M C Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 14624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M C Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | M C |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peterhouse, Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1246-0816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Lé co crie ‘Cocolîncheux’: The arts as a resource for language planning in Jersey
This study considers the way in which the arts can play an important role in language planning. It focuses on Jèrriais, the critically endangered variety of Norman spoken in Jersey, one of the British Channel Islands. The discussion considers initiatives from across the performing, creative and visual arts and illustrates how these can serve as an effective complement to more conventional (school-based) language planning strategies by creating a …
Hybridation linguistique: Le modèle de revitalisation a-t-il de l’importance
L’investissement belge dans les charbonnages des Asturies (Espagne) a constitué la première étape de l’industrialisation de la région et a suscité un intérêt historiographique considérable. Toutefois l’ampleur réelle de cet investissement, ainsi que son importance pour l’ensemble des entreprises ayant opéré dans la région durant 154 ans, restent mal connues. Cet article propose de retracer l’histoire de ces sociétés et d’évaluer la place et le po…
What the elle Is Going On: Pronoun Borrowing in Norman and Louisiana Creole
This study investigates the influence of lexical and structural similarity on ‘hard to borrow’ features. It examines the use of the French 3sg feminine pronoun elle in Norman and in Louisiana Creole using the framework of matter- and pattern-borrowing (Matras and Sakel, 2007). As Norman and Louisiana Creole are in contact with different superstrates, the study suggests that lexical relatedness may be the primary driver of matter-borrowing in thes…
Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Mairi McLaughlin, The Oxford Handbook of the French Language
Damien Mooney, Language and Dialect Death: Theorising Sound Change in Obsolescent Gascon
You Say ‘Huiptante’ and I Say ‘Quatre-Vîngts: Investigating Linguistic Variation in Jèrriais
Obsolescent languages exhibit large amounts of linguistic variation. Yet, given the demographic conditions often in place, attributing meaning to this variation via the application of established models of analysis, such as Labovian sociolinguistics, is not always straightforward. Indeed, the question often becomes not how language varies according to age or social stratification but, rather, whether (and how) language varies for two speakers sha…
The Covid Virtual ward in Hywel Dda
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Exception française? Levelling, Exclusion, and Urban Social Structure in France
This chapter aims to investigate two areas of French exceptionality. First, there is the fact that Labovian variationist research methodologies, widely and successfully applied in Britain, Scandinavia, and anglophone and francophone North America, appear to have made almost no headway in France, without the reasons for this being obvious. Second, as even a casual reader of the sociolinguistic literature will note, there is the surprisingly high d…
Introduction: Therapeutic Culture
No abstract available
Keeping Languages Alive: Documentation, Pedagogy and Revitalization
Many of the world's languages have diminishing numbers of speakers and are in danger of falling silent. Around the globe, a large body of linguists are collaborating with members of indigenous communities to keep these languages alive. Mindful that their work will be used by future speech communities to learn, teach and revitalise their languages, scholars face new challenges in the way they gather materials and in the way they present their find…
Diatopic Variation and the Study of Regional French
Le changement linguistique à Guernesey: S’agit-il d’une convergence syntaxique ?1
Pendant une bonne partie du 20 e siècle, il y a eu une dominance asymétrique entre l’anglais et le dialecte normand de Guernesey, le guernesiais, qui s’accompagnait d’une influence pour l’essentiel uni-directionnelle (de l’anglais au guernesiais) qui, à côté du déclin du nombre de locuteurs et de la réduction des territoires concernés, sont des signes d’obsolescence. Cependant, l’étude du normand et de l’anglais parlés à Guernesey montre que non …
The Martin Manuscript: An Unexplored Archive Of Guernsey Norman French
