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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... different groups in Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland, and to ... varieties of urban English. Another reason is that a major change in the ... Irish English by Dublin writers as well as prescriptive comments on language ...
... different groups in Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland, and to ... varieties of urban English. Another reason is that a major change in the ... Irish English by Dublin writers as well as prescriptive comments on language ...
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... different forms of Dublin English, who in many conversations provided attestations ... Irish English and A Survey of Irish English Usage (see Hickey 2004d for ... Varieties of English Around the World. Finally my thanks go to Kees Vaes at ...
... different forms of Dublin English, who in many conversations provided attestations ... Irish English and A Survey of Irish English Usage (see Hickey 2004d for ... Varieties of English Around the World. Finally my thanks go to Kees Vaes at ...
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... Irish English in this book is intended as a cover term and not as a reference to a specific variety of English on the island of Ireland. The most common term used for English in Ireland in the past has been 'Anglo-Irish'. This term is ...
... Irish English in this book is intended as a cover term and not as a reference to a specific variety of English on the island of Ireland. The most common term used for English in Ireland in the past has been 'Anglo-Irish'. This term is ...
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... which the Irish show with varieties of standard English, no matter how much they may use forms approximating to these themselves. The clear division between Irish and English in Ireland has I INVESTIGATING DUBLIN ENGLISH 3.
... which the Irish show with varieties of standard English, no matter how much they may use forms approximating to these themselves. The clear division between Irish and English in Ireland has I INVESTIGATING DUBLIN ENGLISH 3.
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Evolution and change Raymond Hickey. The clear division between Irish and English in Ireland has meant that no ... different situation, given that, as the state of Northern Ireland, it is part of the United Kingdom and given that it has a ...
Evolution and change Raymond Hickey. The clear division between Irish and English in Ireland has meant that no ... different situation, given that, as the state of Northern Ireland, it is part of the United Kingdom and given that it has a ...
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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Common terms and phrases
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