Peter Garrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 89644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Garrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Garrett |
| SIGNATURE | GARRETT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6562-5349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 34 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Introduction to language awareness in professional communication contexts
The four papers in this special issue focus on four professional communication contexts, one forensic (Aldridge’s police interviews with child witnesses), two in health (Wray’s paper on the care of
In memory of Prof. Dr Carl James
With great sadness we have learned that Prof. Dr Carl James passed away on 1st November 2016, having suffered for some time from Alzheimer's disease.Carl James was one of the original members of th
International universities and implications of internationalisation for minority languages
European higher education institutions are in general highly committed to internationalisation, seeing it as providing ways into the global education market, as an indicator of academic excellence, and for generating income. In multilingual settings, minority languages are not always given adequate consideration in this process and may be a source of tension and ambiguities in the local communities and universities. We report on part of a study o…
Language policies and practices in the internationalisation of higher education on the European margins
Following Spolsky's definition of language policy, this introductory paper offers a brief reflection on the three main lines of research that are represented in this special issue regarding the relationship between internationalisation and language policies in higher education: management and planning, practices, and beliefs. In the first part, we comment on Englishisation and the establishment of multilingual policies as responses to the globali…
Teenagers’ perceptions of communication and ‘good communication’ with peers, young adults, and older adults
Taking an intergroup communication perspective, this study extends previous research into intergenerational communication. Firstly, we widen the respondent base, insofar as much previous research has tended to use college/university student respondents. Here, we asked young teenagers aged 12–16 years about their communication experiences with young adults aged 20–25 years and older adults aged 65–85 years as well as with their own peers. Secondly…
Multilingual policies and practices of universities in three bilingual regions in Europe
The interconnection between globalization and multilingualism in the evolution of European societies has become an undeniable fact. On the one hand, there seems to be a greater need for lingua francas that can facilitate understanding among individuals from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds and, ultimately, allow them to increase their chances of geographical and socio-economic mobility. On the other hand, in a world that tends to be …
Perceptions of and attitudes towards regional varieties of Polish
This paper reports a study of perceptions and attitudes relating to regional varieties of Polish. The methodology followed folk linguistic approaches to attitudes research. Respondents in two Polish provinces were asked to draw on a map of Poland where they thought the main regional varieties of Polish were spoken, and then to name and characterise these varieties in their own words. They were also asked to give correctness and social attractiven…
Attitudes to Language
Just about everyone seems to have views about language. Language attitudes and language ideologies permeate our daily lives. Our competence, intelligence, friendliness, trustworthiness, social status, group memberships, and so on, are often judged from the way we communicate. Even the speed at which we speak can evoke reactions. And we often try to anticipate such judgements as we communicate. In this lively introduction, Peter Garrett draws upon…
Linguistic landscapes, discursive frames and metacultural performance
Linguistic landscapes have, in the main, been analyzed distributionally, noting the preponderance of different language codes in particular settings. In contrast, we develop a qualitative, critical, frame-analytic account of Welsh language and culture, as displayed in texts in public spaces in Patagonia, the site of a Welsh colonial experiment in the mid-19th century. We identify three frames through which cultural values are ascribed to Wales an…
Diasporic ethnolinguistic subjectivities
A total of 956 informants with links to Wales from Patagonia, North America, and Wales itself completed a questionnaire investigating their Welsh identities and affiliation, their images of Wales, their engagement with Welsh cultural practices, and their perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Welsh language and of domain priorities for the use of Welsh. These three groups produced systematic variation across many of the issues in this…
Change of Editorship for Language Awareness
What Does the Word ‘Globalisation’ Mean to You
Political leaders, the media, business people, trade union leaders and academics continually refer to how globalisation is impacting on our lives. Governments may at times argue that globalisation benefits us, and at others attribute to globalisation many of the major problems we currently face. What do ordinary people make of all this? We do not have a systematic account of their understandings, in terms of the primary associations they make wit…
