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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... first arrival several hundred years ago. There are many reasons for wishing to describe English in Dublin. The most obvious is that there is no published book on the subject to date and so the present work can hopefully fill a gap in ...
... first arrival several hundred years ago. There are many reasons for wishing to describe English in Dublin. The most obvious is that there is no published book on the subject to date and so the present work can hopefully fill a gap in ...
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... first group consists of those who use tl inherited popular form of English in the capital. The term 'local', as use already, is intended to capture this and to emphasise that these speakers a1 those who show strongest identification ...
... first group consists of those who use tl inherited popular form of English in the capital. The term 'local', as use already, is intended to capture this and to emphasise that these speakers a1 those who show strongest identification ...
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... first project were published in a series of articles in the late 1990s (Hickey 1998, 1999a, 20000) and those from the second are available in Hickey (2004d). The first project was initiated after observations on changes in pronunciation ...
... first project were published in a series of articles in the late 1990s (Hickey 1998, 1999a, 20000) and those from the second are available in Hickey (2004d). The first project was initiated after observations on changes in pronunciation ...
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... first stage of the collection consisted of examining unconscious answers of shop assistants to various questions from the present author. The method employed was essentially similar to that used by Labov for his classic investigation of ...
... first stage of the collection consisted of examining unconscious answers of shop assistants to various questions from the present author. The method employed was essentially similar to that used by Labov for his classic investigation of ...
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... first is where the informant does not know that an interview is taking place. The second is where he/she does, but the name of the informant is not known to the author. The purpose of rapid anonymous interviews in the Dublin context was ...
... first is where the informant does not know that an interview is taking place. The second is where he/she does, but the name of the informant is not known to the author. The purpose of rapid anonymous interviews in the Dublin context was ...
Contents
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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 |
Index | 261 |
Soundfiles referred to in book | 269 |
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19th century accent alveolar stops Atlas of Irish attested back vowels Bargy BOYLE British English capital CD-ROM changes in Dublin Cork definitely dental Dentalisation dialect diphthong diphthongisation Discover Dublin English dissociation Dublin vowel shift early modern English in Ireland epenthesis Estuary English female figures final find first forms of English fricatives habitual Hickey infinitives influence instance intervocalic Irish English Irish language language lexical diffusion lexical set linguistic long vowel mainstream Dublin English mainstream speakers mainstream varieties Neogrammarian non-Dublin non-standard option phonetic phonological popular Dublin English position present-day Dublin English programme pronoun pronunciation raising realisation Received Pronunciation recognised recordings Republic of Ireland retraction rhotic rural sentences Sheridan short vowels significant Sound Atlas sound files southern British English specific speech term test persons typical Ulster Scots unstressed varieties of English varieties of Irish velarised vernacular vowel shift word word-final