Although the Channel Islands have formed part of the Romance-speaking world for some two millennia, they are unlikely to do so for much longer. In 2001, Census figures revealed that, in Guernsey, only some 2% of the population (or 1327 individuals) could still speak Guernsey Norman French (Guernesiais). The hitherto-unstudied Martin manuscript is the largest corpus of prose from a single pen in Channel Island French. Dating from the turn of the t…
Blue-sky thinking: Léon Bollack and La Langue française en l’an 2003
This paper tests the predictions of Bollack’s 1903 article against the now known reality of twenty-first-century French. While many of his claims are undoubtedly naïve, Bollack often proves an astute observer of spoken French, who merely underestimates resistance to change in the written language. Moreover, he identifies themes which were to dominate the mainstream linguistic agenda, and sets out principles of change which would influence comment…
Preseli Dolerite Bluestones: Axe‐heads, Stonehenge Monoliths, and Outcrop Sources
Chemical compositions and magnetic susceptibility data were compared for 12 dolerite bluestone implements including axes, axe‐hammers and battle‐axes, 11 Stonehenge monoliths (chemical data only), and potential source outcrops in Preseli, South Wales. Most of the studied artefacts are of spotted dolerite, a small number being unspotted dolerite. Bivariate graphs, discriminant analysis and t‐tests were used singly and in combination to show, respe…
Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages
Colloquial Breton: The Complete Course for Beginners
By Ian Press and Hervé Ar Bihan. London — New York, Routledge. 2004. viii+284 pp. includes 2 cassettes/CD-ROMs. £31.31. Good self-study Breton courses are relatively easy to find, provided that you live in Wales and can speak Welsh (these include the following: Z. Bowen, Llydaweg i'r Cymro (Y Bala, Gwasg y Sir, 1977), R. Williams, Cyflwyno'r Llydaweg (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1981), Rh. Hincks, Kentelioù Brezhoneg Diazez/Cwrs Llydaweg …
Ludovic Massé: Du terroir catalan à l'universel. Actes du colloque de Perpignan 100 e anniversaire de la naissance de Ludovic Massé (12 février 2000)
Études réunies par Maurice Roelens. (Cahiers de l'Université de Perpignan, 33). Presses universitaires de Perpignan, 2003. 159 pp. Pb €12.00. I am left wondering as to what Ludovic Massé (1900–82) would have made of this volume and all that it represents! For this quite prolific writer from la Catalogne roussillonnaise was in fact something of a rebel and held decidedly anti-authoritarian views. Under the Vichy regime, for instance, he was asked …
Les Îles bretonnes: Une image en construction (1750–1914)
Journal Article Les Îles bretonnes: une image en construction (1750–1914) Get access Mari C. Jones Mari C. Jones Peterhouse, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 59, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 282–283, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kni128 Published: 01 April 2005
Non-destructive provenancing of bluestone axe-heads in Britain
The authors present a new procedure for discovering where stone artefacts come from without having to cut a slice through them. The method is tested on axes of spotted dolerite bluestone from Preseli in Wales, source of monoliths at Stonehenge
Non-destructive geochemical and magnetic characterisation of Group XVIII dolerite stone axes and shaft-hole implements from England
An Illustration of the Use of an Atypicality Index in Provenancing British Stone Axes
An atypicality index has been used to compare the chemical compositions of 11 British prehistoric implements (axes and axe‐hammers, and a mace) with previously suggested and likely sources in South Wales (Group XIII spotted dolerite from the Carnmenyn area, and Group VIII rhyolite from Carnalw). Atypicality indices together with mineralogy indicate that only two out of six supposed Group XIII implements are likely to be Group XIII, and only one o…
An Illustration of the Use of an Atypicality Index in Provenancing British Stone Axes
Swimming Against the Tide: Language Planning on Jersey
A variety of Romance has been spoken on Jersey for some two thousand years. However Jèrriais, the Norman dialect spoken on the Island today, is now obsolescent. Its decline in fortune has recently prompted a number of corpus and status planning initiatives which, largely devoid of State support, lie in the hands of a small, non-linguistically trained, group of enthusiasts. This paper examines the different agencies of language planning on Jersey …
