Here's a clip of the #Welsh #language being mocked in the #horror #film The Old Dark House back in 1932: "Even Welsh ought not sound like that." It seems exceptional that #languageattitudes towards Welsh have remained as positive as they are (Lee 2016) despite the sort of long-lived casual overt stigmatization that this clip suggests.
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #languageideology #languagecontact #Wales #England #UK
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my question: is there any research out there that looks at the effect of prioritising english speakers in regions where the majority language *isn't* english. maybe something on the effect of language attitudes?
thanks pals!
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #welsh #cymraeg #LanguageAttitudes
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sociolinguists!
so, there's a community that features a minority of english monolinguals and a majority of bilinguals who *don't* use english day-to-day (they use welsh, or gaelic, or something else)
but! during community discussions (for example), english is prioritised over the main language used by the local bilinguals (perhaps because, beyond town or village, english is the majority language, and has the most status)
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #welsh #cymraeg #LanguageAttitudes
Joshua McNeill
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