Welcome to Episode 71 of Lexis. Lisa, Dan and guest presenter Amanda Cole talk to Professor Mercedes Durham, from the Centre for Language and Communication, Cardiff University about her work on Welsh English.We talk about:<ul><li>The Leverhulme Trust project "Sociolinguistic Variation in South East Wales: Change and Contact"</li><li>What makes Welsh English distinctive</li><li>Varieties of Welsh English and how they’ve come to be</li><li>Attitudes to Welsh English accents</li><li>The power of Gavin and Stacey</li><li>Charlotte from The Traitors</li><li>The Speak For Yersel project that links Welsh English to other varieties around the UK and Ireland</li></ul>Mercedes Durham’s Cardiff University profile page: <a href="https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/durhamm">https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/durhamm</a> Some of the coverage of the ongoing work: <a href="https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2684264-whats-occurin-dialects-in-barry,-caerphilly-and-pontypridd-subject-of-academic-study">https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2684264-whats-occurin-dialects-in-barry,-caerphilly-and-pontypridd-subject-of-academic-study</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2kd0edjl5po">Welsh accents: Is commuting changing how people speak? - BBC News</a><a href="https://nation.cymru/feature/wenglish-experts-research-how-the-english-language-is-used-in-day-to-day-life-in-wales/">Wenglish: Experts research how the English language is used in day-to-day life in Wales</a> <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-traitors-how-trustworthy-is-a-welsh-accent-a-sociolinguist-explains-246744">The Traitors: how trustworthy is a Welsh accent? A sociolinguist explains</a><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66464173">Welsh language: Is mixing with English causing &#39;erosion&#39;? - BBC News</a>   The Speak For Yersel pages:<a href="https://speakforyersel.ac.uk/wales/">https://speakforyersel.ac.uk/wales/</a> <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/arts/aboutus/news/headline_1122250_en.html">University of Glasgow - Colleges - College of Arts & Humanities - About Us - College of Arts & Humanities news - Your voice needed as language survey expands to Ireland and Wales</a> Mercedes’ favourite book about language: <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/language-and-gender-a-reader-2e-j-coates/3651256?ean=9781405191272">https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/language-and-gender-a-reader-2e-j-coates/3651256?ean=9781405191272</a> Lexis is on Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social</a> ContributorsLisa Casey blog: <a href="https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/">https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/</a> & Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LanguageDebates">Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)</a>Dan Clayton blog: <a href="http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/">EngLangBlog</a> & Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social</a> Jacky Glancey Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey">https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey</a>Raj RanaMatthew Butler Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA">https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA</a> Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys">https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys</a>

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