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...a measure of how language has coarsened in a generation or two. (Brown, 1973, pp. 21–2) A fortiori, Mackay Brown's point applies to Gaelic. To lose the language would be to lose not only the Gaels' sense of their own history and culture, which is conveyed in its oral and sung traditions, but also the meaning of places, the ‘character’ of landscapes. MacLean's distinction had been not only to conserve but to extend the ......

...2). The rise of the internet also provided scholars with new objects of study that had no material equivalent, the so-called ‘born-digital data’ (see Session 4). From the early 2000s, scholars engaged in the processes of creating and studying digital texts, images and sounds began to define their work as ‘digital humanities’. In the last decade, scholars have come...