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PublisherGwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press

ISBN-101783161787

ISBN-139781783161782

eBay Product ID (ePID)204221134

Product Key Features

Number of Pages720 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLet's Do Our Best for the Ancient Tongue : the Welsh Language in the Twentieth Century

SubjectCeltic Languages, Europe / General

Publication Year2015

FeaturesRevised Edition,New Edition

TypeLanguage Course

Subject AreaForeign Language Study, History

AuthorMari A. Williams

SeriesA Social History of the Welsh Laser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight38.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsAn authoritative and thorough analysis of the fortunes of the Welsh language in the most tumultuous period of its history. Twenty-one chapters discuss not only the numerical and territorial decline of Welsh but also its struggle for official recognition and its role in a wide variety of social domains. Of all the memorable phrases coined in the twentieth century, none has had greater resonance for the Welsh speaker than Tynged yr Iaith (The Fate of the Language), and this volume provides a stimulating commentary on the processes of linguistic change, decay and revival experienced by the oldest spoken language in Britain. The fruit 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 familiarize 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 their sense of nationhood. ********************************** Readers interested in the story of Welsh and it is a dramatic story, with heroes and villains, climaxes, anti-climaxes, tragedy and comedy all interwoven will find the chapters in this volume immensely readable and admirably knitted together by careful editing.Gerald Morgan, A review from www.gwales.com, with the permission of the Welsh Books Council.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal491.7

Table Of ContentThe Fortunes of the Welsh Language 1900 - 2000: Introduction - Geraint H. Jenkins and Mari A. Williams The Welsh Language 1921 - 1991: A Geolinguistic Perspective - John W. Aitchison and Harold Carter The Welsh Language and the Geographical Imagination 1918 - 1950 - Pyrs Gruffudd Women and the Welsh Language in the Industrial Valleys of South Wales 1914 - 1945 - Mari A. Williams The Welsh Language Movement in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: An Exercise in Quiet Revolutions - Marion Loffler The Legal Status of the Welsh Language in the Twentieth Century - Gwilym Prys Davies The Attitude of Political Parties towards the Welsh Language - J. Graham Jones Journalism and the Welsh Language - Robert Smith Broadcasting and the Welsh Language - Robert Smith The British State and Welsh-Language Education 1914 - 1991 - W. Gareth Evans The Welsh Language and Religion - D. Densil Morgan Welsh Literature since 1914 - R. Gerallt Jones The Riches of the Past? Recording Welsh Dialects - Beth Thomas The War of the Tongues: Early Anglo-Welsh Responses to Welsh Literary Culture - John Harris The History of the Welsh Language Society 1962 - 1998 - Dylan Phillips The Welsh Language Movement and Bilingualism: What Can Local Organizations Achieve? - Marion Loffler We'll Keep a Welcome? The Effects of Tourism on the Welsh Language - Dylan Phillips The Welsh Language and Agricultural Communities in the Twentieth Century - Garth Hughes, Peter Midmore and Anne-Marie Sherwood The Welsh Language and Local Authority Planning in Gwynedd 1974 - 1995 - Delyth Morris The Other Celtic Languages in the Twentieth Century - Glanville Price Lesser-used Languages and Linguistic Minorities in Europe since 1918: An Overview - Robin Okey Restoring the Language- Colin H. Williams

SynopsisThis book brings together the foremost experts in the history of the Welsh language to trace its trajectory through the twentieth century. Contributors discuss not only the numerical and territorial decline of Welsh but also its struggle for official recognition, and the different roles it has played (and continues to play) in social, regional, and class domains. Welsh speakers have long been concerned with the fate of the language, and this volume puts that problem, and its integral relationship with education, work, and everyday life in Wales, into a broad, productive context. This new edition offers a fresh preface that brings the work into the present., An authoritative and thorough analysis of the fortunes of the Welsh language in the most tumultuous period of its history., An authoritative and thorough analysis of the fortunes of the Welsh language in the most tumultuous period of its history. Twenty-one chapters discuss not only the numerical and territorial decline of Welsh but also its struggle for official recognition and its role in a wide variety of social domains. Of all the memorable phrases coined in the twentieth century, none has had greater resonance for the Welsh speaker than Tynged yr Iaith (The Fate of the Language), and this volume provides a stimulating commentary on the processes of linguistic change, decay and revival experienced by the oldest spoken language in Britain.The fruit 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 familiarize 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 their sense of nationhood.