Imagining Wales and the Welsh Language
A survey of approximately 2,000 informants with links to Wales provided differentiated data on Welsh social identities and affiliation, engagement with Welsh cultural practices, and perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Welsh language and of domain priorities for Welsh. The data were interrogated mainly in relation to "flowgroups" (participants with different patterns of lived history inside and outside Wales) and groups based on deg…
Affiliation, Engagement, Language Use and Vitality
(2005). Affiliation, Engagement, Language Use and Vitality: Secondary School Students’ Subjective Orientations to Welsh and Welshness. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1-24
Globalisation, advertising and language choice
The acceleration and growth of consumerism that has accompanied globalisation has led a number of theorists to argue that social life is becoming increasingly commodified, with many social objects and processes taking on new values and significances. Taking our evidence from a 150-year sample of consumer ads from a North American Welsh community newspaper, Y Drych [The Mirror], we explore the shifting values attached to the Welsh language and to …
Attitudinal data from New Zealand, Australia, the USA and UK about each other’s Englishes
Recent attitudinal research by Bayard et al. (2001) suggested changes in the comparative evaluations of Australian, New Zealand, US and English Englishes, with US English on its way to becoming the preferred variety. We revisit these attitudes after a period of political change in the US, and using a research methodology in line with folklinguistic approaches to attitudes research (e. g. Preston 1996). Convenience samples of respondents in these …
Globalization and the Visualization of Wales and Welsh America
Globalization has led to semiotic forms in general taking on new values. We report on the trends and values of photographic images in a sample (1948–2001) of a North American newspaper ( Y Drych), established in 1851 to serve the Welsh migrant community there. For such diasporic groups, visual imagery of this kind potentially links them with their ‘roots of origin’, provides opportunities for representing their conditions and contemporary traject…
People on the Move
Home Truths
Global population flows leave some social groups dislocated from their home territories and languages. Under these conditions processes of ethnolinguistic identification can become complex and the use of a home language can take on new symbolic values. We consider the case of Welsh-affiliating people in the United States of America, and the use of the Welsh language in one particular, long-running WelshAmerican community newspaper, Y Drych (The M…
Communication Evaluations Across The Life Span
Communication Evaluations Across the Life Span
In this study, 490 community adults aged 20 to 59 evaluated their experiences with non-family members aged 13 to 16 years, 65 to 85 years, and their own age, in terms of their perceptions of both the others’ and their own communicative behavior. As well as validating previous research that suggested that nonaccommodation, accommodation, and respect/obligation are important evaluative dimensions for communication between younger and older people, …
Language attitudes and sociolinguistics
Evaluating dialect in discourse
School students (15–16 years) in six regions of Wales were recorded telling stories in their local English dialects. Some of these narratives were used as samples representing the main English dialect regions in Wales. Comparable groups of students (n = 169) and a group of teachers (n = 47) rated the audio-recorded speakers on a number of scales of affiliation, status, and Welshness. Statistical analysis of their ratings, employing cluster analys…
Perceptual dialectology, folklinguistics, and regional stereotypes
Article Perceptual dialectology, folklinguistics, and regional stereotypes: Teachers' perceptions of variation in Welsh English was published on January 1, 1996 in the journal Multilingua (volume 15, issue 2)
‘City harsh’ and ‘the welsh version of RP’
This paper summarises some of the findings from a project in progress which researches teachers’ sociolinguistic awareness in Wales. A questionnaire was sent to secondary teachers all over Wales to investigate their perceptions of, and attitudes towards, geographical varieties of Welsh English. They were asked to draw in what they felt to be the main Welsh English dialect regions on a blank map of Wales, and then to label and characterise these r…
Linguistic landscapes, discursive frames and metacultural performance
Linguistic landscapes have, in the main, been analyzed distributionally, noting the preponderance of different language codes in particular settings. In contrast, we develop a qualitative, critical, frame-analytic account of Welsh language and culture, as displayed in texts in public spaces in Patagonia, the site of a Welsh colonial experiment in the mid-19th century. We identify three frames through which cultural values are ascribed to Wales an…
Language attitudes and sociolinguistics
Home Truths
Global population flows leave some social groups dislocated from their home territories and languages. Under these conditions processes of ethnolinguistic identification can become complex and the use of a home language can take on new symbolic values. We consider the case of Welsh-affiliating people in the United States of America, and the use of the Welsh language in one particular, long-running WelshAmerican community newspaper, Y Drych (The M…
