Hickey Sociolinguistics in Ireland

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-45347-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

Sociolinguistics in Ireland takes a fresh look at the interface of language and society in present-day Ireland. In a series of specially commissioned chapters it examines the relationship of the Irish and English languages and traces their dynamic development both in history and at present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hickey, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Half-Title;2
3;Title;4
4;Copyright;5
5;Table of Contents;6
6;List of Figures;8
7;List of Tables;9
8;Preface and Acknowledgements;11
9;Notes on the Contributors;13
10;The International Phonetic Alphabet;18
11;Maps;19
12;Part I Language and Society in Contemporary Ireland;24
12.1;1 English in Ireland: Development and Varieties;25
12.2;2 The Irish Language in Present-day Ireland;63
12.3;3 The Irish Language and the Media;82
12.4;4 Irish-English Code-switching: a Sociolinguistic Perspective;103
12.5;5 The Sociolinguistics of Language Use in Ireland;129
13;Part II Language and Society in Irish History;153
13.1;6 Language Relations in Early Ireland;154
13.2;7 From Early Modern Ireland to the Great Famine;175
13.3;8 Language Shift and Language Revival in Ireland;197
13.4;9 Language, Politics and Identity in Ireland: a Historical Overview;219
13.5;10 Emigrant Letters: Exploring the ‘Grammar of the Conquered’;239
13.6;11 Society, Language and Irish Emigration;265
14;Part III Sociolinguistic Interfaces;287
14.1;12 Second-language Acquisition of Irish and the Role of Reading;288
14.2;13 The Language of Irish Writing in English;318
14.3;14 Irish Society as Portrayed in Irish Films;339
14.4;15 Translation and Society in Ireland, 1900–Present;363
14.5;16 Sociolinguistic Information and Irish English Corpora;384
15;Timelines;408
16;Glossary;414
17;General Bibliography;435
18;Index;440