John Aitchison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3715166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Aitchison |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Aitchison |
| SIGNATURE | AITCHISON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aberystwyth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8758-0834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Assessing the environmental impacts of wildlife television programmes
Wildlife TV programmes reach very large global audiences, but it is hard to measure their benefits for the natural world. The commercial need to entertain as well as inform means that many films omit the presence and impacts of people, giving the false impression that we do not affect the natural world. Many wildlife film‐makers want to address the linked climate and biodiversity emergencies, but the obligation to be impartial has made some broad…
A voz do Sul na Confintea VI
O texto é uma síntese da agenda africana para a CONFINTEA VI, preparada a partir de relatórios nacionais trazidos pelos 46 países africanos reunidos em Nairóbi, Quênia, em novembro de 2008. Depois de breve descrição de um contexto desencorajador, o autor elenca as questões que foram consideradas prioritárias quanto à estrutura, gestão, financiamento e qualidade da educação de adultos na África. Diante da constatação de que os problemas da área sã…
Lifelong learning in South Africa
The new South Africa has formally embraced the concept of ‘lifelong learning’ in its education and training policies. But what is the concept of ‘lifelong learning’ that has informed these policies and what progress has there been in implementing them? Have these new policies brought significant changes to education and training for adults
Cultural Empowerment and Language Shift in Wales
This paper examines the complex array of forces that have shaped the human geography of the Welsh language, particularly since the early 1960s. Geolinguistic shifts are related to demographic movements and processes of socio‐economic restructuring. Changes in the status of the language and in forms of institutional support (cultural empowerment) are also assessed. Finally, consideration is given to the future development of Welsh as a minority la…
Language reproduction
Recent changes in the distribution of the Welsh language are related to a process of empowerment of a Welsh‐speaking elite that has come into being as a consequence of economic change, especially deindustrialization. This situation is examined against theories of language shift, and the specific new routes along which language reproduction is directed are considered
The town and village greens of England and Wales
This paper considers the nature and significance of town and village greens within the landscape of England and Wales. It reflects on problems of definition and on the limited availability of data concerning the origins and geographical distribution of greens. The paper draws attention to the registration of greens following the Commons Registration Act 1965, and summarizes information collated from the registers subsequently prepared by local au…
A Geography of the Welsh Language 1961-1991
A Geography of the Welsh Language
Rural Wales and the Welsh Language
Since the early 1960s the ‘language question’ in Wales has excited deep and often fractious debate. It is to the pace and pattern of change in the Welsh-speaking population of Wales, and the efforts that have been made to halt the long-standing spiral of linguistic decline that this study addresses itself. Of particular interest is the situation prevailing in rural areas of the north and west of the Principality. These areas have long been regard…
The Common Lands of Wales
Based on an analysis of registers compiled as a result of the Commons Registration Act 1965, this paper examines the contemporary distribution of common land and associated rights of common in Wales. Consideration is also given to the conservation and amenity significance of commons, and to the contentious issue of public access. Finally, reference is made to recent demands for a change in the law relating to common lands, with a view to the prom…
The Welsh Language in Cardiff
This paper examines recent developments in the growth and distribution of Welsh speakers within Cardiff-the capital city of Wales. Of particular interest is the relationship between the incidence of Welsh speakers and selected socio-economic attributes. The study highlights a significant and highly distinctive resurgence of interest in the language within a longanglicized metropolitan region. The patterns that emerge suggest a reversal of Hechter…
Commons, conservation and amenity in Wales
Upland landscape change
The national and regional parks of France
Part-Time Farming in Wales
This study seeks to identify types of part-time farming systems within Wales. Based on a sample of 211 agricultural holdings and a mixed-mode set of five variables, the investigation structures a Q-matrix of transformed general coefficients of similarity and subjects it to cluster analysis and the method of principal coordinates. Six types of part-time farming are isolated. The motives that underpin the decision to farm on a part-time basis are a…
Elusive encounters of the phenomenological kind
Slicing the political cake
A Theory of Economic-Demographic Development
The Welsh Language in Cardiff
This paper examines recent developments in the growth and distribution of Welsh speakers within Cardiff-the capital city of Wales. Of particular interest is the relationship between the incidence of Welsh speakers and selected socio-economic attributes. The study highlights a significant and highly distinctive resurgence of interest in the language within a longanglicized metropolitan region. The patterns that emerge suggest a reversal of Hechter…
The Common Lands of Wales
Based on an analysis of registers compiled as a result of the Commons Registration Act 1965, this paper examines the contemporary distribution of common land and associated rights of common in Wales. Consideration is also given to the conservation and amenity significance of commons, and to the contentious issue of public access. Finally, reference is made to recent demands for a change in the law relating to common lands, with a view to the prom…
A Geography of the Welsh Language
Lifelong learning in South Africa
The new South Africa has formally embraced the concept of ‘lifelong learning’ in its education and training policies. But what is the concept of ‘lifelong learning’ that has informed these policies and what progress has there been in implementing them? Have these new policies brought significant changes to education and training for adults
Language reproduction
Recent changes in the distribution of the Welsh language are related to a process of empowerment of a Welsh‐speaking elite that has come into being as a consequence of economic change, especially deindustrialization. This situation is examined against theories of language shift, and the specific new routes along which language reproduction is directed are considered
