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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... recordings 2.8 Organisation of the recordings 2.9 Obtaining recordings for Dublin English 2.10 Sample sentences with lexical sets 2.11 Free text 2.12 Word list II English in present-day Dublin 1 Introduction 1.1 How can one tell a ...
... recordings 2.8 Organisation of the recordings 2.9 Obtaining recordings for Dublin English 2.10 Sample sentences with lexical sets 2.11 Free text 2.12 Word list II English in present-day Dublin 1 Introduction 1.1 How can one tell a ...
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... recordings of Dublin English used for the current study. The data consists of over 300 sound files, over 200 survey questionnaires and informants' maps and over 100 spoken assessment tests. By means of the supplied software users can ...
... recordings of Dublin English used for the current study. The data consists of over 300 sound files, over 200 survey questionnaires and informants' maps and over 100 spoken assessment tests. By means of the supplied software users can ...
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... recordings to back up, or in some cases, refute assumptions about Dublin English. My thanks also go to Prof. Edgar Schneider for his advice and constructive criticism on this book at earlier stages and for his readiness to accept it ...
... recordings to back up, or in some cases, refute assumptions about Dublin English. My thanks also go to Prof. Edgar Schneider for his advice and constructive criticism on this book at earlier stages and for his readiness to accept it ...
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... recordings for the entire country were actually from the capital. The project did not set out to confirm any ... recording of current changes in English, particularly in the Republic of Ireland, disseminating from the capital Dublin, was ...
... recordings for the entire country were actually from the capital. The project did not set out to confirm any ... recording of current changes in English, particularly in the Republic of Ireland, disseminating from the capital Dublin, was ...
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... recording was chosen. This is indeed the case. The author began recording in the mid 19905 using a variant of the 'rapid anonymous interview' (Labov 1966). There are two types of anonymous interviews. The first is where the informant ...
... recording was chosen. This is indeed the case. The author began recording in the mid 19905 using a variant of the 'rapid anonymous interview' (Labov 1966). There are two types of anonymous interviews. The first is where the informant ...
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