Colin H Williams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 85629 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Colin H Williams |
| NOMBRES | Colin H |
| APELLIDO | Williams |
| FIRMA | WILLIAMS C H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Staffordshire |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 132 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Multilingualism and Minority Languages
The power differentials between hegemonic and minority languages are interpreted here as an important element of varieties of multilingual contexts. The impact of globalization, communication systems, language revitalization movements, and increased migration flows all contribute to a set of dynamic multilingual transformations. Particular attention is paid to the latest methodological and conceptual advances prompted by a greater embrace of inte…
Spatial representation and sociolinguistic synergies
A closer interdisciplinary engagement by geographers, ethnographers and sociolinguists has resulted in new thematic issues being investigated and more sophisticated methodological approaches being adopted. The development of advanced IT and AI capabilities, particularly the wider adoption of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), has opened up new means of exploring and representing aspects of human behaviour. Of particular note is the appreciat…
Bridging the Gap Between the Politics of Recognition and the Politics of Language Service Delivery in Ontario and Wales
The aim of the article is to start mapping the variety of approaches and instruments which guide the delivery of services to linguistic minorities. The argument suggests that different institutional processes in Ontario and Wales inform the delivery of selected services and calls for more research on how the politics of recognition is implemented in institutions serving official linguistic minorities
Creative ambiguity in the service of language policy and new speakers
This paper critiques the contribution made by specialists working within the COST Action Network on New Speakers Programme. It then offers an evaluation of the progress made to date in a number of fields such as conceptual advancement, ideological dispositions, migration and international mobility before contributing a series of policy related recommendations and an assessment of the challenges yet to be faced by researchers and practitioners. Th…
Multilingualism and Minority Languages
The interaction between hegemonic state languages and autochthonous or allochthonous minority languages is a fascinating, sometimes tragic, relationship, interpreted here from a sociopolitical and policy‐related perspective.
Foras na Gaeilge and Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg
This essay compares the manner in which the principal language agencies in Ireland and Wales face the challenge of promoting their respective national indigenous languages. The comparison brings into sharp relief the differing political contexts and operational constraints which influence both the scope and effectiveness of both organisations. It is argued that whereas the chief barrier to the greater success of Foras na Gaelige is its requiremen…
Comprehensive linguistic study of the use of Irish in the Gaeltacht
Commentary
Ethnic perceptions of Acadia
The name Acadia, given to a portion of the Atlantic region of North America, connotes a wide variety of territorial referents. From the results of a survey of a sample of New Brunswick high school students, it was determined that the exact nature and extent of the area known under the name of Acadia varied, depending on the sample location and ethnic affiliation of the respondants. But a core area common to all samples is centered on Moncton and …
Ethnic Separatism
The paper outlines the main characteristics of ethnic separatism as a process. It then analyses two theories designed to explain the resurgence of reactive peripheral identity, the Internal Colonial thesis and the role of the ethnic intelligentsia. Some of the inherent contradictions in the Parti Québécois's attempt to create a genuine Québécois nation through the promotion of French culture are explored as are some of the pitfalls of a referendu…
Institutions, identities and lesser-used languages in Wales and Brittany
In this article we compare and contrast the very different approaches adopted towards ‘regional’ languages in Wales and the French region of Brittany. Consistent with our interest in the dynamics of devolution, decentralization and regional governance, we focus principally upon the interplay between institutions, actors and opinion at the meso-level, using structured interviews, documentary evidence and survey material to back up our findings. In…