Language Obsolescence and Revitalization: Linguistic Change in Two Sociolinguistically Contrasting Welsh Communities
1. Introduction 2. Case Study I: The Gwenhwyseg Dialect 3. Case Study II: The Rhosllannerchrugog Dialect 4. Language and Dialect Death: Socio-Political and Linguistic Considerations 5. A Comparison with the other Varieties of P-Celtic: Is Language Obsolescence Predictable? 6. Conclusion Bibliography Appendices
Non-destructive geochemical and magnetic characterisation of Group XVIII dolerite stone axes and shaft-hole implements from England
Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages
Death of a Language, Birth of an Identity: Brittany and the Bretons
SOMMAIRE Mort d'une langue, naissance d'une identité: Le cas de la Bretagne Le Duché de Bretagne fut officiellement rattaché à la France en 1532; aujourd'hui encore, il est considéré comme une des régions françaises. Cependant, même si, du point de vue d'un étranger, la Bretagne constitue une unité géographique, la situation est quelque peu équivoque car, en y regardant de plus près, la Bretagne n'est entitaire que par le nom. Le pays se divise s…
Magnetic Susceptibility Variations at Mons Claudianus and in Roman Columns: A Method of Provenancing to Within a Single Quarry
Mons Claudianus in the Eastern Desert of Egypt was an important source of granodiorite for Roman columns. Computer contouring of 1119 magnetic susceptibility measurements at the quarry shows systematic variations, with low readings in the west of the quarry area and higher readings in the east. One hundred and seventy measurements on 62 columns of Mons Claudianus type in Rome and its environs were compared with the quarry readings, using a t‐test…
At What Price Language Maintenance: Standardization in Modern Breton
Journal Article AT WHAT PRICE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE?: STANDARDIZATION IN MODERN BRETON Get access MARI C. JONES MARI C. JONES PETERHOUSE, CAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLIX, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 424–438, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLIX.4.424 Published: 01 October 1995
Preseli Dolerite Bluestones: Axe‐heads, Stonehenge Monoliths, and Outcrop Sources
Chemical compositions and magnetic susceptibility data were compared for 12 dolerite bluestone implements including axes, axe‐hammers and battle‐axes, 11 Stonehenge monoliths (chemical data only), and potential source outcrops in Preseli, South Wales. Most of the studied artefacts are of spotted dolerite, a small number being unspotted dolerite. Bivariate graphs, discriminant analysis and t‐tests were used singly and in combination to show, respe…
Non-destructive provenancing of bluestone axe-heads in Britain
The authors present a new procedure for discovering where stone artefacts come from without having to cut a slice through them. The method is tested on axes of spotted dolerite bluestone from Preseli in Wales, source of monoliths at Stonehenge
Swimming Against the Tide: Language Planning on Jersey
A variety of Romance has been spoken on Jersey for some two thousand years. However Jèrriais, the Norman dialect spoken on the Island today, is now obsolescent. Its decline in fortune has recently prompted a number of corpus and status planning initiatives which, largely devoid of State support, lie in the hands of a small, non-linguistically trained, group of enthusiasts. This paper examines the different agencies of language planning on Jersey …
Blue-sky thinking: Léon Bollack and La Langue française en l’an 2003
This paper tests the predictions of Bollack’s 1903 article against the now known reality of twenty-first-century French. While many of his claims are undoubtedly naïve, Bollack often proves an astute observer of spoken French, who merely underestimates resistance to change in the written language. Moreover, he identifies themes which were to dominate the mainstream linguistic agenda, and sets out principles of change which would influence comment…
Genetic studies of emotions
A Reliable Data-Based Bandwidth Selection Method for Kernel Density Estimation
We present a new method for data-based selection of the bandwidth in kernel density estimation which has excellent properties. It improves on a recent procedure of Park and Marron (which itself is a good method) in various ways. First, the new method has superior theoretical performance; second, it also has a computational advantage; third, the new method has reliably good performance for smooth densities in simulations, performance that is secon…
