Irish English
History and present-day forms
Raymond Hickey
Cambridge University Press, September 2007, xx and 504 pages.
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This book offers an overview of the history of Irish English from the late Middle Ages to the present-day. It deals with the English language in both the south of Ireland and Ulster (which contains Northern Ireland). Apart from presenting a factual overview of Irish English, emphasis has put been on issues which are of general interest to scholars in the field of variety studies. So there are chapters on current sociolinguistic developments in the capital Dublin as well as sections on language contact and shift in which various linguistic models are examined critically and evaluated. The use of Irish English in literature and the transportation of varieties of Irish English overseas during the colonial period are also dealt with.
Table of Contents
1 |
Introduction |
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2.1 |
External developments |
2.2 |
Languages in medieval Ireland |
2.3 |
A singular document: the Kildare Poems |
2.4 |
The antiquarian temptation: Forth and Bargy |
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3.1 |
Background |
3.2 |
Scottish and English immigration |
3.3 |
Ulster Scots |
3.4 |
Ulster English |
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4.1 |
Language shift in Ireland |
4.2 |
The case for contact |
4.3 |
Structural features of Irish |
4.4 |
The grammar of Irish English |
4.5 |
Retention and convergence |
4.6 |
Ireland as a linguistic area |
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5.1 |
The development of pronunciation |
5.2 |
Rural Irish English |
5.3 |
Supraregional Irish English |
5.1 |
Belfast |
5.2 |
Derry |
5.3 |
Coleraine |
5.4 |
Dublin |
5.5 |
The Irish English lexicon |
5.6 |
The pragmatics of Irish English |
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6.1 |
The Irish in Britain |
6.1.1 |
Merseyside |
6.1.2 |
Tyneside |
6.1.3 |
Scotland |
6.2 |
The United States |
6.2.1 |
Ulster Scots in the United States |
6.2.2 |
19th century emigration |
6.2.3 |
African American English |
6.3 |
Canada |
6.3.1 |
Newfoundland |
6.3.2 |
Mainland Canada |
6.4 |
The Caribbean |
6.4.1 |
The case of Barbados |
6.5 |
Australia |
6.6 |
New Zealand |
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