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Back to the publications homepage An Introduction to Irish English by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno Series: Equinox Textbooks and Surveys in Linguistics, edited by Professor Robin Fawcett, Cardiff University
Subject: Linguistics
Readership: University teachers; undergraduate and postgraduate students
Pub date: April 2010 244 x 169mm, 208pp, 4 illustrations
ISBN: PB 978 1 84553 371 7 £15.99 $28 HB 978 1 84553 370 0 £65 $100
Description:
'The book creates a wonderful balance between the theory and the Irish English data. It is rich with illustrations of different features with examples from the author's own research and observations over the years, in particular her classroom experiences. This is an excellent book, well written in an engaging style. It will be attractive to the audience of people interested in the study of Irish English. It will also prove interesting and engaging to the general reader interested in Irish English or Hiberno-English.' Brian Nolan, Head of the Department of Informatics at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown in Dublin, Ireland
This book is a practical introduction to the English spoken in Ireland, its most characteristic features, and its historical development. As well as looking at the specific examples where substratum from the Irish Language can be observed, the book analyses other features unique to Irish English, from different perspectives (taking into account, for example, the pragmatic implications of certain syntactic structures in current spoken Irish English). It offers the reader a comprehensive coverage of the history and most salient features of this variety of English, while discussing key concepts such as bilingualism and language shift.
The material is presented in a simple and accessible manner. It encourages the reader to discuss and think critically about some of the topics and to use the last section of each chapter as a basis for further investigation. An Introduction to Irish English contains exercises and practical activities with each chapter, as well as suggestions for further reading. It deals with both real data and fictional representations of this variety and it includes excerpts from Literature, media and film scripts, as well as other contexts, including everyday conversation, newspapers, e-mail, blogs, etc.
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Extremadura in Spain. Her research interests are Irish English, stylistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics. She is the author of The use of Hiberno-English in Patrick MacGill’s Early Novels: Bilingualism and Language Shift from Irish to English in County Donegal. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006).
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Table of contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Some Key Notions
2. The History of the English Language in Ireland
3. The Grammar of Irish English
4. The Vocabulary of Irish English
5. The Sounds of Irish English
6. Fictional Representations of Irish English
7. Meaning What They Say: The Pragmatics of Irish English
8. Searching Corpora for Data
9. Implications for EFL Teachers and Learners
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