Imagining Wales and the Welsh Language
A survey of approximately 2,000 informants with links to Wales provided differentiated data on Welsh social identities and affiliation, engagement with Welsh cultural practices, and perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Welsh language and of domain priorities for Welsh. The data were interrogated mainly in relation to "flowgroups" (participants with different patterns of lived history inside and outside Wales) and groups based on deg…
Evaluating dialect in discourse
School students (15–16 years) in six regions of Wales were recorded telling stories in their local English dialects. Some of these narratives were used as samples representing the main English dialect regions in Wales. Comparable groups of students (n = 169) and a group of teachers (n = 47) rated the audio-recorded speakers on a number of scales of affiliation, status, and Welshness. Statistical analysis of their ratings, employing cluster analys…
Globalisation, advertising and language choice
The acceleration and growth of consumerism that has accompanied globalisation has led a number of theorists to argue that social life is becoming increasingly commodified, with many social objects and processes taking on new values and significances. Taking our evidence from a 150-year sample of consumer ads from a North American Welsh community newspaper, Y Drych [The Mirror], we explore the shifting values attached to the Welsh language and to …
The effects of lexical formality and accent on trait attributions
Perceptual dialectology, folklinguistics, and regional stereotypes
Article Perceptual dialectology, folklinguistics, and regional stereotypes: Teachers' perceptions of variation in Welsh English was published on January 1, 1996 in the journal Multilingua (volume 15, issue 2)
Language policies and practices in the internationalisation of higher education on the European margins
Following Spolsky's definition of language policy, this introductory paper offers a brief reflection on the three main lines of research that are represented in this special issue regarding the relationship between internationalisation and language policies in higher education: management and planning, practices, and beliefs. In the first part, we comment on Englishisation and the establishment of multilingual policies as responses to the globali…
Attitudinal data from New Zealand, Australia, the USA and UK about each other’s Englishes
Recent attitudinal research by Bayard et al. (2001) suggested changes in the comparative evaluations of Australian, New Zealand, US and English Englishes, with US English on its way to becoming the preferred variety. We revisit these attitudes after a period of political change in the US, and using a research methodology in line with folklinguistic approaches to attitudes research (e. g. Preston 1996). Convenience samples of respondents in these …
Globalization and the Visualization of Wales and Welsh America
Globalization has led to semiotic forms in general taking on new values. We report on the trends and values of photographic images in a sample (1948–2001) of a North American newspaper ( Y Drych), established in 1851 to serve the Welsh migrant community there. For such diasporic groups, visual imagery of this kind potentially links them with their ‘roots of origin’, provides opportunities for representing their conditions and contemporary traject…
The social meanings of welsh English
Research into the social meanings of Welsh, Welsh English, and Standard British English has produced mixed findings over the years. For example, Welsh English has been judged as highly as Welsh in some studies; in others, both Welsh English and Standard British English have been downgraded relative to Welsh. This study measured the evaluations of teachers all over Wales to a number of varieties of Welsh English, as well as Standard British Englis…
Sentence structure and formality
The evidence is practically unequivocal that left-branching (LB) sentences are more difficult to process than right-branching (RB) sentences. In this study, the hypothesis was tested that LB sentences are judged to be more formal than RB ones and that center-branching (CB) sentences would behave like LB ones. Three groups of subjects, university students in England, Wales, and the United States, ordered three versions of 18 sentences in terms of …
International universities and implications of internationalisation for minority languages
European higher education institutions are in general highly committed to internationalisation, seeing it as providing ways into the global education market, as an indicator of academic excellence, and for generating income. In multilingual settings, minority languages are not always given adequate consideration in this process and may be a source of tension and ambiguities in the local communities and universities. We report on part of a study o…
Accommodation and hyperaccommodation in foreign language learners
Diasporic ethnolinguistic subjectivities
A total of 956 informants with links to Wales from Patagonia, North America, and Wales itself completed a questionnaire investigating their Welsh identities and affiliation, their images of Wales, their engagement with Welsh cultural practices, and their perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Welsh language and of domain priorities for the use of Welsh. These three groups produced systematic variation across many of the issues in this…
