Language and Community in the Nineteenth Century
Distributed for University of Wales Press
This is the third volume in a pioneering series of authoritative studies on the social history of the Welsh language. It contains fourteen chapters, all written by acknowledged experts in the field, together with many explanatory maps and figures. The volume seeks to make a contribution to our understanding of the complex relationship between language and community in the long nineteenth century. The linguistic geography of Wales is placed within the context of the Celtic language family and the broader central European experience.
The projected series on 'A Social History of the Welsh Language' - the fruits of the second major research project of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies of the University of Wales - will interest and intrigue the general public as well as specialists in the field and help readers to familiarise themselves with the history of a language which, over the centuries, has been an integral part of the everyday life of the Welsh people and of their sense of nationhood.
“. . . another impressive volume and another major contribution to our understanding of the history of the Welsh language.” –Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
“This book will become required reading for historians of the principality.” –Social History Bulletin
“. . . a very important contribution to Welsh social history, and to historical sociolinguistics and comparative linguistics geography in general . . .” –Journal of Sociolinguistics
List of Maps and Figures
List of Contributors
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction Geraint H. Jenkins
1. Language Areas in North-East Wales c.1800-1911 W. T. R. Pryce
2. The Welsh Language in Montgomeryshire c.1800-1914 David Llewelyn Jones
3. Language and Community in South-West Wales c.1800-1914 Russell Davies
4. The Welsh Language in the Anthracite Coalfield c.1870-1914 Ioan Matthews
5. The Welsh Language in the Valleys of Glamorgan c.1800-1914 Philip N. Jones
6. The Welsh Language in Cardiff c.1800-1914 Owen John Thomas
7. The Welsh Language in Industrial Monmouthshire c.1800-1901 Sian Rhiannon Williams
8. The Welsh Language in England c.1800-1914 Emrys Jones
9. The Welsh Language and Welsh Identity in a Pennsylvanian Community William D. Jones
10. The Welsh Language in Patagonia Robert Owen Jones
11. A Social History and Geography of Gaelic in Scotland 1806-1901 Charles W. J. Withers
12. Language and Society in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Máirtín Ó Murchú
13. The Breton Language in the Nineteenth Century Rhisiart Hincks
14. Language and Society in the Nineteenth Century: Some Central-European Comparisons R. J. W. Evans
Index
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