The Use of Welsh : a contribution to sociolinguistics
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The Use of Welsh : a contribution to sociolinguistics
（Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 36）
Multilingual Matters, c1988
- : hard
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 320-331
Includes index
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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