Bernard Deacon (linguist)

Bernard W. Deacon is a Cornish multidisciplinary academic, based at the Institute of Cornish Studies of the University of Exeter at the Tremough Campus. He has an Open University doctorate and displays his thesis on the ICS website.

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. 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. In 2007, he was re-elected as Chairman of Cussel an Tavaz Kernuak (The Cornish Language Council).

In book form

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In Cornish studies
Deacon has prolific publications in learned journals. The following were published in the Institute's journal (published by the University of Exeter Press):

Work in progress

 * Cornish surnames, their origin and spread