Rydw i'n swyddog ymchwil ar y Tîm Ymchwil Agwedd Iaith. Diben ein hymchwil yw gwella ein dealltwriaeth o'r berthynas rhwng agweddau siaradwyr a defnydd iaith rhwng gwahanol gymunedau o siaradwyr gan ddefnyddio dulliau echblyg ac ymhlyg.

Mae gen i ddiddordeb hefyd mewn polisi a chynnal iaith, maes sy'n perthyn yn agos i agweddau a defnydd iaith. Yn benodol, archwilio defnydd iaith plant, newydd-ddyfodiaid a busnesau ar draw sawl cymuned yng Ngogledd Cymru.

Roedd fy ymchwil doethurol ym maes amrywio a newid ieithyddol, ym archwilio sosioseineg Cymraeg Caerdydd. Yn fwy diweddar, rydw i wedi gweithio ar wahanol amrywiadau o Saesneg De Cymru mewn trefi tu allan o Gaerdydd.

Ebost: ianto.gruffydd@bangor.ac.uk

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  • PhD: Astudiaeth o amrywio ieithyddol yng nghyd-destun adfywio ieithyddol yng Nghymraeg Caerdydd
    School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University, 2017–2022
  • BA: Cymraeg
    School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University, 2014–2017

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  • Pushing boundaries in the measurement of language attitudes: Combining new technology and standardising practice

    Paper presented at Linguistics Beyond and Within 2023:

    Speakers’ attitudes are considered a fundamental barometer for the current and future vitality of a language, with recent work emphasising the importance of methodological developments (Kircher & Zipp, 2022). This, together with the growing concern surrounding the replicability of results across the social sciences, including in linguistics (Grieve, 2021), calls for urgent developments in research practices, including the adoption of more consistent and comparable implementations of method. In this paper, we present a series of studies conducted using a newly developed digital application for the collection, storage and transfer of data for research in multilingualism and language attitudes, specifically designed for research in bilingual populations who speak a majority language and a regional/minority/heritage language. This application offers the fundamental benefit of enhancing consistency and comparability within and across studies, which also improves reproducibility, for example by ensuring that presentation of stimuli for a speaker evaluation paradigm (Lambert et al., 1960) is more strictly controlled both across participants and across studies. As the source code is publicly available and version-controlled, other researchers can easily view and reconstruct tasks exactly as they were administered. The application was recently employed across three European communities whose regional/minority languages receive radically different degrees of socio-political recognition: Lombard (Italy), Moselle Franconian (Belgium), and Welsh (UK).Our results reveal fundamental differences in attitude scores depending on measurement type (questionnaire vs. speaker evaluation paradigm). Besides reinforcing the view that different measurements are likely to tap on different attitudinal constructs (e.g., Pantos, 2019), these results also suggest that different measurement methods may gather data on different attitude objects. We argue that this highlights a need for a more holistic approach to the measurement of language attitudes, where a battery of tests – as opposed to a single measure – should become the norm, as it has done in other research areas.

    13 Hyd 2023

    Cysylltau:

    Gweithgaredd: Cyflwyniad llafar (Siaradwr)
  • A matter of strength: Language policy, attitudes, and linguistic dominance in three bilingual communities

    Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education

    12 Hyd 2023

    Cysylltau:

    Gweithgaredd: Cyflwyniad llafar (Siaradwr)
  • New developments in documenting attitudes in minority and heritage language situations: an Italian case-study

    Paper presented at Documenting languages, Documenting Cultures 2023. The conference focuses on the topic of language documentation from the various perspectives offered by different ‘minority’ situations (migrant languages, minority languages, dialects). Its aim is to provide an interdisciplinary look at a topic which is today the focus of renewed interest, both in epistemological and theoretical terms.

    6 Hyd 2023

    Cysylltau:

    Gweithgaredd: Cyflwyniad llafar (Siaradwr)
  • Beth rydych yn ei feddwl go iawn am y Gymraeg?

    Cyflwyniad allgymorth cyhoeddus yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Llŷn ac Eifionydd 2023

    12 Awst 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Siaradwr)
  • New avenues in collecting attitudinal data on regional/minority languages: the case of Welsh

    Paper presented at the Welsh Linguistics Seminar

    27 Meh 2023

    Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)

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