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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... linguistic evidence 2.1 18th century letters 2.1.1 The Mahon letters 2.2 19th century letters 2.2.1 The Owens Letters Literary texts as linguistic evidence 3.1 The plays of Dion Boucicault 3.2 The plays of Sean O'Casey Prescriptive ...
... linguistic evidence 2.1 18th century letters 2.1.1 The Mahon letters 2.2 19th century letters 2.2.1 The Owens Letters Literary texts as linguistic evidence 3.1 The plays of Dion Boucicault 3.2 The plays of Sean O'Casey Prescriptive ...
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... linguistic norms of England was open to the population as this would have meant accepting the preferred form of language in a country which was regarded by many as having imposed its language on Ireland. Another reason why the evolution ...
... linguistic norms of England was open to the population as this would have meant accepting the preferred form of language in a country which was regarded by many as having imposed its language on Ireland. Another reason why the evolution ...
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... Linguistic and geographical terms in Ireland Irish English Cover term for English in Ireland which can be more closely specified when needed. Hiberno-English Latinate term for English in Ireland; similar to above. Anglo-Irish Older term ...
... Linguistic and geographical terms in Ireland Irish English Cover term for English in Ireland which can be more closely specified when needed. Hiberno-English Latinate term for English in Ireland; similar to above. Anglo-Irish Older term ...
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... linguistically salient sections of the capital city (this can be seen features of their speech). The two issues, upward social movement ar dissociation from groups below (in the vertical social sense), may well go bar in hand, though ...
... linguistically salient sections of the capital city (this can be seen features of their speech). The two issues, upward social movement ar dissociation from groups below (in the vertical social sense), may well go bar in hand, though ...
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... linguistically. The two variables which were of primary interest for the investigation are (ai) and (oi), the former having played a somewhat more important role as the vowel shift would seem from the earliest observations to have been ...
... linguistically. The two variables which were of primary interest for the investigation are (ai) and (oi), the former having played a somewhat more important role as the vowel shift would seem from the earliest observations to have been ...
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