What Does the Word ‘Globalisation’ Mean to You
Political leaders, the media, business people, trade union leaders and academics continually refer to how globalisation is impacting on our lives. Governments may at times argue that globalisation benefits us, and at others attribute to globalisation many of the major problems we currently face. What do ordinary people make of all this? We do not have a systematic account of their understandings, in terms of the primary associations they make wit…
Communication Evaluations Across The Life Span
Use of the mother‐tongue in second language classrooms
Controversy continues to surround the use of the mother‐tongue in second language classrooms. While some argue that learning a second language is like learning the first, and that the mother‐tongue therefore has no place, others claim it has an important and positive role to play. The study reported here was conducted in primary schools in two different UK bilingual settings: North Wales (Welsh/English) and Lancashire (Mirpur Punjabi/English). Du…
Welsh bilinguals' English spelling
Prioritising communicativity has resulted in increased tolerance toward imperfections in second language users’ grammar and pronunciation. Imperfect spelling however can not be disregarded, and it incurs severe social penalties. In this paper we ask whether, to what extent, and in what respects the second language English spelling of young Welsh‐English bilinguals is systematically idiosyncratic. Data are from free compositions written by 10–11 y…
Differences and similarities between and within bilingual settings
Literature on bilingualism and bilingual education frequently emphasises the dangers of assuming that bilingual situations are much the same. Whilst not dismissing such caution, this study takes attitudinal and linguistic data from two bilingual situations (Welsh/English in North Wales, and Punjabi/English in the north of England) and reports on specific similarities and differences found both between and within these situations. On most variable…
Sentence structure and formality
The evidence is practically unequivocal that left-branching (LB) sentences are more difficult to process than right-branching (RB) sentences. In this study, the hypothesis was tested that LB sentences are judged to be more formal than RB ones and that center-branching (CB) sentences would behave like LB ones. Three groups of subjects, university students in England, Wales, and the United States, ordered three versions of 18 sentences in terms of …
Differences and similarities between and within bilingual settings
Literature on bilingualism and bilingual education frequently emphasises the dangers of assuming that bilingual situations are much the same. Whilst not dismissing such caution, this study takes attitudinal and linguistic data from two bilingual situations (Welsh/English in North Wales, and Punjabi/English in the north of England) and reports on specific similarities and differences found both between and within these situations. On most variable…
Accommodation and hyperaccommodation in foreign language learners
The English genitive apostrophe
The origins of the English Genitive Apostrophe (EGA) are relatively recent, and there is evidence of considerable variation in its use by native speakers. The prescriptive rules aimed at teachers and learners are frequently not followed in written English in the natural language environment. 15 German undergraduates of English, 15 UK undergraduates of English, and 15 postgraduate EFL teacher trainees in the UK were asked to identify and grade thr…
Welsh bilinguals' English spelling
Prioritising communicativity has resulted in increased tolerance toward imperfections in second language users’ grammar and pronunciation. Imperfect spelling however can not be disregarded, and it incurs severe social penalties. In this paper we ask whether, to what extent, and in what respects the second language English spelling of young Welsh‐English bilinguals is systematically idiosyncratic. Data are from free compositions written by 10–11 y…
The social meanings of welsh English
Research into the social meanings of Welsh, Welsh English, and Standard British English has produced mixed findings over the years. For example, Welsh English has been judged as highly as Welsh in some studies; in others, both Welsh English and Standard British English have been downgraded relative to Welsh. This study measured the evaluations of teachers all over Wales to a number of varieties of Welsh English, as well as Standard British Englis…
Use of the mother‐tongue in second language classrooms
Controversy continues to surround the use of the mother‐tongue in second language classrooms. While some argue that learning a second language is like learning the first, and that the mother‐tongue therefore has no place, others claim it has an important and positive role to play. The study reported here was conducted in primary schools in two different UK bilingual settings: North Wales (Welsh/English) and Lancashire (Mirpur Punjabi/English). Du…
The effects of lexical formality and accent on trait attributions
‘City harsh’ and ‘the welsh version of RP’
This paper summarises some of the findings from a project in progress which researches teachers’ sociolinguistic awareness in Wales. A questionnaire was sent to secondary teachers all over Wales to investigate their perceptions of, and attitudes towards, geographical varieties of Welsh English. They were asked to draw in what they felt to be the main Welsh English dialect regions on a blank map of Wales, and then to label and characterise these r…
