Sociolinguistics in Wales

Mercedes Durham is Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at Cardiff University, UK. Her research includes work on the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence, and Welsh and Scottish dialects of English. Jonathan Morris is Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Lecturer in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, UK. His research focuses on sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism and second language acquisition in the Welsh context.

• PART I: Introduction.- Chapter 1: An Overview of Sociolinguistics in Wales.- PART II: Welsh.- Chapter 2: Age variation and language change in Welsh: auxiliary deletion and possessive constructions.- Chapter 3: Behavioural Economics and minority language e-services—the case of WelsH.- Chapter 4: A standard for language? Policy, territory and constitutionality in a devolving Wales.- PART III: Welsh English.- Chapter 5: Variation and change in the grammar of Welsh English.- Chapter 6: The perceptual dialectology of Wales from the border.- Chapter 7: Changing attitudes towards the Welsh English accent: A view from Twitter.- PART IV: Bilingual and Multilingual contact in Wales.- Chapter 8: “Mae pobl monolingual yn minority”: Factors favouring the production of code-switching by Welsh-English bilingual speakers.- Chapter 9: The role of linguistic background on sound variation in Welsh and Welsh English.- Chapter 10: ‘I heard lots of different languages’: Layered worlds of separate and flexible bilingualism in Cardiff.