This article analyses narratives presented by teenage Irish‐speakers about encounters between new speakers of Irish and locals in Gaeltacht (traditionally Irish‐speaking) areas. It demonstrates how two conflicting ideologies of legitimate language promoted by the state in the establishment and maintenance of Irish as ‘the national language’ alienate young new speakers of Irish and young Gaeltacht‐based Irish‐speakers from each other and from the language by construing the Gaeltacht as a resource for the nation, generating unrealistic expectations from new speakers and corresponding resentment from their Gaeltacht peers. The analysis of this case contributes to wider debates about the impact of language revitalisation policies on young people, and explores the tension that may arise between the aim of increasing the number of a language's speakers and the desire to retain its traditional functions in the communities where it has been best maintained.

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住宿还是拒绝？青少年对讲传统爱尔兰语和新讲爱尔兰语之间的紧张关系的经验

本文分析了爱尔兰青少年演讲者关于爱尔兰新演讲者与Gaeltacht（传统上讲爱尔兰语）地区当地人之间相遇的叙述。它说明了在建立和维护爱尔兰语作为“国家语言”的过程中，国家所倡导的两种合法语言意识形态之间的冲突，如何使爱尔兰语的年轻新演讲者和盖尔塔赫特语的年轻爱尔兰语演讲者彼此之间以及与该语言的理解相互疏远。盖尔塔赫特（Gaeltacht）作为国家的一种资源，引起了新演讲者的不切实际的期望，并引起了盖尔塔赫特（Gaeltacht）同行的不满。对这种情况的分析有助于就语言振兴政策对年轻人的影响进行更广泛的辩论，并探讨在增加语言数量的目标之间可能出现的紧张关系。