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A Glossary of Gwent English (c. 2013)
Benjamin A. Jones
Tradition Today, Volume: 11, Pages: 27 - 46
Swansea University Author: Benjamin A. Jones
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Abstract
Due to Gwent’s position on the border between Wales and England, the historic region shares a hybrid identity of both Welshness and Englishness. During the age of traditional dialectology (nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century), Gwent’s Anglo-Welsh dialect was investigated twice, first...
| Published in: | Tradition Today |
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| ISSN: | 2050-0920 |
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Centre for English Traditional Heritage
2022
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69754 |
| Abstract: |
Due to Gwent’s position on the border between Wales and England, the historic region shares a hybrid identity of both Welshness and Englishness. During the age of traditional dialectology (nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century), Gwent’s Anglo-Welsh dialect was investigated twice, first by the Survey of English Dialects (SED), between circa 1951-1960) and then the Survey of AngloWelsh dialects (SAWD) circa 1971 – a testament to its ambiguous cultural/ political identity. These studies provided substantial lexical information on the region. A decade ago, collections of dialectal material by BBC “Voices”, an internet project conducted between 2004-05, provided not only new frameworks for dialect surveying (internet-based), but also additional material for Gwent English. This paper continues a report from a prior Tradition Today issue (Jones, 2016a) and consists of a glossary constructed from the findings of a further internetbased survey conducted in 2013 that elicited the speech of forty four young people in Gwent and assessed their regional lexis and their linguistic identity. In the interests of consistency, this glossary imitates the structure found in David Parry’s SAWD report: A Grammar and Glossary of the Conservative Anglo-Welsh Dialects of Rural Wales (1999). |
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| Keywords: |
Welsh English, Celtic Englishes, Gwent, glossary, dialect |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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27 |
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46 |