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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"PB Ieithoedd Ewropeaidd Modern"”.
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The influence of religion on the survival of the Welsh language 1801-2011 : a tale of two centuries.
The Welsh language is derived from what has been termed “Common Celtic”, itself a derivative from an Indio-European root. In the outer regions of the Roman Empire, two branches of Celtic emerged – Brittonic (P Celtic), spoken throughout most of Britain including lowland Scotland, and Goidelic (Q …
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The Role of Dogs in Medieval Wales
This thesis explores the role of dogs in medieval Wales. References to dogs can be found in sources such as the law codes and the Mabinogion and other forms of literature, including hagiography and poetry, providing a wealth of material for understanding what kinds of dogs there were, what they …
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The Map is not the Territory: The Unconscious Moral Agent and the personal mythopoeic in the novels of Cormac McCarthy
That the unconscious ‘may be laboring under a moral compulsion to educate us,’ is a provocative theory posed by Cormac McCarthy in his recent work of non-fiction, the Kekulé Problem. He suggests that, for several million years — long pre-dating the arrival of complex language — the unconscious has …
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Early quadrilingual language acquisition: a longitudinal case study
This longitudinal study examines the early quadrilingual language acquisition of a young girl, Sofia, who was born and raised in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. Sofia was exposed to Slovak, Japanese and English from birth and Italian from the age of 18 months. In addition to investigating …
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Siaradaeth frodorol: ymchwil i’w fodolaeth posibl ymhlith athrawon yng Nghymru
Ceir ymchwil yn yr astudiaeth hon i ffenomen a elwir yn ‘native-speakerism’ ac y cyfeirir ati fel ‘siaradaeth frodorol’ ar gyfer ei thrafod yn y Gymraeg. Dechreua’r astudiaeth gyda disgrifiad o’r cyd-destun ieithyddol yng Nghymru, gan gynnwys yr ymgyrch wleidyddol i gynyddu nifer siaradwyr yr iaith …
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The Promotion of Cornish: Establishing strategies in view of the Basque experience in Trebiñu
This thesis explores the situation of Cornish and strategies that could be applied in order to restore it as a community language in Cornwall and Scilly. The first step undertaken was to determine the position and usage of Cornish in public and private domains, and speakers and non-speakers’ …
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Putting Cymru on the Map: Internationalising Children’s Publishing from Wales
This thesis examines how Welsh children’s and YA publishing can develop sustainable international engagement within a bilingual, small-nation context. As the first comprehensive study of internationalisation strategies in this sector, it investigates conditions enabling Welsh publishers to access …