Identity and Language: The Example of Welsh Women

Piette, Brec'hed

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“…Ethnicity in its broadest sense is a culturally based demographic characteristic (Berthoud, 1998). A great deal of effort has been invested in trying to define this variable (Aspinall, 2001) with opinions ranging from a cultural approach (Halualani, 2000;Wink, 1997), focusing on perceptions (Laaksonen, 1996), personal relationships (Gaines et al, 1997), in-group closeness (Uleman et al, 2000;), as social constructions (Berbrier, 2000) to even language (Piette, 1997). Most researchers agree that ethnicity reflects a form of group identity.…”

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“…The two core criteria, the need for a geographic reference and social networks that develop around a focal point, apparently provide enough flexibility to match the heterogeneous and segregated character of urban and rural areas. While some definitions focus on specific elements of how communities evolve, such as an emphasis on mutually shared language (Karam, 2000), the use of particular semantics or having a common history and culture (Piette, 1997), all return to the distinct cohesive ties, or social networks developed with family, friends, and neighbors as the basis for community (Bastida, 2001). Under this definition, communities can be viable social units in both urban and rural areas.…”

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Generic sources of disaster communities: a social network approach

Kirschenbaum

2004

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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This paper utilizes the generic source of “community” to define a disaster community emphasizing disaster areas’ perceived boundaries and the social networks that fall within these boundaries. Three such “disaster communities” are proposed based on family‐kin, micro‐neighborhood, and macro‐neighborhood social networks. Utilizing an Israel national representative sample of (814) urban households residing in 150 municipalities, a set of hypotheses were tested regarding the impact of disaster communities on individual disaster preparedness behaviors. In general, more socially robust communities brought about greater levels of individual preparedness but with significant exceptions by type of preparedness. In addition, the predictive ability of such disaster communities on each preparedness component varied. Ethnic and educational composition of the networks had a negligible impact on disaster preparedness behaviors. Overall, the use of social network based disaster communities provides a sound theoretical and empirical foundation to study disaster behaviors.

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Section: Ethnicitymentioning

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Generic sources of disaster communities: a social network approach

Kirschenbaum

2004

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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“…Thus, even though between 1801 and 1991 the national census in the United Kingdom suggested that the population of Wales having some ability in the Welsh language fell from 80% to 18.7% (Higgs et al ), an often cited assertion is that Welsh people, unlike the Scottish or Irish people, have retained a highly developed sense of nationhood linked to their language. One reason Wales may differ from its Celtic neighbours in respect to the centrality and vitality of language in identity may be that, for centuries after Wales was effectively Anglicized, Scotland and Ireland maintained distinctive governmental and administrative structures from England (Piette ). A wide range of other ‘markers of identity’ was therefore available in those countries.…”

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The ‘Chip Shop Welsh’: Aspects of ‘Welsh Speaking’ Identity in Contemporary Wales

Madoc-Jones

Parry

Jones

2013

Studies Ethnicity & National

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Considerable research has explored the relationship between majority and minority language speaking communities in bilingual contexts. Comparatively little research, however, has explored relations within as opposed to between a language group in these contexts. Antecedent to a new order of social and cultural life in Wales, this article explores how two groups of Welsh speakers, one relatively privileged and one relatively marginalized, positioned themselves as they talked about ‘being Welsh speaking’. For all respondents the ability to speak Welsh was understood to confer sameness beyond linguistic competence on Welsh speakers. Claims to a strong Welsh‐speaking identity, however, were legitimized by drawing on different resources. Whilst the relatively privileged group identified themselves as ‘traditionally Welsh’ based on their linguistic and social practices, members of the more marginalized group were unable to define their own linguistic and social practices as ‘traditional’ for a Welsh speaker. In response they forged a distinctive social space for themselves by developing a class‐based communal Welsh identity. With reference to Bourdieu's work on the process of boundary construction and maintenance, this article makes a contribution to understanding ethnolinguistic diversity and how discourses about being Welsh speaking might be reproduced and negotiated in contemporary post‐diglossic Wales. It suggests that ethnolinguistic identity may become implicated in the process of classificatory struggle, with social groups emerging through a social space of hierarchical difference.

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Ethnicity and Ethnic Media Use

Jeffres¹

2000

Communication Research

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Ethnicity continues to be a political and social force on the national and international scenes. After a discussion of the literature on ethnicity and communication, this article tracks a panel representing 13 different White ethnic groups in a metropolitan area. Data were collected every 4 years, beginning in 1976 and continuing through 1992. In 1976, 13 ethnic groups were surveyed, and 11 groups were tracked in subsequent surveys. Although each wave collected data unique to that period, all surveys included items tapping ethnic identification, ethnic behaviors, ethnic media use, and mainstream media use. Using a variety of analytic techniques, the author finds evidence that ethnic media use leads to stronger ethnic identification across time, suggesting that ethnic media can help sustain ethnic identification in a multicultural context.

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Identity and Language: The Example of Welsh Women

Cited by 4 publications

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Generic sources of disaster communities: a social network approach

Generic sources of disaster communities: a social network approach

The ‘Chip Shop Welsh’: Aspects of ‘Welsh Speaking’ Identity in Contemporary Wales

Ethnicity and Ethnic Media Use

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