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Publication details [#39151]

Manning, H. Paul. 2004. The streets of Bethesda: The slate quarrier and the Welsh language in the Welsh Liberal imagination. Language in Society 33 (4) : 517–548.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and society | modernization | political language | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Welsh

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper argues that in the 19th century, the link between language and political economy was consequentially construed in terms of “imagined” exemplary Welsh speakers.