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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... language--Ireland--Dublin. 2. English language--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 ...
... language--Ireland--Dublin. 2. English language--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 ...
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... language as spoken by different groups in Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland, and to outline the history of English in that city since its first arrival several hundred years ago. There are many reasons for wishing to ...
... language as spoken by different groups in Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland, and to outline the history of English in that city since its first arrival several hundred years ago. There are many reasons for wishing to ...
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... language in their city. Beyond this smaller group is a much a larger one, consisting of those who cooperated in the large-scale surveys A Sound Atlas of Irish English and A Survey of Irish English Usage (see Hickey 2004d for details) ...
... language in their city. Beyond this smaller group is a much a larger one, consisting of those who cooperated in the large-scale surveys A Sound Atlas of Irish English and A Survey of Irish English Usage (see Hickey 2004d for details) ...
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... language in a country which was regarded by many as having imposed its language on Ireland. Another reason why the evolution of Dublin English is of general interest is that it offers insights into historical processes which are assumed ...
... language in a country which was regarded by many as having imposed its language on Ireland. Another reason why the evolution of Dublin English is of general interest is that it offers insights into historical processes which are assumed ...
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... language of Irish cultural heritage, although it has been the native language of the majority of the Irish population since at least the mid-19th century. This distinction is reserved for the Irish language, a branch of Celtic which has ...
... language of Irish cultural heritage, although it has been the native language of the majority of the Irish population since at least the mid-19th century. This distinction is reserved for the Irish language, a branch of Celtic which has ...
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