitalisation
Ann Thirkell (Moray House School of Education): A study of the pedagogical approaches used by Gaelic-medium primary teachers to develop Gaelic language in Gaelic-medium education
Edit Wenelius: Prepositional relative clause constructions in Scottish Gaelic: Variation and motivation
Charles Wilson: Geolinguistic variation in Hebridean Gaelic: The case of nominal morphology
Research summary
- language policy and planning issues in Scotland and internationally;
- language legislation and language rights;
- the cultural politics of Scottish and Irish Gaelic literature from the late medieval period to the present day.
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Cànan & Cultar / Language and Culture: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 10
(280 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Foilsiú, míniú agus aistriú Gaeilge na hAlban in Éirinn
(11 pages)
In:
ComharTaighde, vol. 6, pp. 1-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18669/ct.2020.04
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Gaelic in Scotland: Policies, Movements, Ideologies
(456 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Classifying Gaelic-medium education: Language use in pre-school, primary school and secondary school settings
(24 pages)
Research output: › Conference contribution (Published) -
Conceptions and discourses of linguistic justice: Some illustrations from the Scottish context
In:
Sociolinguistica, vol. 33, pp. 45-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2019-0004
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The Highest Apple/An Ubhal as Àirde: An Anthology of Scottish Gaelic Literature
(800 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
The nature of minority languages: Insights from Scotland
(14 pages)
In:
Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, vol. 38, pp. 141-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2018-0034
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
New speakers of Gaelic: A historical and policy perspective
(15 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Leasachadh Corpas na Gàidhlig: Work Stream 4: LEACAG Project Assessment
(70 pages)
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published) -
Stiùireadh Gràmair LEACAG
(27 pages)
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published)