Langue et identité : une enquête sociolinguistique menée dans huit écoles galloises portant sur les attitudes envers le gallois et l’anglais
Based on a questionnaire survey carried out among young Welsh speakers in several regions of Wales, the article provides a brief overview of the prevailing perceptions of the Welsh language and its future. What emerges is a clearly more unfavourable image among non-speakers than among speakers of We...
| Published in: | La Bretagne Linguistique |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | French |
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Université de Bretagne Occidentale – UBO
1998-04-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lbl/9879 |
| Summary: | Based on a questionnaire survey carried out among young Welsh speakers in several regions of Wales, the article provides a brief overview of the prevailing perceptions of the Welsh language and its future. What emerges is a clearly more unfavourable image among non-speakers than among speakers of Welsh. But this divide is also compounded by social contrasts: young people from working-class backgrounds are more likely to be monolingual English speakers than those from middle-class backgrounds. This fuels a certain lack of interest in Welsh among them, along with a rejection of standard English, the variety of the dominant classes. |
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| ISSN: | 1270-2412 2727-9383 |