The national and regional parks of France
Part-Time Farming in Wales
This study seeks to identify types of part-time farming systems within Wales. Based on a sample of 211 agricultural holdings and a mixed-mode set of five variables, the investigation structures a Q-matrix of transformed general coefficients of similarity and subjects it to cluster analysis and the method of principal coordinates. Six types of part-time farming are isolated. The motives that underpin the decision to farm on a part-time basis are a…
Cultural Empowerment and Language Shift in Wales
This paper examines the complex array of forces that have shaped the human geography of the Welsh language, particularly since the early 1960s. Geolinguistic shifts are related to demographic movements and processes of socio‐economic restructuring. Changes in the status of the language and in forms of institutional support (cultural empowerment) are also assessed. Finally, consideration is given to the future development of Welsh as a minority la…
Rural Wales and the Welsh Language
Since the early 1960s the ‘language question’ in Wales has excited deep and often fractious debate. It is to the pace and pattern of change in the Welsh-speaking population of Wales, and the efforts that have been made to halt the long-standing spiral of linguistic decline that this study addresses itself. Of particular interest is the situation prevailing in rural areas of the north and west of the Principality. These areas have long been regard…
A Geography of the Welsh Language 1961-1991
Elusive encounters of the phenomenological kind
Slicing the political cake
A Theory of Economic-Demographic Development
Slicing the political cake
Elusive encounters of the phenomenological kind
Part-Time Farming in Wales
This study seeks to identify types of part-time farming systems within Wales. Based on a sample of 211 agricultural holdings and a mixed-mode set of five variables, the investigation structures a Q-matrix of transformed general coefficients of similarity and subjects it to cluster analysis and the method of principal coordinates. Six types of part-time farming are isolated. The motives that underpin the decision to farm on a part-time basis are a…
The national and regional parks of France
Upland landscape change
Commons, conservation and amenity in Wales
The Welsh Language in Cardiff
This paper examines recent developments in the growth and distribution of Welsh speakers within Cardiff-the capital city of Wales. Of particular interest is the relationship between the incidence of Welsh speakers and selected socio-economic attributes. The study highlights a significant and highly distinctive resurgence of interest in the language within a longanglicized metropolitan region. The patterns that emerge suggest a reversal of Hechter…
The Common Lands of Wales
Based on an analysis of registers compiled as a result of the Commons Registration Act 1965, this paper examines the contemporary distribution of common land and associated rights of common in Wales. Consideration is also given to the conservation and amenity significance of commons, and to the contentious issue of public access. Finally, reference is made to recent demands for a change in the law relating to common lands, with a view to the prom…
Rural Wales and the Welsh Language
Since the early 1960s the ‘language question’ in Wales has excited deep and often fractious debate. It is to the pace and pattern of change in the Welsh-speaking population of Wales, and the efforts that have been made to halt the long-standing spiral of linguistic decline that this study addresses itself. Of particular interest is the situation prevailing in rural areas of the north and west of the Principality. These areas have long been regard…
A Geography of the Welsh Language
The town and village greens of England and Wales
This paper considers the nature and significance of town and village greens within the landscape of England and Wales. It reflects on problems of definition and on the limited availability of data concerning the origins and geographical distribution of greens. The paper draws attention to the registration of greens following the Commons Registration Act 1965, and summarizes information collated from the registers subsequently prepared by local au…
A Geography of the Welsh Language 1961-1991
Language reproduction
Recent changes in the distribution of the Welsh language are related to a process of empowerment of a Welsh‐speaking elite that has come into being as a consequence of economic change, especially deindustrialization. This situation is examined against theories of language shift, and the specific new routes along which language reproduction is directed are considered
Cultural Empowerment and Language Shift in Wales
This paper examines the complex array of forces that have shaped the human geography of the Welsh language, particularly since the early 1960s. Geolinguistic shifts are related to demographic movements and processes of socio‐economic restructuring. Changes in the status of the language and in forms of institutional support (cultural empowerment) are also assessed. Finally, consideration is given to the future development of Welsh as a minority la…
Lifelong learning in South Africa
The new South Africa has formally embraced the concept of ‘lifelong learning’ in its education and training policies. But what is the concept of ‘lifelong learning’ that has informed these policies and what progress has there been in implementing them? Have these new policies brought significant changes to education and training for adults
A voz do Sul na Confintea VI
O texto é uma síntese da agenda africana para a CONFINTEA VI, preparada a partir de relatórios nacionais trazidos pelos 46 países africanos reunidos em Nairóbi, Quênia, em novembro de 2008. Depois de breve descrição de um contexto desencorajador, o autor elenca as questões que foram consideradas prioritárias quanto à estrutura, gestão, financiamento e qualidade da educação de adultos na África. Diante da constatação de que os problemas da área sã…
Assessing the environmental impacts of wildlife television programmes
Wildlife TV programmes reach very large global audiences, but it is hard to measure their benefits for the natural world. The commercial need to entertain as well as inform means that many films omit the presence and impacts of people, giving the false impression that we do not affect the natural world. Many wildlife film‐makers want to address the linked climate and biodiversity emergencies, but the obligation to be impartial has made some broad…
Geography (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Welsh (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Political Systems and Governance (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (4 works)