1,405 research outputs found
I Remember piece in which author William Welsh recounts the wooden rowboat his
No full textI Remember piece in which author William Welsh recounts the wooden rowboat his father built in 1957 for use at the family cottage in Boothbay Harbor
Audiences' willingness to participate in Welsh-language media
No full textPhDContemporary media audiences expect to be able to interact with content, but in a minority language context, audience participation presents challenges related to audiences’ linguistic confidence. This thesis focuses on Wales, where media producers have suggested that audiences are often reluctant to interact with broadcast and online content in Welsh. To begin to understand this unwillingness, and how it might be overcome, the concept of willingness to participate (WTP) is coined as an extension of willingness to communicate (McCroskey & Baer 1985).
First, interviews with producers are analysed qualitatively to identify potential influences on audiences’ WTP. The analysis aims to assess the relative importance of various factors: audiences’ feelings of apprehension, self-perceived competence, language background and Welsh language ability, as well as the modality of participation (oral/written) and the level of demand placed on the audience.
Second, a questionnaire is designed and administered to 358 Welsh speakers, to examine audiences’ perceptions of different opportunities to participate in media content. A path model of WTP is proposed and tested using quantitative data from the survey. The results support the hypothesis that audiences’ apprehension and self-perceived competence predict WTP and that audience response varies according to the media context. While audiences’ Welsh language skills are important in explaining their WTP, other aspects of language background, such as Welsh language acquisition context, are found to be less important.
Third, the survey sample is grouped according to common patterns of WTP, to test whether the above effects are consistent across the population or whether different ‘types’ of audience exist. Using a combination of cluster analysis and thematic analysis of audience comments, four types of audience are proposed and described in detail. Finally, implications for sociolinguistic theory, language maintenance and media production practice are considered and recommendations made.Arts and Humanities Research Counci
Nation building : implementing devolution in the United Kingdom— the Welsh experience
No full textPaper presented to the IBIS conference, Renovation or revolution? new territorial politics in Ireland and the United Kingdom, University College Dublin, 3 April 2002.The Welsh experience of devolution can best be summarised by contrasting it with the Scottish. Where Scotland had an established array of civic institutions, the National Assembly of Wales found itself in the position of having to construct an institutional reality. The Assembly faced a number of constraints: its powers were limited to those previously held by the Secretary of State for Wales, and it was established as a corporate body. However, it soon became clear that the view of the Assembly as a continuation from previous administrations was unsustainable. This paper discusses the role of a number of key characters and agencies in redefining the nature of the National Assembly. In addition to the development of a strong central authority the author tracks the related emergence of a new civic culture in Wales. The paper concludes by examining the broader impact of the Welsh experience of devolution on territorial politics within the British Isles, and Welsh engagement with a network of European regions.Not applicableti,co,ab.kpw8/7/1
From theory to practice: Conceptualising the guiding principles within the Regional Integration Fund
No full textNational Evaluation of the Regional Integration Fund Study team: Mark Llewellyn, Fiona Verity, Heledd Bebb, Nia Bryer, Deborah Fitzsimmons, Tony Garthwaite, Mary Lynch, Llinos Haf Spencer, Sion Tetlow, Carolyn Wallace, and Sarah Wallace. Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care, University of South Wales; Brunel University London; Swansea University, OB3 Research, and Royal College of Surgeons Ireland. Study Principal lead: Professor Mark Llewellyn1 Director of the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care, and Professor of Health and Care Policy, University of South Wales [email protected] .This is the Conceptualisation Report for the study, synthesising findings from four reports providing supporting evidence – the Framework for Change (Verity and Llewellyn, 2023); the Realist Review of the literature (Tetlow et al., 2024); the Group Concept Mapping report on conceptualising the Regional Integration Fund (Wallace and Wallace, 2024): and the in-depth Scoping Interviews report (Bryer and Bebb, 2024).The Welsh Government
Quality of Welsh Legislation
No full textThis LLM dissertation suggests that the process of devolution has affected the quality of legislation in Wales. The author argues that the quality of devolved Welsh legislation has been influenced by ineffective legal terminology in the Welsh language available to make the drafting of Welsh consistent with English drafting and on its own with the policy. In addition it is suggested that the quality of Welsh legislation has been affected by problems of inaccessibility due to amendment, cross reference and inter related provisions
