Dublin English : evolution and change

Author(s)

• Hickey, Raymond

Bibliographic Information

Dublin English : evolution and change

Raymond Hickey

（Varieties of English around the world, General series ; v. G35）

J. Benjamins, c2005

• : hb

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-260) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 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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Details

• NCID: BA7302237X
• ISBN:
  • 9027248958
• LCCN: 2005050258
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: x, 270 p.
• Size: 25 cm.
• Attached Material: 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
• Classification:
  • LCC : PE2476
  • DC22 : 427/.941835
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English language -- Ireland -- Dublin
  • LCSH : English language -- Dialects -- Ireland -- Dublin
  • LCSH : English language -- Variation -- Ireland -- Dublin
  • LCSH : Dublin (Ireland) -- Languages
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00292657