Full Description
This volume brings together current research by international scholars on the varieties of English spoken in Ireland. The papers apply contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches and frameworks to a range of topics. A number of papers explore the distribution of linguistic features in Irish English, including the evolution of linguistic structures in Irish English and linguistic change in progress, employing broadly quantitative sociolinguistic approaches. Pragmatic features of Irish English are explored through corpus linguistics-based analysis. The construction of linguistic corpora using written and recorded material form the focus of other papers, extending and analyzing the growing range of corpus material available to researchers of varieties of English, including diaspora varieties. Issues of language and identity in contemporary Ireland are explored in several contributions using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The volume will be of interest to linguists generally, and to scholars with an interest in varieties of English.
Contents
1. Contact details for contributors; 2. Preface (by Migge, Bettina); 3. Is Dublin English 'Alive Alive Oh'? (by Corrigan, Karen P.); 4. Linguistic change in Galway City English: A study of phonological features in the district of Bothar Mor (by Peters, Arne); 5. ['fil m] and ['far m]?: Sociolinguistic findings on schwa epenthesis in Galway English (by Sell, Katrin); 6. The why of Belfast rises (by Sullivan, Jennifer); 7. Exploring grammatical differences between Irish and British English (by Filppula, Markku); 8. From Ireland to Newfoundland: What's the perfect after doing? (by Clarke, Sandra); 9. "A cannot get a loan for more than six years now": The relationship between modal verbs and past time reference in Irish English (by Hattum, Marije van); 10. Is it truly unique that Irish English clefts are? Quantifying the syntactic variation of it-clefts in Irish English and other post-colonial English varieties (by Beal, Kalynda); 11. The discourse marker LIKE in Irish English (by Schweinberger, Martin); 12. "I'm fine girl, and how are you?": The use of vocatives in spoken Irish English (by Murphy, Brona); 13. "It's lunacy now": A corpus-based pragmatic analysis of the use of 'now' in contemporary Irish English (by Clancy, Brian); 14. The responsive system of Irish English: Features and patterns (by Diamant, Gili); 15. A Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR): A tool for studying the history and evolution of Irish English (by McCafferty, Kevin); 16. The Irish in Argentina: Irish English transported (by Amador-Moreno, Carolina P.); 17. Irish English and recent immigrants to Ireland (by Migge, Bettina); 18. Discourse 'like' and social identity - a case study of Poles in Ireland (by Nestor, Niamh); 19. Bio Sketches; 20. Index
