Dublin English: Evolution and ChangeThe present book describes the English language in all its facets as spoken in present-day Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. It covers the entire range of its history since the first arrival of English there several hundred years ago. Apart from the evolution of English in the capital, the book also concentrates on the significant changes which have been taking place in the speech of Dublin in the past 15 years or so. The rapid change of Dublin English is seen as a correlate to the many social and economic developments which have occurred in recent years. The type of linguistic change in Dublin is driven by dissociation (the mirror-image of accommodation) and will be of particular interest to scholars working within the 'language variation and change' framework as it will to those more generally concerned with varieties of English and their specific profiles vis à vis more standard forms of English. |
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Contents
I Investigating Dublin English | 1 |
2 Collecting data | 8 |
II English in presentday Dublin | 27 |
2 Recent changes in Dublin English | 45 |
3 Attitudes to Dublin English | 92 |
4 The wider context | 107 |
5 The grammar of Dublin English | 115 |
6 The vocabulary of Dublin English | 133 |
4 Prescriptive comments by Dublin authors | 178 |
5 Early modern Dublin English | 189 |
6 Medieval Irish English | 194 |
7 Supraregionalisation | 202 |
IV Guide to the CDROM | 211 |
V Lexical sets for Dublin English | 225 |
VI Glossary | 233 |
Maps | 239 |
7 Placenames in Dublin | 146 |
III Reaching back in time | 149 |
1 The history of English in Ireland | 150 |
2 Letters as linguistic evidence | 158 |
3 Literary texts as linguistic evidence | 166 |
References | 243 |
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