At What Price Language Maintenance: Standardization in Modern Breton
Journal Article AT WHAT PRICE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE?: STANDARDIZATION IN MODERN BRETON Get access MARI C. JONES MARI C. JONES PETERHOUSE, CAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLIX, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 424–438, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLIX.4.424 Published: 01 October 1995
Magnetic Susceptibility Variations at Mons Claudianus and in Roman Columns: A Method of Provenancing to Within a Single Quarry
Mons Claudianus in the Eastern Desert of Egypt was an important source of granodiorite for Roman columns. Computer contouring of 1119 magnetic susceptibility measurements at the quarry shows systematic variations, with low readings in the west of the quarry area and higher readings in the east. One hundred and seventy measurements on 62 columns of Mons Claudianus type in Rome and its environs were compared with the quarry readings, using a t‐test…
Death of a Language, Birth of an Identity: Brittany and the Bretons
SOMMAIRE Mort d'une langue, naissance d'une identité: Le cas de la Bretagne Le Duché de Bretagne fut officiellement rattaché à la France en 1532; aujourd'hui encore, il est considéré comme une des régions françaises. Cependant, même si, du point de vue d'un étranger, la Bretagne constitue une unité géographique, la situation est quelque peu équivoque car, en y regardant de plus près, la Bretagne n'est entitaire que par le nom. Le pays se divise s…
Swimming Against the Tide: Language Planning on Jersey
A variety of Romance has been spoken on Jersey for some two thousand years. However Jèrriais, the Norman dialect spoken on the Island today, is now obsolescent. Its decline in fortune has recently prompted a number of corpus and status planning initiatives which, largely devoid of State support, lie in the hands of a small, non-linguistically trained, group of enthusiasts. This paper examines the different agencies of language planning on Jersey …
Language Obsolescence and Revitalization: Linguistic Change in Two Sociolinguistically Contrasting Welsh Communities
1. Introduction 2. Case Study I: The Gwenhwyseg Dialect 3. Case Study II: The Rhosllannerchrugog Dialect 4. Language and Dialect Death: Socio-Political and Linguistic Considerations 5. A Comparison with the other Varieties of P-Celtic: Is Language Obsolescence Predictable? 6. Conclusion Bibliography Appendices
An Illustration of the Use of an Atypicality Index in Provenancing British Stone Axes
An atypicality index has been used to compare the chemical compositions of 11 British prehistoric implements (axes and axe‐hammers, and a mace) with previously suggested and likely sources in South Wales (Group XIII spotted dolerite from the Carnmenyn area, and Group VIII rhyolite from Carnalw). Atypicality indices together with mineralogy indicate that only two out of six supposed Group XIII implements are likely to be Group XIII, and only one o…
An Illustration of the Use of an Atypicality Index in Provenancing British Stone Axes
Non-destructive geochemical and magnetic characterisation of Group XVIII dolerite stone axes and shaft-hole implements from England
Non-destructive provenancing of bluestone axe-heads in Britain
The authors present a new procedure for discovering where stone artefacts come from without having to cut a slice through them. The method is tested on axes of spotted dolerite bluestone from Preseli in Wales, source of monoliths at Stonehenge
Colloquial Breton: The Complete Course for Beginners
By Ian Press and Hervé Ar Bihan. London — New York, Routledge. 2004. viii+284 pp. includes 2 cassettes/CD-ROMs. £31.31. Good self-study Breton courses are relatively easy to find, provided that you live in Wales and can speak Welsh (these include the following: Z. Bowen, Llydaweg i'r Cymro (Y Bala, Gwasg y Sir, 1977), R. Williams, Cyflwyno'r Llydaweg (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1981), Rh. Hincks, Kentelioù Brezhoneg Diazez/Cwrs Llydaweg …
Ludovic Massé: Du terroir catalan à l'universel. Actes du colloque de Perpignan 100 e anniversaire de la naissance de Ludovic Massé (12 février 2000)
Études réunies par Maurice Roelens. (Cahiers de l'Université de Perpignan, 33). Presses universitaires de Perpignan, 2003. 159 pp. Pb €12.00. I am left wondering as to what Ludovic Massé (1900–82) would have made of this volume and all that it represents! For this quite prolific writer from la Catalogne roussillonnaise was in fact something of a rebel and held decidedly anti-authoritarian views. Under the Vichy regime, for instance, he was asked …
