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Breton in Contemporary Media
Speakers, Language, Community
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Merryn Davies-Deacon
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English
Published/Copyright:
2024
About this book
This monograph investigates questions around new speakers of Breton, their identities, attitudes, and motivations, and how these intersect with linguistic practices. Investigating post-traditional contexts, it uses both quantitative and qualitative approaches to probe stereotypes around the language and speakers encountered in these settings. Focusing on the lexis in a sample of Breton gathered from radio, online, and print media sources, and on interviews carried out with professional users of Breton, this work illustrates the wide range of backgrounds and practices within the contemporary Breton language community and shows how speakers use Breton to position themselves within this diverse setting.
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Merryn Davies-Deacon, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom.
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Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Approaches, new speakers and the role of the media
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Chapter 2. Breton and its speakers
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Chapter 3. The corpus of lexemes
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Chapter 4. Interviews: Methodology and participants
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Chapter 5. The lexicon: Standard, dialects, compromise
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Chapter 6. Expansion of the lexicon and multilingualism
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Chapter 7. Conclusion: Understanding contemporary Breton language practices
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
April 22, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783110793253
Hardcover published on:
April 22, 2024
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110793192
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Front matter:
7
Main content:
218
Coloured Illustrations:
5
Tables:
11
Keywords for this book
Breton; New Speakers; Minority Language Media Studies; Language Revitalisation
Audience(s) for this book
Researchers in Minoritised Languages/Language Revitalisation; Language in (New) Media; Contemporary Celtic Studies
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