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Public Policy and Normative Language: Utility, Community and Nation in the Debate over the Construction of Tryweryn Reservoir
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| Title: | Public Policy and Normative Language: Utility, Community and Nation in the Debate over the Construction of Tryweryn Reservoir |
| Authors: | Cunningham, Mike |
| Citation: | Parliamentary Affairs, 60(4): 625-636 |
| Publisher: | Oxford: Oxford University Press |
| Journal: | Parliamentary Affairs |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27186 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/pa/gsm037 |
| Additional Links: | http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/60/4/625 |
| Abstract: | The flooding of the community of Capel Celyn in North Wales to create a reservoir in the early 1960s to provide water for Liverpool provoked much opposition in Wales and among Welsh representatives. This article examines the competing normative language, including the concepts utility, community and nation, which was used to justify and to attack the policy. In conclusion, it is argued that the policy can be held to have been unjust because of the inadequacy of Welsh representative institutions and the lack of recognition of the Welsh language in this period. |
| Type: | Article |
| Language: | en |
| Keywords: | Public policy
British history
20th century
Normative language
Welsh language
Tryweryn Reservoir
Capel Celyn
Water supply
Sociolinguistics |
| ISSN: | 00312290
00312290 |
| Appears in Collections: | Conflict Studies Research Group
History
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