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John Aitchison & Harold Carter (eds.), Spreading the word: The Welsh language 2001

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2006

NIKOLAS COUPLAND
NIKOLAS COUPLAND
Affiliation:
Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3EU, coupland@cardiff.ac.uk
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John Aitchison & Harold Carter (eds.), Spreading the word: The Welsh language 2001. Talybont, Ceredigion: Y Lolfa Cyf., 2004. Pp. 160. Pb. £8.95.

For three decades, John Aitchison and Harold Carter (A&C) have shouldered principal responsibility for interpreting the results of the decennial UK census as it relates to the use of the Welsh language in Wales. In this book A&C give their account of the 2001 census data on Welsh. First-level analysis of the 2001 data is available through an excellent government web site – http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/ – but A&C's further, mainly geographically based analyses have become the standard resource for reading patterns of Welsh language maintenance and shift.

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Language in Society , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , July 2006 , pp. 449 - 453
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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REFERENCE

Coupland, Nikolas; Bishop, Hywel; Evans, Betsy; & Garrett, Peter (in press). Imagining Wales and the Welsh language: Ethnolinguistic subjectivities and demographic flow. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.