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In this book Michael P. Hornsby-Smith reflects on nearly eight
decades as a Roman Catholic. This has been a period of great
turmoil from the depression years in pre-war England, through
childhood years and the Second World War in Scotland, post-war
social and religious changes, to the fears of global climate change
and financial meltdown at the end of the first decade in the
twenty-first century. The author traces his Catholicism from his
Irish ancestors and reflects on his wartime years during the blitz
in Glasgow and subsequently without both parents away in the
services. He describes his Catholic education at five schools in
Scotland and London and his seven years at Sheffield University
where his membership of the Catholic Padley Society and of the
Union of Catholic Students were crucial for his formation as a
committed Catholic layman. Five chapters review different aspects
of the life of the layman juggling the often conflicting demands of
marriage and family life, earning a living, participation in
politics and civil society organisations, seeking justice and peace
and participation in parish life. A final chapter reflects on the
purpose of our lives, from birth 'there' to death eternity, affirms
the lay vocation and concludes with a plea to those of his
grandchildren's generation to celebrate the Good News of our
salvation and commit themselves to follow Jesus to seek to bring
closer the Kingdom of God 'on earth as in heaven'. Michael P.
Hornsby-Smith is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University
of Surrey. He is the author, co-author or editor of nine books
mainly dealing with the social and religious transformations of
English Catholicism since the Second World War and the Second
Vatican Council. He has held senior positions in the International
Society for the Sociology of Religion and has been active in
numerous Catholic organisations. This book is addressed in
particular to those of his six grandchildren's generation. It also
celebrates his golden wedding anniversary with his wife, Lennie.
This volume provides a unique interface between the material and
linguistic aspects of communication, education and language use,
and cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, drawing on
fields as varied as applied linguistics, ethnology, sociology,
history and philosophy. Taking texts, images and objects as their
starting points, the authors discuss how cultural context is
envisioned in particular materialities and in a variety of contexts
and localities. The volume, divided into three sections, aims to
deal with material culture not only in the daily language practices
of the past and the present, but also language teaching in a number
of settings. The main thrust of the volume, then, is the exposure
of natural ties between language, cognition, identity and the
material world. Aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars
in fields as varied as education, applied linguistics,
sociolinguistics, semiotics and other related disciplines, this
volume documents and analyses a wide range of case studies. It
provides a unique take on multilingualism and expands our
understanding of how materialities permit us new and unexpected
insights into multilingual practices.
This volume provides a unique interface between the material and
linguistic aspects of communication, education and language use,
and cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, drawing on
fields as varied as applied linguistics, ethnology, sociology,
history and philosophy. Taking texts, images and objects as their
starting points, the authors discuss how cultural context is
envisioned in particular materialities and in a variety of contexts
and localities. The volume, divided into three sections, aims to
deal with material culture not only in the daily language practices
of the past and the present, but also language teaching in a number
of settings. The main thrust of the volume, then, is the exposure
of natural ties between language, cognition, identity and the
material world. Aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars
in fields as varied as education, applied linguistics,
sociolinguistics, semiotics and other related disciplines, this
volume documents and analyses a wide range of case studies. It
provides a unique take on multilingualism and expands our
understanding of how materialities permit us new and unexpected
insights into multilingual practices.
New speakers are an increasingly important aspect of the
revitalization of minority languages since, in some cases, they can
make up the majority of the language community in question. This
volume examines this phenomenon from the viewpoint of three
minority languages: Breton, Yiddish and Lemko.
This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the
transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a
range of sociolinguistic contexts. When traditional modes of
intergenerational transmission begin to break down, minority
language and diaspora communities resort to other modes of
transmission, out of necessity, to complement traditional
mechanisms and secure language maintenance. This volume brings
together a broad range of studies of these alternative modes of
transmission, examining the complex and diverse practical,
ideological and personal challenges that arise in different
settings. Beyond addressing the dynamics of language use within the
home and family, the book also emphasises the importance of the
participation of the minority community itself in language and
cultural transmission. These mechanisms and initiatives, sometimes
overlooked or dismissed in the academic literature, will prove to
be essential in maintaining and ensuring the survival of minority
and heritage languages into the 21st century and beyond. The twelve
chapters in the book are divided into four sections
(intergenerational transmission; transmission in post-traditional
families; alternatives to 'traditional' transmission; and
transmission in diasporic contexts), and the language contexts,
both minoritised and diasporic, which are discussed include Basque,
Breton, Galician, Guernesais, Irish, Maori, Russian, Scottish
Gaelic, Sorbian and Spanish. This book will be of interest to
students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language acquisition,
heritage language maintenance and revitalization, and language
policy and planning.
This book represents the first collection specifically devoted to
New Speaker Studies, focusing on language ideologies and practices
of speakers in a variety of minority language communities. Over
thirteen chapters, it uses the new speaker lens to investigate not
only linguistic issues, such as language variation and change,
phonetics, morphosyntax, language acquisition, code-switching, but
also sociolinguistic issues, such as legitimacy, integration, and
motivation in language learning and use. Besides covering a range
of languages - Basque, Breton, Galician, Giernesiei, Irish,
Scottish Gaelic and Welsh - and their different sociolinguistic
situations, the chapters also encompass a series of interactional
settings: institutional settings, media and the home domain, as
well as different contexts for becoming a new speaker of a minority
language, such as by migration or through education. This
collection represents an output by a lively network of researchers:
it will appeal to postgraduate students, researchers and academics
working in the field of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics,
language policy and those working within minority language
communities.
In the year 2000, Catholics in England will celebrate not only the
second millennial anniversary of Christ's birth, but also the 150th
anniversary of the restoration of the Roman Catholic hierarchy of
England and Wales following the post-Reformation penal times. The
centenary in 1950 was celebrated with much reflection, but what has
happened in the momentous half-century since, which has seen the
development of a post-war world and the transformation of the
Second Vatican Council? This book offers a comprehensive collection
of research based evidence, about the huge social and religious
transformations which Catholics have experienced during this
period. It includes: historical perspectives of the period;
testimonies by key participants in post-war instutitional
Catholicism, including Papal Commission on Birth Control, World
Congresses of the Laity in Rome and a variety of experiences in
Catholic organizations and public life; empirical studies of
English Catholicism from sociological perspectives; concluding
reflections and prospects for the new millennium. Together, these
contributions form a comprehensive base from which to interpret the
past and to consider the future of Catholics in England.
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