ABSTRACT
This collection brings together work from scholars across sociolinguistics, World Englishes and linguistic landscapes to reflect on developments and future directions in Irish English, building on the ground-breaking contributions of Jeffrey Kallen to the discipline.
Taking their cue from Kallen’s extensive body of work on Irish English, the 20 contributors critically examine advances in the field grounded in frameworks from variationist sociolinguistics and semiotic and border studies in linguistic landscapes. Chapters cover pragmatic, cognitive sociolinguistic, sociophonetic, historical and World Englishes perspectives, as well as two chapters which explore the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland through the lens of perceptual dialectology and linguistic landscape research. Taken together, the collection showcases the significant role Kallen has played in the growth of Irish English studies as a field in its own right and the impact of this work on a new wave of researchers in the field today and beyond.
This volume will be of particular interest to scholars of varieties of English, variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic landscape research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|65 pages
Irish English: Structures and Cross-Varietal Perspectives
chapter 1|19 pages
Conservative and Innovator?
chapter 2|16 pages
‘You Are Some Foreigner – You Are Not Even from This Country’
chapter 4|17 pages
I Had the Dinner Eaten, But She Has a Tooth Gone
part II|114 pages
Irish English: Discourse and Pragmatics
chapter 6|20 pages
‘Sorry Miss, I Completely Forgot about It’
chapter 7|17 pages
Absolutely Fantastic and Really Really Good
chapter 9|15 pages
Sociophonetic Perspectives on Irish English Discourse-Pragmatic Markers
chapter 10|19 pages
Confrontational Humour in a Dublin Sports Club
part III|92 pages
Irish English: Symbols, Landscapes and Perceptions