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Dr Patrick Carlin

Overview

Patrick Carlin Position: Research Associate Email: CarlinPJ@cardiff.ac.uk
 Telephone: +44(0)29 208 74843
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74604
Extension: 74843
Location: Humanities Building

Research Interests

Dr Patrick Carlin’s main research interests lie within language policy and planning. His research up to the present has dealt with the effects of state-wide and regional multi-level governance upon efforts by subregional governments in the Basque Country, Catalonia and Wales to devise and implement language policies. Other related interests include linguistic mobilisation and political parties, critical interpretations of language planning, the sociology of language and the politics of culture.

Publications

Selection of Publications

Carlin, P. (2013). The Regional Language: Governance, Identity and Territory. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters

Carlin, P. (2012). ‘Doing as They are Told? Subregional Language Policies in the Basque Country, Catalonia and Wales’, Regional and Federal Studies [forthcoming]

Edwards, A., Tanner, D., Carlin, P. (2011). ‘The Conservative Governments and the Development of Welsh Language Policy in the 1980s and 1990s’,The Historical Journal, 54(2): 529–51

Carlin, P. (2010). ‘Banking the Book and Romancing the Rose? Nation-building and emotional reciprocity in the Festival of St Jordi’, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, 200

Research

Research Project

Patrick is currently research associate with a Welsh Assembly Government funded research project which is investigating how acquisition of the Welsh language by adults could be improved.