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‘We’re not fully Welsh’: Hierarchies of belonging and ‘new’ speakers of Welsh

Selleck, Charlotte LR

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Charlotte Rawstorne Charlotte.Selleck@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics



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Cassie Smith-Christmas
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Noel O Murchada
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Michael Hornsby
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Mairead Moriaty
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Abstract

This chapter seeks to problematise the concept of the ‘new’ and ‘learner’ speaker from the standpoint of a situated, ethnographic analysis and in doing so, draws on research conducted in two contrasting secondary schools in south-west Wales: an English-medium school and a designated Welsh-medium school. The focus in this chapter lies in Ysgol Ardwyn1, an English-medium school where only 12 per cent of students report speaking Welsh as first language or to a corresponding standard, and where approximately 88 per cent of the students can therefore be considered as ‘new’ or ‘learner’ speakers of Welsh. The intention is to understand how students at this English-medium school orientate to, contest, and re-define what it means to be ‘Welsh’ and ‘English’ and how they construct their own legitimacy as individuals, as language users and as speakers of a minority language.

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Selleck, C. L. (2018). ‘We’re not fully Welsh’: Hierarchies of belonging and ‘new’ speakers of Welsh. In C. Smith-Christmas, N. O Murchada, M. Hornsby, & M. Moriaty (Eds.), New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices (45-65). (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57558-6

Acceptance Date Dec 1, 2017
Online Publication Date Dec 1, 2017
Publication Date Jan 1, 2018
Deposit Date Oct 31, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Pages 45-65
Edition 1
Book Title New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices
Chapter Number 3
ISBN 9781137575579
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57558-6
Keywords Bilingualism; Wales; language ideologies; language revitalisation; sociolinguistics; minority languages
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/877046
Publisher URL https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137575579

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