Language awareness inside and outside the classroom
(1995). Language awareness inside and outside the classroom. Language Awareness: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 177-178
Perceptual dialectology, folklinguistics, and regional stereotypes
Article Perceptual dialectology, folklinguistics, and regional stereotypes: Teachers' perceptions of variation in Welsh English was published on January 1, 1996 in the journal Multilingua (volume 15, issue 2)
Evaluating dialect in discourse
School students (15–16 years) in six regions of Wales were recorded telling stories in their local English dialects. Some of these narratives were used as samples representing the main English dialect regions in Wales. Comparable groups of students (n = 169) and a group of teachers (n = 47) rated the audio-recorded speakers on a number of scales of affiliation, status, and Welshness. Statistical analysis of their ratings, employing cluster analys…
Language attitudes and sociolinguistics
Communication Evaluations Across The Life Span
Communication Evaluations Across the Life Span
In this study, 490 community adults aged 20 to 59 evaluated their experiences with non-family members aged 13 to 16 years, 65 to 85 years, and their own age, in terms of their perceptions of both the others’ and their own communicative behavior. As well as validating previous research that suggested that nonaccommodation, accommodation, and respect/obligation are important evaluative dimensions for communication between younger and older people, …
People on the Move
Home Truths
Global population flows leave some social groups dislocated from their home territories and languages. Under these conditions processes of ethnolinguistic identification can become complex and the use of a home language can take on new symbolic values. We consider the case of Welsh-affiliating people in the United States of America, and the use of the Welsh language in one particular, long-running WelshAmerican community newspaper, Y Drych (The M…
Affiliation, Engagement, Language Use and Vitality
(2005). Affiliation, Engagement, Language Use and Vitality: Secondary School Students’ Subjective Orientations to Welsh and Welshness. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1-24
Globalisation, advertising and language choice
The acceleration and growth of consumerism that has accompanied globalisation has led a number of theorists to argue that social life is becoming increasingly commodified, with many social objects and processes taking on new values and significances. Taking our evidence from a 150-year sample of consumer ads from a North American Welsh community newspaper, Y Drych [The Mirror], we explore the shifting values attached to the Welsh language and to …
Attitudinal data from New Zealand, Australia, the USA and UK about each other’s Englishes
Recent attitudinal research by Bayard et al. (2001) suggested changes in the comparative evaluations of Australian, New Zealand, US and English Englishes, with US English on its way to becoming the preferred variety. We revisit these attitudes after a period of political change in the US, and using a research methodology in line with folklinguistic approaches to attitudes research (e. g. Preston 1996). Convenience samples of respondents in these …
Globalization and the Visualization of Wales and Welsh America
Globalization has led to semiotic forms in general taking on new values. We report on the trends and values of photographic images in a sample (1948–2001) of a North American newspaper ( Y Drych), established in 1851 to serve the Welsh migrant community there. For such diasporic groups, visual imagery of this kind potentially links them with their ‘roots of origin’, provides opportunities for representing their conditions and contemporary traject…
What Does the Word ‘Globalisation’ Mean to You
Political leaders, the media, business people, trade union leaders and academics continually refer to how globalisation is impacting on our lives. Governments may at times argue that globalisation benefits us, and at others attribute to globalisation many of the major problems we currently face. What do ordinary people make of all this? We do not have a systematic account of their understandings, in terms of the primary associations they make wit…
Imagining Wales and the Welsh Language
A survey of approximately 2,000 informants with links to Wales provided differentiated data on Welsh social identities and affiliation, engagement with Welsh cultural practices, and perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Welsh language and of domain priorities for Welsh. The data were interrogated mainly in relation to "flowgroups" (participants with different patterns of lived history inside and outside Wales) and groups based on deg…
Change of Editorship for Language Awareness
Diasporic ethnolinguistic subjectivities
A total of 956 informants with links to Wales from Patagonia, North America, and Wales itself completed a questionnaire investigating their Welsh identities and affiliation, their images of Wales, their engagement with Welsh cultural practices, and their perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Welsh language and of domain priorities for the use of Welsh. These three groups produced systematic variation across many of the issues in this…
Linguistics (27 works) · Psychology (25 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (16 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (13 works) · Welsh (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works)