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This article examines the shifts and changes in the Welsh language which have taken place towards the second half of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first from a critical sociolinguistic perspective (Heller 2002), which is a framework capable of taking into account power relations and stakes underlying language use, issues of collective and individual identity, and the link between representations and social behaviour. Critical sociolinguistics adds to traditional questions on language use: “Where? Why and how? Who stands to gain or lose? What are the stakes?” and it is these that will be examined in a Welsh context here.
Celtic language, Celtic culture : a Festschrift for Eric P. Hamp
1990
is inevitably an important volume. His interests are broad, his publications numerous and thought-provoking over a wide field of languages, grammar, folklore, mythology, and discourse. His friendly personality, interesting conversation, and charming wife have attracted a large group of outstanding scholars who hold him in high regard and friendship. The full range of Hamp's interests is illustrated in his bibliography to date (345-415). The editors have arranged the contributions, chiefly concerned with Celtic languages, in five groups: I: Comparative and Continental Celtic; II Irish; III: Scottish Gaelic; IV: Welsh; and V: Breton. Third in the first section (16-22) is Karl Horst Schmidt's presentation "Zum Plomb du Larzac" concerning a lead-covered tablet that Michel Lejeune, Léon Fleuriot, and P.-Y. Lambert had analyzed in Études celtiques 1985. Schmidt treats here only a small part of the text, a section where he disagrees with their analysis in the first part of his paper. That section is an incantation against the magic of goddesses named and identified. His second part then treats more generally the syntax (SOV), morphology, and etymology of nouns and verbs. Notes and bibliography add three pages to the essay. Representative of the variety of subjects and treatments is Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel's discussion of "Einige Beobachtungen zu[m] Indogermanische[n] /W/ im Keltischen". Like other treatments of phonological changes, this essay is one of the longer ones. Besides treating /w/ in initial, medial, and final position, Stempel covers the range from Gaulish to modern dialects, the two main branches of Celtic, and the dialects within those branches. Twelve pages of discussion and eight pages of notes and bibliography are necessary for this interesting paper. The ninth paper in the second section, "Another Look at Old Irish imbuarach 'this morning', imbárach 'tomorrow morning'" by Anders Ahlqvist, is one of the shortest papers of any section. In barely two pages he summarizes
New perspectives in Celtic Studies : where shall we go from now on ?
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7232-4894 Abstract: In the last twenty years, there have been large advances in Celtic Studies — be it in Linguistics, Comparative Literature, Media, History, Politics, or Archaeology. These were not only due to new theoretical approaches and further development of interdisciplinary debate, but above all to new discoveries and innovative methods of analysis. The models for a so-called ‘Celtic World’ or a ‘Celtic Society’ have been thoroughly questioned and scholars acknowledge the importance of different local and regional developments. Very few now accept that medieval societies in Ireland and the Celtic-speaking parts of Britain preserve unchanged examples of so-called ‘archaism’. Societies are understood to be dynamic and are viewed in their own terms. Large regional variability is evident, particularly in cross-comparative analyses of Irish and Welsh medieval laws, vernacular literature and archaeology. Drawing from such a debate, we propose th...
Modern Philology
New scholarship on early Welsh texts is always welcome and inevitably overdue, but the indispensable value of David Callander's Dissonant Neighbours lies in its ambition. Following a handful of scholars who have pioneered comparative work between Welsh and English texts (e.g., Sarah Higley's Between Languages: The Uncooperative Text in Early Welsh and Old English Nature Poetry [1993]), Callander offers analysis on a breadth of overlooked Welsh poetry while scrutinizing them across, and through, adjacent categories. Like Wales and England, whose works make up the heart of the study, a range of dissonant neighbors get brought into conversation with one another: genres, narrative styles, disciplines, and research methods. As Callander concedes, this kind of work comes with risks and does not necessarily provide clear answers; it does, however, pioneer new approaches and suggest valuable lines of investigation. One leaves Dissonant Neighbours effectively disavowed of any naïve assumption that "there is no early Welsh narrative verse" (2). Throughout the study Callander scrutinizes the too common belief that Welsh and English medieval poetry display vastly different levels of narrativity. Early English works boast robust, sustained narratives, while Welsh counterparts appear to hold back their narratives. Scholars label Welsh poetry inferior by pointing to techniques like radiality, by which events are mindlessly repeated and themes endlessly circled. This is a gross exaggeration, Callander argues, and correcting it requires new kinds of scrutiny. By considering pre-1250 Welsh and English texts beside each other across a breadth of forms (the genres of battle poetry, apocalyptic verse, narratives of Christ's birth and youth, and the structural component of the list) and Modern Philology, volume 117, number 4.
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Behan in a ruthless foray damned this whole world and expresses the frustrations and disenchantment which many within the language movement no doubt felt: Guí an Rannaire. Dá bhfeicfinn fear fásta as Gaoluinn líofa Ag cur síos go sibhialta ar nithe is ar dhaoine, Meoin is tuairimí, i ráite an lae seo Soibealta, sómhar, soicheallach, saolta, Bheinn an-tsásta a theagasc d'éisteacht File fiáin, fearúil, feadánach, Bard beo bíogach bríomhar bastallach Piantach paiseanta peannphágánach. Ariú, mo chreach, cad é an fhírinne? Statseirbhísigh ó Chorca Dhuibhne, Bobarúin eile ó chladaigh Thír Chonaill, Is ó phortaigh na Gaillimhe, mar bharr ar an ndonas, Gaeil Bhleá Cliath fé órchnap Fáinne, Pioneers páistiúla, pollta, piteánta, Maighdeana malla, maola, marbhánta Gach duine acu críochnaithe, cúramach, cráifeach. Dá dtiocfadh file ag séideadh gríosaí Raghainn abhaile, mo ghnó agam críochnaíth.