Welcome to Episode 71 of Lexis. Lisa, Dan and guest presenter Amanda Cole talk to Professor Mercedes Durham, from the Centre for Language and Communication, Cardiff University about her work on Welsh English.
We talk about:
The Leverhulme Trust project "Sociolinguistic Variation in South East Wales: Change and Contact"
What makes Welsh English distinctive
Varieties of Welsh English and how they’ve come to be
Attitudes to Welsh English accents
The power of Gavin and Stacey
Charlotte from The Traitors
The Speak For Yersel project that links Welsh English to other varieties around the UK and Ireland
Mercedes Durham’s Cardiff University profile page: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/durhamm
Some of the coverage of the ongoing work: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2684264-whats-occurin-dialects-in-barry,-caerphilly-and-pontypridd-subject-of-academic-study
Welsh accents: Is commuting changing how people speak? - BBC News
Wenglish: Experts research how the English language is used in day-to-day life in Wales
The Traitors: how trustworthy is a Welsh accent? A sociolinguist explains
Welsh language: Is mixing with English causing 'erosion'? - BBC News
The Speak For Yersel pages:
https://speakforyersel.ac.uk/wales/
Mercedes’ favourite book about language: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/language-and-gender-a-reader-2e-j-coates/3651256?ean=9781405191272
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Contributors
Lisa Casey
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton
blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social
Jacky Glancey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
Raj Rana
Matthew Butler
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA
Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys
Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys