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their lives by the year 2050, but in all probability the developments witnessed in recent
decades will continue to transform our everyday lives. We see how globalisation, mobility,
and more varied interpretations of concepts such as the family unit and ‘community’ have led
to far-reaching changes. We also see how developments
in technology offer new ways of carrying out our work and communicating with each other. At
the same time, these changes have not replaced the importance of communities which are defined
by geography, social networks based on face-to-face communication, and the key role of
households as the focus of family life.
As we develop our long-term programme for the Welsh language, therefore, our aim is to
ensure that our language planning objectives and approaches demonstrate an understanding of
how speakers use language in the wider context of how they interact and relate to each other.
Sociolinguistic research has focused increasingly during the last two decades on how speakers
use their linguistic resources – and define their linguistic identities – in a variety of networks and
environments where the boundaries are often fluid (Heller 2011, Pennycook 2010; Pietikäinen
2013; Martin-Jones and Martin 2017). This interpretation of speakers as users of a range of
different language resources, and as participants in a variety of networks and communities of
speakers,
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