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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... Dialects-Ireland--Dublin. 3. English language--Variation--Ireland--Dublin. 4. Dublin (Ireland)--Languages. I. Title. II. Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 35. PE2476.H53 2005 427i941835——dc22 2005050258 ISBN 90 ...
... Dialects-Ireland--Dublin. 3. English language--Variation--Ireland--Dublin. 4. Dublin (Ireland)--Languages. I. Title. II. Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 35. PE2476.H53 2005 427i941835——dc22 2005050258 ISBN 90 ...
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... dialect regions 3.4 Results of dialect divisions 3.5 Evaluation of dialect regions The wider context 4.1 English in Belfast 4.2 English in Derry 4.3 Dublin and northern cities 4.4 Dublin and London 4.5 New towns and new suburbs 4.6 Non ...
... dialect regions 3.4 Results of dialect divisions 3.5 Evaluation of dialect regions The wider context 4.1 English in Belfast 4.2 English in Derry 4.3 Dublin and northern cities 4.4 Dublin and London 4.5 New towns and new suburbs 4.6 Non ...
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... dialect of Fingal 6.3 The dialect of Forth and Bargy 149 150 151 152 154 155 156 157 158 160 160 162 164 166 167 173 178 178 179 181 183 186 187 188 189 189 192 193 194 194 196 198 7 Supraregionalisation 7.1 Vemacularisation 7.2 Extinct ...
... dialect of Fingal 6.3 The dialect of Forth and Bargy 149 150 151 152 154 155 156 157 158 160 160 162 164 166 167 173 178 178 179 181 183 186 187 188 189 189 192 193 194 194 196 198 7 Supraregionalisation 7.1 Vemacularisation 7.2 Extinct ...
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... dialect levelling (Williams and Kerswill 1999) or an incipient approximation to any British standard. A clear example of this is seen in the following case. Most female members of the ground staff, under approximately 30, at Dublin ...
... dialect levelling (Williams and Kerswill 1999) or an incipient approximation to any British standard. A clear example of this is seen in the following case. Most female members of the ground staff, under approximately 30, at Dublin ...
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... dialects which stretch from Waterford in the south-east up to Dublin and beyond to Drogheda and Dundalk, an area which corresponds to the original settlement area of the first Normans in the late 12th century and the only area in ...
... dialects which stretch from Waterford in the south-east up to Dublin and beyond to Drogheda and Dundalk, an area which corresponds to the original settlement area of the first Normans in the late 12th century and the only area in ...
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