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
- The Gaelic Autobiography
- 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
Róisín McKelvey: The role of language in UK migration policy
Kirstie MacLeod: ‘A’ togail na Gàidhlig’: Gaelic in families with young children
Bobbie Nolan: Language and identity among Irish migrants in San Francisco, Philadelphia and London, 1850-1920
Ben Ó Ceallaigh: The Irish economic crisis and the sociolinguistic vitality of Gaeltacht regions 2008-2016
Alastair Scouller: The Gaelic dialect of Colonsay
Charles Wilson: A comparative study of morphosyntactic structures in modern Scottish Gaelic
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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Classifying Gaelic-medium education: Language use in pre-school, primary school and secondary school settings
(24 pages)
Research output: › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press) -
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 nature of minority languages: Insights from Scotland
(14 pages)
In:
Multilingua, 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) -
New Speakers of Gaelic from Outside the UK
(60 pages)
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published) -
Dialectal diversity in contemporary Gaelic: Perceptions, discourses and responses
(29 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Leasachadh Corpas na Gàidhlig (LEACAG) – Work stream 2.1: Consultation with professional users to identify key grammatical issues
(41 pages)
Research output: › Commissioned report (Accepted/In press) -
Gaelic in contemporary Scotland: Contradictions, challenges and strategies
(23 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)