Les Îles bretonnes: Une image en construction (1750–1914)
Journal Article Les Îles bretonnes: une image en construction (1750–1914) Get access Mari C. Jones Mari C. Jones Peterhouse, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 59, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 282–283, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kni128 Published: 01 April 2005
Blue-sky thinking: Léon Bollack and La Langue française en l’an 2003
This paper tests the predictions of Bollack’s 1903 article against the now known reality of twenty-first-century French. While many of his claims are undoubtedly naïve, Bollack often proves an astute observer of spoken French, who merely underestimates resistance to change in the written language. Moreover, he identifies themes which were to dominate the mainstream linguistic agenda, and sets out principles of change which would influence comment…
Preseli Dolerite Bluestones: Axe‐heads, Stonehenge Monoliths, and Outcrop Sources
Chemical compositions and magnetic susceptibility data were compared for 12 dolerite bluestone implements including axes, axe‐hammers and battle‐axes, 11 Stonehenge monoliths (chemical data only), and potential source outcrops in Preseli, South Wales. Most of the studied artefacts are of spotted dolerite, a small number being unspotted dolerite. Bivariate graphs, discriminant analysis and t‐tests were used singly and in combination to show, respe…
Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages
Le changement linguistique à Guernesey: S’agit-il d’une convergence syntaxique ?1
Pendant une bonne partie du 20 e siècle, il y a eu une dominance asymétrique entre l’anglais et le dialecte normand de Guernesey, le guernesiais, qui s’accompagnait d’une influence pour l’essentiel uni-directionnelle (de l’anglais au guernesiais) qui, à côté du déclin du nombre de locuteurs et de la réduction des territoires concernés, sont des signes d’obsolescence. Cependant, l’étude du normand et de l’anglais parlés à Guernesey montre que non …
The Martin Manuscript: An Unexplored Archive Of Guernsey Norman French
Although the Channel Islands have formed part of the Romance-speaking world for some two millennia, they are unlikely to do so for much longer. In 2001, Census figures revealed that, in Guernsey, only some 2% of the population (or 1327 individuals) could still speak Guernsey Norman French (Guernesiais). The hitherto-unstudied Martin manuscript is the largest corpus of prose from a single pen in Channel Island French. Dating from the turn of the t…
Diatopic Variation and the Study of Regional French
Keeping Languages Alive: Documentation, Pedagogy and Revitalization
Many of the world's languages have diminishing numbers of speakers and are in danger of falling silent. Around the globe, a large body of linguists are collaborating with members of indigenous communities to keep these languages alive. Mindful that their work will be used by future speech communities to learn, teach and revitalise their languages, scholars face new challenges in the way they gather materials and in the way they present their find…
Introduction: Therapeutic Culture
No abstract available
Exception française? Levelling, Exclusion, and Urban Social Structure in France
This chapter aims to investigate two areas of French exceptionality. First, there is the fact that Labovian variationist research methodologies, widely and successfully applied in Britain, Scandinavia, and anglophone and francophone North America, appear to have made almost no headway in France, without the reasons for this being obvious. Second, as even a casual reader of the sociolinguistic literature will note, there is the surprisingly high d…
The Covid Virtual ward in Hywel Dda
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
You Say ‘Huiptante’ and I Say ‘Quatre-Vîngts: Investigating Linguistic Variation in Jèrriais
Obsolescent languages exhibit large amounts of linguistic variation. Yet, given the demographic conditions often in place, attributing meaning to this variation via the application of established models of analysis, such as Labovian sociolinguistics, is not always straightforward. Indeed, the question often becomes not how language varies according to age or social stratification but, rather, whether (and how) language varies for two speakers sha…
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