A ‘NEW NORMAL’ OF CODE-SWITCHING: COVID-19, THE INDONESIAN MEDIA AND LANGUAGE CHANGE
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has changed behavioural norms and how people conceptualise everyday life. It has led to prolific use of specific terminology that is new or was previously outside the lexical boundaries of common use. Terms like ‘social distancing’, ‘lockdown’ and ‘new normal' were previously jargon limited to specialist fields. The COVID-19 pandemic which spread globally in 2020 has led to great social change and an associated lexical influence. To study this phenomenon, we examine the lexical effects of COVID-19 on the Indonesian language, through analysis of two well-known Indonesian national newspapers – Kompas and Suara Pembaruan, for the month of May 2020. This was at a time of growing awareness of COVID-19 in Indonesia, that included a partial lockdown in Jakarta. As such, there was a great deal of attention to COVID-19 in the mass media. To study this, we apply quantitative content analysis to the sample data to identify the range and frequency of words borrowed from English. We examine this use of code-switching to also undertake qualitative analysis, exploring the various socio-linguistic dimensions of those borrowed terms. Some usage was found to address lexical gaps in Indonesian language, where other usage appeared more for stylistic, emphatic purposes, drawing on the semiotic power of English in the Indonesian context. Code-switching reiteration was particularly prominent in the sample data. We argue that through code-switching reiteration, the print media can introduce new foreign vocabulary to Indonesian readers, which subsequently generates opportunities for language change. COVID-19 has expedited this process, meaning that there has been an increased likelihood of Indonesian language change during 2020
The Victorian Newsletter (Fall 2008)
No full textThe Victorian Newsletter is sponsored for the Victorian Group of the Modern Language Association by Western Kentucky University and is published twice yearly.Greetings from the Editor / Deborah Logan -- Rewriting the Boxer Rebellion: The Imaginative Creations of Putnam Weale, Edmund Backhouse, and Charles Welsh Mason / Jacqueline Young -- Alien Image, Ideal Beauty: The Orientalist Vision of American Slavery in Hiram Powers's The Greek Slave / Sara Hackenberg -- Sight, Sound, and Silence: Representations of the Slave Body in Barrett Browning, Hawkshaw, and Douglass / Debbie Bark -- Charlotte Brontë's "Pain Pressed" Pilgrimage and its Critical Reception / Jacqueline Banerjee -- Review Essay: Norman H. MacKenzie, Excursions in Hopkins; Cary H. Plotkin, Soundings: Essays in Memory of Norman Hugh MacKenzie; James I. Wimsatt, Hopkins's Poetics of Speech Sound: Sprung Rhythm, Lettering, Inscape / William Harmon -- Book Review: Antonio Melechi, Servants of the Supernatural: The Night Side of Victorian Nature / Joseph Good -- Books Received -- Announcements -- Contributor
Some Welsh etymologies
No full textThe author proposes etymologies for the Welsh forms gwartheg cattle , bustach bullock , tayawc villein , Maiuc, personal name, and discusses the relationships of the forms (y)ryngof, (y)rof etc., between me... etc.Quelques étymologies galloises.
L'auteur propose des étymologies pour les formes galloises gwartheg «bétail», bustach «taurillon», tayawc «villain», Maiuc, nom propre, et il discute la parenté des formes (y)ryngof, (y)rof etc., «entre moi... » etc.Isaac Graham R. Some Welsh etymologies. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 30, 1994. pp. 229-231
Framework for Change: Guiding directions, principles and aims of the Health and Social Care Regional Integration Fund
No full textSupporting Evidence Report 1 for the National Evaluation of the Regional Integration Fund.National Evaluation of the Regional Integration Fund Study team: Mark Llewellyn, Fiona Verity, Heledd Bebb, Nia Bryer, Deborah Fitzsimmons, Tony Garthwaite, Mary Lynch, Llinos Haf Spencer, Sion Tetlow, Carolyn Wallace, and Sarah Wallace. Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care, University of South Wales; Brunel University London; Swansea University, OB3 Research, and Royal College of Surgeons Ireland. Study Principal lead: Professor Mark Llewellyn1 Director of the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care, and Professor of Health and Care Policy, University of South Wales [email protected] .This is the Framework for Change Report which is one of four documents providing supporting evidence for the Conceptualisation Report of the National Evaluation of the Regional Integration Fund. Three others provide supporting evidence – the Rapid Realist Review of the literature (Tetlow et al., 2024); the Group Concept Mapping report on conceptualising the Regional Integration Fund (Wallace and Wallace, 2024): and the in-depth Scoping Interviews report (Bryer and Bebb, 2024).The Welsh Government
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