Use of the census of population to discern trends in the Welsh language
The aim of this paper is to present a preliminary analysis of unitary authority level data from the 2001 census of population on the spatial (and, where available, temporal) patterns in proportions of Welsh speakers in Wales. In so doing we draw attention to the advantages (and limitations) of the census as a source of information on the state of the Welsh language. Although a 2 per cent increase in the percentage of Welsh speakers between 1991 a…
Recognition and National Justice for Québec
This chapter examines the tension between the exclusive claims of Canadian statehood and national consciousness and the competing, not to say, resounding Québécois claim to national status as a distinct society. How the Canadian federal and provincial systems deal with Québec’s struggle for national survival and recognition exemplifies the modern state’s difficulties in handling the existence of separate ‘peoples’ within the boundaries of a singl…
Mapping the Multilingual City
Geolinguistic analysis promises a more holistic interpretation of languages in contact in the increasingly complex milieu of major cities. In this paper our aim is to assess the potential of selected aspects of geolinguistic analysis for the understanding of multilingual cities, and to outline a research agenda which highlights the need for a more sustained programme of comparative research on urban multilingualism. We illustrate our agenda with …
Roots of rural ethnic mobilisation
Development, dependency and the democratic deficit
By focusing on structural changes which have influenced the development of Welsh and English in modern Wales, this paper will examine several lessons to be gleaned from the construction of a comprehensive bilingual social order. The argument will incorporate evidence from a variety of sources and agencies concerned with language and cultural reproduction. It will survey those features which increase the dependency of the less numerous language gr…
The Political Geography of the New World Order
VI. On England's beleaguered north
The principles of territoriality and personality in the solution of linguistic conflicts
This paper examines the competing principles of territoriality and personality as key concepts in the provision of language‐related services and rights in multilingual societies. Drawing on recent legislative and sociopolitical change in Belgium, Quebec and Canada we examine to what extent the adoption of such principles actually increases or neutralises language‐related conflict. We argue that sensitive application of certain territorially‐deriv…
Language in Geographic Context
The mapping of language in North America and the British Isles
American Electoral Mosaics
The Land in Linguistic Consciousness
Location and context in Welsh language reproduction
Article Location and context in Welsh language reproduction: a geographic Interpretation was published on January 1, 1987 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1987, issue 66)
Short reviews
Parminder Bhachu, TWICE MIGRANTS: EAST AFRICAN SIKH SETTLERS IN BRITAIN, London and New York: Tavistock Publications, 1985, 205 pp., £15.95. Martin Bulmer THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY, INSTITUTIONALIZ‐ATION, DIVERSITY AND THE RISE OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press (Heritage of Sociology), 285 pp., £26.75. Philip Mason THE MEN WHO RULED INDIA, London, Jonathan Cape, 1985, xv + 368, pp., £15.00. Richard Wi…
The national construction of social space
Institutions, identities and lesser-used languages in Wales and Brittany
In this article we compare and contrast the very different approaches adopted towards ‘regional’ languages in Wales and the French region of Brittany. Consistent with our interest in the dynamics of devolution, decentralization and regional governance, we focus principally upon the interplay between institutions, actors and opinion at the meso-level, using structured interviews, documentary evidence and survey material to back up our findings. In…
The principles of territoriality and personality in the solution of linguistic conflicts
This paper examines the competing principles of territoriality and personality as key concepts in the provision of language‐related services and rights in multilingual societies. Drawing on recent legislative and sociopolitical change in Belgium, Quebec and Canada we examine to what extent the adoption of such principles actually increases or neutralises language‐related conflict. We argue that sensitive application of certain territorially‐deriv…
Language in Geographic Context
Bilingual Districts as an Instrument in Canadian Language Policy
