Bernadette started following the work of Nicola Bermingham.
Bernadette started following the work of Elisabeth Haidinger, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Institute of English Business Communication.
Bernadette started following the work of Philip McDermott, University of Ulster, Arts.
Faculty Member, Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies
Lecturer in Spanish and General Linguistics
School of Management and Languages
About
My research focuses on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality. Drawing on theoretical frameworks and concepts in the area of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language I examine these processes as they unfold in minority language contexts with a particular focus on the Irish and Galician cases. I am currently exploring the native-non-native speaker dichotomy and the concept of the 'new speaker' in these contexts. While my earlier studies looked mainly at indigenous minority languages, my more recent work incorporates issues surrounding service provision (including translation and interpreting) for speakers of migrant languages in Ireland and the UK. Apart from these active research areas I am also interested in general issues of language planning and policy, language rights and language ideologies.
Publications
O’ROURKE, B. Whose language is it? Struggles for language ownership in an Irish language classroom. (November 2011) Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 10 (5)
O’ROURKE, B. and RAMALLO, F. (2011) The native-non-native dichotomy in minority language contexts: Comparisons between Irish and Galician. Language Problems and Language Planning, 35/2
O’ROURKE, B. and HOGAN-BRUN, G. (in press 2012) Language Attitudes in Policy and Planning. In C. Chapelle (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.
O’ROURKE, B. 2011. Galician and Irish in the European Context: Attitudes towards Weak and Strong Minority Languages. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
O’ROURKE, B. 2011. Sustaining Minority Communities: The Case of Galician. In J. M. Kirk and D. P. Ó Baoill (eds) Sustaining Minority Language Development. Belfast Studies in Language, Culture and Politics, Vol. 20. Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland.
O’ROUKRE, B. 2011. Negotiating Multilingualism in an Irish School Context. In C. Hélot and M. Ó Laoire (eds.) Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom: Pedagogy of the Possible. Multilingual Matters, 105-125.
O’ROURKE, B. and CASTILLO, P. 2009. “Top-down” or “bottom-up” language policy: Public Service Interpreting in the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Spain. In R. de Pedro, I. Perez and C. Wilson (eds.) Interpreting and Translating in Public Service Settings. London: St. Jerome, 33-51.
O’ROURKE, B. 2009. Developing multilingual awareness amongst primary school children in Ireland: a case study. In D. Newby and H. Penz. Languages for social cohesion: Language education in a multilingual Europe. Graz: ECM
O’ROURKE, B. 2007. Support for the societal presence of minority languages and as symbols of identity: assessing the views of Irish and Galician student groups. In A. Pearson-Evans and A. Leahy (eds.) Intercultural Spaces. Language, Culture and Identity. Oxford: Peter Lang, 43-56.
O’ROURKE, B. 2007. ¿Falas galego?: The Effects of Socio-Political Change on Language Attitudes and Use in the Galician Sociolinguistic Context.Teanga,116-131.
O’ROUKRE, B. 2006. Language Contact between Galician and Spanish – Conflict or Harmony?: Young People’s Linguistic Attitudes in Contemporary Galicia. In C. Mar-Molinero and M. Stewart (eds.) Globalization and Language in the Spanish-speaking World: micro and macro perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 178-196.
O’ROURKE, B. 2005. Expressing Identity through Lesser-used Languages: Examples from the Irish and Galician Contexts. Language and Intercultural Communication (Politics, Plurilingualism and Linguistic Identity), 274-283.
O’ROURKE, B. 2003. Conflicting Values in Contemporary Galicia: Attitudes to ‘O Galego’ since Autonomy’, International Journal of Iberian Studies, Vol. 16 (1), 33-48.
O’Rourke, B. 2003. Irish and Galician: A Comparative Analysis of Minority Language Cases. In F. Dillane and R. Kelly (eds) New Voices in Irish Criticism. Dublin: Four Courts Press,136-146.
Contact Information
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