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The Geography of Minority Language Use: From Community to Network

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Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation

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In this chapter Rhys Jones argues that Welsh language revitalisation strategy has been dominated by an assumption thatWelsh language use takes place in an unplanned, unmarked manner within face-to-face community settings, which are largely uniform, rural and territorially bounded in character. He contends that this understanding is no longer fully functional given the ways Welsh speakers now live their lives, in light of increased mobility and connectivity, and that Welsh language policy should consider alternative geographies of languageuse which reflect more network-based interpretations of social and spatial life that align more closely with contemporary reality.

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Jones, R. (2021). The Geography of Minority Language Use: From Community to Network. In: Lewis, H., McLeod, W. (eds) Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation. Language and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80189-2_2

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