Accommodation of a multi-ethnic population within the territory of a single state has been recognized as a world-wide problem. Within such a society language maintenance is frequently the avenue through which cultural groups seek to preserve their identity. This paper describes and evaluates the Canadian experience of language planning by concentrating on the bilingual district, the key spatial instrument in the federal Official Languages Act. Th…
Ethnic Separatism in Western Europe
Social mobilization and nationalism in multicultural societies
The Territorial Dimension in Language Planning
La teritoria dimensio en la lingvoplanado: takso de ties valoro en la nuntempa Kimrio Atento al la teritoria srumpigo de la kimralingvaj zonoj de Britio vekis malfruan interesigon pri eventuala teritoria lingvo-planado. La artikolo pristudas la spacan bazon de la lingvo-politiko kaj de la lingvaj rajtoj. Oni analizas du tipojn de konflikto pri lingvaj rajtoj. Unue, estas konflikto inter unuopaj rajtoj kaj rajtoj de grupoj, laü apartaj interpretoj…
The mapping of language in North America and the British Isles
Language and nationalism in wales
Ethnic Separatism
The paper outlines the main characteristics of ethnic separatism as a process. It then analyses two theories designed to explain the resurgence of reactive peripheral identity, the Internal Colonial thesis and the role of the ethnic intelligentsia. Some of the inherent contradictions in the Parti Québécois's attempt to create a genuine Québécois nation through the promotion of French culture are explored as are some of the pitfalls of a referendu…
Use of the census of population to discern trends in the Welsh language
The aim of this paper is to present a preliminary analysis of unitary authority level data from the 2001 census of population on the spatial (and, where available, temporal) patterns in proportions of Welsh speakers in Wales. In so doing we draw attention to the advantages (and limitations) of the census as a source of information on the state of the Welsh language. Although a 2 per cent increase in the percentage of Welsh speakers between 1991 a…
Mapping the Multilingual City
Geolinguistic analysis promises a more holistic interpretation of languages in contact in the increasingly complex milieu of major cities. In this paper our aim is to assess the potential of selected aspects of geolinguistic analysis for the understanding of multilingual cities, and to outline a research agenda which highlights the need for a more sustained programme of comparative research on urban multilingualism. We illustrate our agenda with …
Conceived in Bondage—Called Unto Liberty
Official‐language districts
1981). Official‐language districts: ‘A gesture of faith in the future of Canada’. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 334-347
Foras na Gaeilge and Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg
This essay compares the manner in which the principal language agencies in Ireland and Wales face the challenge of promoting their respective national indigenous languages. The comparison brings into sharp relief the differing political contexts and operational constraints which influence both the scope and effectiveness of both organisations. It is argued that whereas the chief barrier to the greater success of Foras na Gaelige is its requiremen…
Ethnic perceptions of Acadia
The name Acadia, given to a portion of the Atlantic region of North America, connotes a wide variety of territorial referents. From the results of a survey of a sample of New Brunswick high school students, it was determined that the exact nature and extent of the area known under the name of Acadia varied, depending on the sample location and ethnic affiliation of the respondants. But a core area common to all samples is centered on Moncton and …
Short reviews
Elia T. Zureik, THE PALESTINIANS IN ISRAEL. A STUDY IN INTERNAL COLONIALISM. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979, xi, 249, £8.50 Helen Fein. ACCOUNTING FOR GENOCIDE. New York: The Free Press, 1979, xxi, 468. n.p. Sammy Smooha, ISRAEL: PLURALISM AND CONFLICT. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, International Library of Sociology, 1978, 462 pp., Price £12.50. Howard Rabinowitz, RACE RELATIONS IN THE URBAN SOUTH, 1865–1890, Oxford University Press, 1978, p…
Short reviews
Milton M. Gordon, HUMAN NATURE, CLASS AND ETHNICITY. London and New York, Oxford University Press, 1978, 302 pp., £6.50, $11.95 ($3.50 paper). June Teufel Dreyer, CHINA'S FORTY MILLIONS: MINORITY NATIONALITIES AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. Cambridge (Mass.) and London, Harvard University Press, 1976, 333 pp., £9.55. W. Stanford Reid (ed), THE SCOTTISH TRADITION IN CANADA. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1976, xi + 324…
Language and nationalism in wales
