Full 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.
Contents
Part 1Coupland and Alan R.Thomas. Part 2 Perspectives on Anglicization: the anglizisation of Wales, Colin Williams; language shift in Gwent, 1770-1981, W.T.R.Pryce. Part 3 Descriptive sketches: the phonetics and phonology of Cardiff English, Beverley Collins and Inger M.Mees; transcribed specimen of Cardiff English, Jack Windsor Lewis; the roots of Cardiff English, Jack Windsor Lewis; syntax and lexis in Glamorgan English, Jack Windsor Lewis; Port Talbot English, John H.Connolly; the pronunciation of English in Abercave, Paul Tench; the conservative English dialects of North Carmarthenshire, David Parry; the conservative English dialects of South Pembrokeshire, David Parry; accents of English in Wales, J.C.Wells. Part 4 Sociolinguistic processes: patterns of sociophonetic variation in the speech of Cardiff schoolchildren, Inger M.Mees; Welsh influence on children's English, Bob Morris Jones; "Standard Welsh English" - a variable semiotic, Nikolas Coupland; social meanings of Welsh English, Howard Giles.
