Bernard Deacon (linguist) explained

Bernard W. Deacon
Discipline:	Cornish Studies
Notable Works:	Cornwall: the Concise History (2007)

Bernard W. Deacon is a Cornish^{[1] [2]} multidisciplinary academic, based at the Institute of Cornish Studies^[3] of the University of Exeter at the Tremough Campus. He has an Open University doctorate and displays his thesis on the ICS website.^{[4] [5]}

Academic career

Deacon has worked for the Open University and Exeter University’s Department of Lifelong Learning. In 2001, he joined the Institute of Cornish Studies and is the director of the Institute's master's degree programme in Cornish Studies.^[6] His main research interests are:

• 18th and 19th century Cornish communities
• The Cornish language and its revitalisation
• Cornwall's population and how it has changed
• How peripheral regions are governed
• Who are the Cornish and how their identity is presented

Deacon is a fluent Cornish language speaker, and represents the Institute of Cornish Studies on the Cornish Language Partnership.^{[7] [8]} In 2007, he was re-elected as Chairman of Cussel an Tavaz Kernuak (The Cornish Language Council).^{[9] [10]}

Publications

In book form

• Book: Deacon . B. . George . Andrew . Andrew George (politician). Perry . Ronald . Cornwall at the Crossroads: Living Communities or Leisure Zone?. 1988 . Cornish Social & Economic Research Group . 0-9513918-0-1.
• Book: Deacon . B. . Liskeard and its People in the 19th Century. 1989 . 0-9515355-0-1.
• Book: Deacon . B. . The Reformulation of Territorial Identity: Cornwall in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 2001 . Open University Press . 59366043 .
• Book: Cole . Dick . Dick Cole (politician). Deacon . B. . Tregidga . Garry . Garry Tregidga. Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism. 2003 . Welsh Academic Press . Cardiff . 978-1-86057-075-9 .
• Book: Deacon . B. . Holman. David . Dick Cole (politician). Schwartz . Sharon . Garry Tregidga. The Cornish Family: The Roots of our Future. 2004 . Cornwall Editions . 1-904880-01-0 .
• Book: Deacon . B. . Cornwall: The Concise History. 2007 . The Histories of Europe . . Cardiff . 978-0-7083-2032-7 . (hardback) (paperback)
• Book: Deacon . B. . Cornwall and the Cornish. 2010 . Alison Hodge . Penzance . 978-0-906720-72-1. (small format paperback, lavishly illustrated).
• Book: Deacon . B. . The Land's End? The Great Sale of Cornwall. 2013 . Cornish Social & Economic Research Group . 978-0-9513918-1-5. (paperback).

In Cornish studies

Deacon has prolific publications in learned journals.^[11] The following were published in the Institute's journal (published by the University of Exeter Press):

• Deacon . B. . Cornish or Klingon?: The Standardization of the Cornish Language. . 2nd Series . 14 . 2006 . 13–23 . 10.1386/corn.14.1.13_1 . 1352-271X . 978-0-85989-799-0 .
• Deacon . B. . From 'Cornish Studies' to 'Critical Cornish Studies': Reflections on Methodology. . 2nd Series . 12 . 2004 . 13–29. 978-0-85989-799-0 .
• Deacon . B. . Propaganda and the Tudor State or Propaganda of the Tudor Historians?. . 2nd Series . 11 . 2003 . 317–28. 0-85989-747-8 .
• Deacon . B. . The New Cornish Studies: New Discipline or Rhetorically Defined Space?. . 2nd Series . 10 . 2002 . 24–33. 0-85989-733-8 .
• Deacon . B. . In Search of the 'Missing Turn': The Spatial Dimension and Cornish Studies. . 2nd Series . 8 . 2000 . 213–30. 0-85989-682-X .
• Deacon . B. . Breaking the Chains and Forging new Links. . 2nd Series . 8 . 2000 . 231–34. 0-85989-682-X .
• Deacon . B. . A Forgotten Migration Stream: The Cornish Movement to England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century. . 2nd Series . 6 . 1998 . 96–117. 0-85989-610-2 .
• Deacon . B. . Proto-industrialization and Potatoes: A Revised Narrative for 19th century Cornwall. . 2nd Series . 5 . 1997 . 60–84. 0-85989-551-3 .
• Deacon . B. . Language Revival and Language Debate: Modernity and Postmodernity. . 2nd Series . 4 . 1996 . 88–106. 0-85989-523-8 .
• Deacon . B. . Re-inventing Cornwall: Culture Change on the European Periphery. . 2nd Series . 1 . 1993 . 62–79. 0-85989-413-4 .
• Deacon . B. . Heroic Individualists: The Cornish Miners and the Five-Week Month. . 1st Series . 14 . 1986 . 39–52.
• Deacon . B. . Attempts at Unionism by Cornish Metal Miners in 1866. . 1st Series . 10 . 1982 . 27–36.

Work in progress

• Cornish surnames, their origin and spread

External links

• The Cornish Community Programme: Working papers: includes work by Bernard Deacon.

Notes and References

1. Deacon . Bernard . 2013 . The Unimportance of Being Cornish in Cornwall . Cornish Studies . 21 . 2, 4-5, 16 . 10.1386/corn.21.1.17_1 . University of Exeter Press.
2. Web site: The Surnames of Cornwall – by Bernard Deacon . 11 March 2024 . Cornovia.
3. http://www.institutes.ex.ac.uk/ics/deacon.htm Institute of Cornish Studies website – Academic staff biographies – Bernard Deacon
4. http://www.institutes.ex.ac.uk/ics/deaconresearch.htm The thesis is available online on the ICS website.
5. He should not be confused with Bernard Deacon (anthropologist) (1903–1927), who has an ODNB article by Jeremy MacClancy, 'Deacon, (Arthur) Bernard (1903–1927)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 21 May 2008
6. http://www.institutes.ex.ac.uk/ics/ma.htm ICS Master's degree curriculum
7. See Cornwall County Council website-Cornish Language Partnership and MAGA Kernow = Partnership website
8. Payton, Philip "Introduction" to Cornish Studies No. 14 (2004), p. 2
9. http://www.magakernow.org.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=29000&p=0 Maga News, July 2007.
10. http://home.btconnect.com/htm_cornwall/ Cussel an Tavaz Kernuak
11. Some earlier publications may be found listed in the Cornwall County Library Catalogue.