Short reviews
Elia T. Zureik, THE PALESTINIANS IN ISRAEL. A STUDY IN INTERNAL COLONIALISM. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979, xi, 249, £8.50 Helen Fein. ACCOUNTING FOR GENOCIDE. New York: The Free Press, 1979, xxi, 468. n.p. Sammy Smooha, ISRAEL: PLURALISM AND CONFLICT. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, International Library of Sociology, 1978, 462 pp., Price £12.50. Howard Rabinowitz, RACE RELATIONS IN THE URBAN SOUTH, 1865–1890, Oxford University Press, 1978, p…
Ethnic Separatism in Western Europe
On culture space
Williams Colin H. On culture space : perceptual culture regions in Wales. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 18, 1981. pp. 273-296
The Territorial Dimension in Language Planning
La teritoria dimensio en la lingvoplanado: takso de ties valoro en la nuntempa Kimrio Atento al la teritoria srumpigo de la kimralingvaj zonoj de Britio vekis malfruan interesigon pri eventuala teritoria lingvo-planado. La artikolo pristudas la spacan bazon de la lingvo-politiko kaj de la lingvaj rajtoj. Oni analizas du tipojn de konflikto pri lingvaj rajtoj. Unue, estas konflikto inter unuopaj rajtoj kaj rajtoj de grupoj, laü apartaj interpretoj…
Official‐language districts
1981). Official‐language districts: ‘A gesture of faith in the future of Canada’. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 334-347
The spatial analysis of Welsh culture
L’auteur propose de donner à l’analyse socio-linguistique une dimension géographique, par l’étude spatiale d’un certain nombre de facteurs socio-économiques. Ainsi le comportement linguistique des Gallois n’est plus réduit à l’effet d’un facteur politique ou religieux , mais on lui applique une analyse «écologique» en supposant que plusieurs variables contribuent à déterminer un milieu donné. Neuf composantes sont prises en considération : l’âge,…
Madoc. The making of a myth
Bilingual Districts as an Instrument in Canadian Language Policy
Accommodation of a multi-ethnic population within the territory of a single state has been recognized as a world-wide problem. Within such a society language maintenance is frequently the avenue through which cultural groups seek to preserve their identity. This paper describes and evaluates the Canadian experience of language planning by concentrating on the bilingual district, the key spatial instrument in the federal Official Languages Act. Th…
Social mobilization and nationalism in multicultural societies
The national construction of social space
Ties that bind
National Separatism
Perspectives on contemporary Welsh language maintenance
Analyse des données du dernier recensement linguistique au Pays de Galles (1981), comparaison avec les données du précédent recensement (1971), et perspectives sur le maintien de la langue. Stabilité des différentes zones géographiques (foyers de résistance — zones ceintures — zones anglicisées). Si l'on enregistre en général un déclin de 2 à. 4 %, les régions industrialisées du sud-est, du nord-est et le Radnor connaissent une remontée des gallo…
Conceived in Bondage—Called Unto Liberty
Europe's minority voices
(1985). Europe's minority voices. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development: Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 413-416
Short reviews
Parminder Bhachu, TWICE MIGRANTS: EAST AFRICAN SIKH SETTLERS IN BRITAIN, London and New York: Tavistock Publications, 1985, 205 pp., £15.95. Martin Bulmer THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY, INSTITUTIONALIZ‐ATION, DIVERSITY AND THE RISE OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press (Heritage of Sociology), 285 pp., £26.75. Philip Mason THE MEN WHO RULED INDIA, London, Jonathan Cape, 1985, xv + 368, pp., £15.00. Richard Wi…
The Land in Linguistic Consciousness
Location and context in Welsh language reproduction
Article Location and context in Welsh language reproduction: a geographic Interpretation was published on January 1, 1987 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1987, issue 66)
The mapping of language in North America and the British Isles
American Electoral Mosaics
Language in Geographic Context
The principles of territoriality and personality in the solution of linguistic conflicts
This paper examines the competing principles of territoriality and personality as key concepts in the provision of language‐related services and rights in multilingual societies. Drawing on recent legislative and sociopolitical change in Belgium, Quebec and Canada we examine to what extent the adoption of such principles actually increases or neutralises language‐related conflict. We argue that sensitive application of certain territorially‐deriv…
VI. On England's beleaguered north
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