Author: William John HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Wales and the Welsh in English Literature
Author: William John HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A History of Modern Wales 1536-1990
Author: Philip JenkinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131787269X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Rich in detail but vigorous, authoritative and unsentimental, A History of Modern Wales is a comprehensive and unromanticised examination of Wales as it was and is. It stresses both the long-term continuities in Welsh history, and also the significant regional differences within the principality.
Welsh English
Author: Heli PaulastoPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 150150035X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive, research-based description of the development, structure, and use of Welsh English, a contact-induced variety of English spoken in the British Isles. Present-day accents and dialects of Welsh English are the combined outcome of historical language shift from Welsh to English, continued bilingualism, intense contacts between Wales and England, and multicultural immigration. As a result, Welsh English is a distinctive, regionally and sociolinguistically diverse variety, whose status is not easily categorized. In addition to existing research, the present volume utilizes a wide range of spoken corpus data gathered from across Wales in order to describe the phonology, lexis, and grammar of the variety. It includes discussion of sociolinguistic and cultural contexts, and of ongoing change in Welsh English. The place that Welsh English occupies in relation to other Englishes in the Inner and Outer Circles is also analysed. The book is accessible to the non-specialist, but of particular use to scholars, teachers, and students interested in English in Wales, Britain, and the world. It provides an unparelleled resource on this long-standing and vibrant variety.
A Dictionary Of The Welsh Language
Author: William Owen PughePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Writing Welsh History
Author: Huw PrycePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192692321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Writing Welsh History is the first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years. By analysing and contextualizing a wide range of historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, it opens new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh - and thus on the use of the past to articulate national and other identities. The study's broad chronological scope serves to highlight important continuities in interpretations of Welsh history. One enduring preoccupation is Wales's place in Britain. Down to the twentieth century it was widely held that the Welsh were an ancient people descended from the original inhabitants of Britain whose history in its fullest sense ended with Edward I's conquest of Wales in 1282-4, their history thereafter being regarded as an attenuated appendix. However, Huw Pryce shows that such master narratives, based on medieval sources and focused primarily on the period down to 1282, were part of a much larger and more varied historiographical landscape. Over the past century the thematic and chronological range of Welsh history writing has expanded significantly, notably in the unprecedented attention given to the modern period, reflecting broader trends in an increasingly internationalized historical profession as well as the influence of social, economic, and political developments in Wales and elsewhere.
Catalogue of Printed Literature in the Welsh Department
Author: Cardiff Free LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, Welsh
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A sketch of the history of the Welsh Language and Literature. Reprinted separately from Charles Knight's "English Cyclopaedia.".
Author: Thomas WattsEnglish in Wales
Author: Nikolas CouplandPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853590313
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book 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.
Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales
Author: Sarah PrescottPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786837234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Examines Welsh writing in English in the context of critical debates concerning the rise of cultural nationalism and the ‘invention’ of Great Britain as a nation in the eighteenth century. This study investigates the ways in which Anglophone literature from and about Wales imagines the nation and its culture in a range of genres.
English Is a Welsh Language - Television's Crisis in Wales
Author: Geraint Talfan DaviesPublisher: Institute of Welsh Affairs
ISBN: 1904773427
Category : Television broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
17 personal statements by people who have contributed to broadcasting in English for Wales. As the UK government decides on the future of public service broadcasting, this book reminds us that television's mirror to the Welsh nation must not be further clouded, let alone discarded.