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.
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 148 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
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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
