This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the range of varieties of English spoken on the island of Ireland. It explores the historical background and structural features of Irish English, alongside sociolinguistic considerations, and will be of interest to readers in fields of varieties of English, Irish studies, and sociolinguistics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part I. A framework for Irish English
- 1: Raymond Hickey: Irish English in today's world
- 2: Patricia Ronan: Language in Early Ireland
- 3: Raymond Hickey: The history of English in Ireland, 1200-1800
- 4: Marije van Hattum: Irish English in the nineteenth century
- 5: Liam Mac Mathúna: Irish-English bilingualism
- 6: Raymond Hickey: Contact between Irish and English
- Part II. Investigating Irish English
- 7: Raymond Hickey: The pronunciation of English in Ireland
- 8: Markku Filppula: The grammar of Irish English
- 9: John Kirk: The vocabulary of Irish English
- 10: Warren Maguire: Mid-Ulster English and Ulster Scots
- 11: Raymond Hickey: Urban English in Northern Ireland
- 12: Anne O'Keeffe: Irish English corpus linguistics
- 13: Joan O'Sullivan: Irish English in advertising
- 14: Shane Walshe: Irish English in the media
- 15: Kevin McCafferty and Carolina P. Amador-Moreno: Emigrant letters from Ireland
- Part III. Irish English in use
- 16: Marion Schulte: Dublin English and third wave sociolinguistics
- 17: Arne Peters: Irish English in Galway city
- 18: Nicola J. Bessell: Irish English in Cork city
- 19: Anne Barron: Irish English and variational pragmatics
- 20: Carolina P. Amador-Moreno: Discourse-pragmatic markers in Irish English
- 21: Elaine Vaughan: Politeness strategies in Irish English
- 22: Raymond Hickey: The language of Irish literature in English
- Part IV. Language and the Irish diaspora
- 23: Raymond Hickey: The spread of Irish English
- 24: Sandra Clarke: From Ireland to Newfoundland
- 25: Simon Musgrave and Kate Burridge: Irish influence on Australian English
- 26: Dania Bonness: The language of nineteenth-century immigrants to New Zealand
- Part V. The wider context
- 27: Stephen Lucek: Perceptions of Irish English
- 28: Chloé Diskin-Holdaway: Acquisition of Irish English
- 29: Brian Clancy: Language and Irish Travellers
- 30: Susanne Mohr and Lorraine Leeson: Irish Sign Language: Ireland's third language
- Glossary
