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Elen Bonner; Cynog Prys; Rhian Hodges; Siwan Mitchelmore – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This paper seeks to explain the migration decisions of minority language speakers by investigating motivating factors. Viewed through a language planning lens, the study pushes the parameters of some of the discipline's more recent agency concepts within the context of migration. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 60 Welsh speakers…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Planning, Language Minorities, Decision Making
McDermott, Philip – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
In 1999, devolved governance was established in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland which altered the contours of language recognition in the United Kingdom. Whilst much focus has been placed on how devolution improved the status of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and Irish, less attention has been placed on those minority vernaculars with 'contested'…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Governance, Language Minorities, Welsh