English in Wales : diversity, conflict, and change

Author(s)

• Coupland, Nikolas
• Thomas, Alan R. (Alan Richard)

Bibliographic Information

English in Wales : diversity, conflict, and change

edited by Nikolas Coupland in association with Alan R. Thomas

（Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 52）

Multilingual Matters, c1990

• pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This sociolinguistic perspective on Wales takes account of both principal languages, in contemporary life and in history. It traces the conflicts and mutual influences of the two languages in shaping the sociolinguistic character of Wales and traces the way in which it has simultaneously come to function, for many Welsh people, as a vehicle for cultural continuity, the means to an Anglo-Welsh identity. It brings together original descriptive and interpretive studies by eminent researchers from a varity of academic disciplines concerned with English in Wales - sociolinguistics, dialectology, geolinguistics, cultural history and social psychology. In a detailed study of Gwent the complex political cultural processes involved in the Anglicization of Wales are highlighted and in a series of community dialect sketches the extent of diversity within varieties of Welsh English is shown.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Nikolas Coupland and Alan R. Thomas: Introduction: Social and Linguistic Perspectives on English in Wales PART 1: Perspectives on Anglicisation 2. Colin H. Williams: The Anglicisation of Wales 3. W. T.R. Pryce: Language Shift in Gwent, c. 1770-1981 PART 2: Descriptive Sketches 4. Beverley Collins and Inger M. Mees: The Phonetics of Cardiff English 5. J. Windsor Lewis: Transcribed Specimen of Cardiff English 6. J. Windsor Lewis: The Roots of Cardiff English 7. J. Windsor Lewis: Syntax and Lexis in Glamorgan English 8. John H. Connolly: Port Talbot English 9. Paul Tench: The Pronunciation of English in Abercrave 10. David Parry: The Conservative English Dialects of North Carmarthenshire 11. David Parry: The Conservative English Dialects of South Pembrokeshire 12. J.C. Wells: Accents of English in Wates: A Postscript PART 3: Sociolinguistic Processes 13. Inger M. Mees: Patterns of Sociophonetic Variation in the Speech of Cardiff Schoolchildren 14. Bob Morris Jones: Welsh Influence on Children's English 15. Nikolas Coupland: 'Standard Welsh English': A Variable Semiotic 16. Howard Giles: Social Meanings of Welsh English

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Details

• NCID: BA10058215
• ISBN:
  • 1853590320
  • 1853590312
• LCCN: 88025856
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Clevedon [England] ; Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 295 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PE1771
  • DC19 : 427/9429
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English language -- Dialects -- Wales
  • LCSH : English language -- Foreign elements -- Welsh
  • LCSH : Welsh language -- Influence on English
  • LCSH : Wales -- Languages
  • LCSH : Languages in contact -- Wales
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0388721X