CiNii Books - Dublin English : evolution and change

The 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 a vis more standard forms of English.

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1. Preface
2. I. Investigating Dublin English
3. Introduction
4. Collecting data
5. II. English in present-day Dublin
6. Introduction
7. Recent changes in Dublin English
8. Attitudes to Dublin English
9. The wider context
10. The grammar of Dublin English
11. The vocabulary of Dublin English
12. Placenames in Dublin
13. III. Reaching back in time
14. The history of Englsih in Ireland
15. Letters as linguistic evidence
16. Literary texts as linguistic evidence
17. Prescriptive comments by Dublin authors
18. Early modern Dublin English
19. Medieval Irish English
20. Supraregionalisation
21. IV. Guide to the CD-ROM
22. V. Lexical sets for Dublin English
23. VI. Glossary
24. Maps
25. References
26. Index
27. Sound files referred to in book

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