Having outlined this monoglot model of linguistic diversity, which illustrates that languages in any one area are undergoing perpetual and nonuniform variation, Saussure turns to languages developing in two separate areas.
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In late 1848 he criticised his own church's apparent indifference towards the Welsh-speaking population, most clearly seen in the appointment of monoglot Englishmen to ecclesiastical posts in Wales.
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The attempted conversion of the Irish to Protestantism also had few successes; at first the clerics sent to Ireland were all English speakers, whereas the native population were usually monoglot speakers of Irish Gaelic.
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While the last monoglot Irish speakers appear to have died out in the mid-19th century, neighbouring Carricknagavina saw its last native Irish speaker, Annie Quinn, die at age 105 in 1997.
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The motive behind all this activity in both France and Belgium was to assert regional specificity against growing centralism and the encroachment of the language of the capital on what had until then been predominantly monoglot areas.
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The motive among Walloon speakers in both France and Belgium was to assert regional identity against the growing centralism and encroachment of the language of the capital, on what had until then been predominantly monoglot areas.
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Taking a monoglot community as his model ( that is, a community which speaks only one language ), Saussure outlines the manner in which a language might develop and gradually undergo subdivision into distinct dialects.
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Cornish probably ceased to be spoken as a community language sometime around 1780, with the last monoglot Cornish speaker believed to be Chesten Marchant, who died in 1676 at Gwithian ( Dolly Pentreath was bilingual ).
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I picked one such article at random this morning, between two non anglophone countries ( which makes sourcing much more difficult for a monoglot such as myself ) and yet still easily established notability without breaking a sweat.
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After several years as a freelance writer and occasional lecturer, Steiner accepted the post of Professor of English and monoglot truly knows his own language . " and Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University from 2001 to 2002.
