The Use of Welsh : a contribution to sociolinguistics

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The Use of Welsh : a contribution to sociolinguistics

edited by Martin J. Ball

(Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 36)

Multilingual Matters, c1988

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 320-331

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

Welsh is perhaps the most vigorous of the surviving Celtic languages, and has undoubtedly attracted the most modern linguistic research. It is surprising therefore that, while publications on Welsh syntax and phonology have appeared in recent years, no investigation into the sociolinguistics of the language has been available. The linguistic situation in Wales is a complex one, and Welsh as a minority language has not found the establishment and maintenance of a standard form an easy task. Differences between official and literary forms of the language are then quite marked, and many Welsh speakers have not been greatly exposed to these standardising factors. What we find, therefore, are patterns of marked variation in language use. This book explores these patterns, looking at them from the linguistic viewpoint - variation at different levels of language, and from the sociolinguistic viewpoint - regional and social varieties. Also examined are children's speech, important for the future of the language, and the theoretical problems of integrating varying patterns of language use into grammatical description.

Table of Contents

PREFACE PART I: LINGUISTIC VARIATION AND WELSH I. Martin J. Ball: Introduction 2. Martin J. Ball: Accounting for Linguistic Variation: Dialectology 3. Martin J. Ball: Accounting for Linguistic Variation: Sociolinguistics PART ll: VARIATION AND LEVELS OF LANGUAGE 4. Alan R. Thomas: Studying Lexical Geography 5. Martin J. Ball: The Study of Pronunciation Patterns 6. Martin J. Ball: Variation in Grammar 7 Martin J. Ball: Variation in the Use of lnitial Consonant Mutations PART Ill: STUDIES OF THE USE OF WELSH 8. Sian Elizabeth Thomas: A Study of Calediad in the Upper Swansea Valley 9. Glyn E. Jones: Some Features of The Welsh of Breconshire 10. Anna E. Robens: Age-Related Variation in The Welsh Dialect of Pwllheli PART IV: NON-GEOGRAPHICAL VARIETIES OF WELSH 11. Dafydd Glyn Jones: Literary Welsh 12. Berwyn Prys Jones: Official Welsh 13. Martin J. Ball, Tweli Griffiths, Glyn E. Jones: Broadcast Welsh 14. Cennard Davies: Cymraeg Byw PART V: CHILDREN'S USE OF WELSH 15. Wynford BellinL The Development of Pronunciation 16. Glyn E. Jones: The Pronouns of Address in Welsh 17. Lynfa Hatton: The Development of the Nasal Mutation in the Speech of Schoolchildren 18. Sian Munro: Phonological Disorders in Welsh-Speaking Children PART VI: THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS 19. Robert Owen Jones: Language Variation and Social Stratification: Linguistic Change in Progress 20. Martin J. Ball: Variation in Mutation - Where do the Variable Rules Go?

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