The Welsh Language: A Pocket Guide: A History (University of Wales - Pocket Guide) - Softcover

Davies, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 070831516X ISBN 13: 9780708315163

Verlag: University of Wales Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

This accessible and comprehensive introduction traces the development of the Welsh language from its origins, which extend back at least 2,500 years within Britain, to the present day, when about half a million people speak Welsh.

Janet Davies offers a broad historical survey, looking at Welsh-language culture from sixth-century heroic poetry to television and pop music in the late twentieth century. She considers the public status of the language from the Act of Union with England of 1536 to the enactment of the Welsh Language Act in 1993, compares the status of Welsh with that of other minority languages throughout Europe and provides a brief guide to pronunciation, dialect and grammar.

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Janet Davies is a freelance researcher and writer who is based in Cardiff. Her former positions include research officer at the Mercator Media Centre in Aberystwyth.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 070831516X
• ISBN 13: 9780708315163
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar