Charlotte Rawstorne Charlotte.Selleck@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics
‘We’re not fully Welsh’: Hierarchies of belonging and ‘new’ speakers of Welsh
Selleck, Charlotte LR
Authors
Contributors
Cassie Smith-Christmas
Editor
Noel O Murchada
Editor
Michael Hornsby
Editor
Mairead Moriaty
Editor
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.
Citation
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 |
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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Peer Reviewed | Not Peer Reviewed |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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