This is a detailed analysis of Welsh-language use, based on data collected in 1996. It is one of the first detailed empirical studies of a European minority language, and brings to the analysis an innovative and challenging blend of philosophy, sociolinguistics, history and economics.
Delyth Morris is a senior lecturer in sociology and spatial policy at the School of Social Sciences at Bangor University.
Glyn Williams is Director of Research Centre Wales and Reader in Sociology at University of Wales Bangor. His many publications include
The Welsh in Patagonia: The State and the Ethnic Community (UWP),
Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales, (Routledge and Kegan Paul),
Sociolinguistics: A Sociological Critique, (Routledge),
French Discourse Analysis: The Method of Poststructuralism. (Routledge).
Delyth Morris is Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at University of Wales Bangor and an Associate Director of Research Centre Wales. She has published on minority languages, gender, and economic restructuring in Wales.