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Date: 05-Aug-2005
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Dublin English: Hickey 

	
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Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:31:39
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Dublin English: Hickey 
 



Title: Dublin English 
Subtitle: Evolution and change 
Series Title: Varieties of English Around the World G35  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=VEAW%20G35 


Author: Raymond Hickey, University of Duisburg-Essen

Hardback: ISBN: 9027248958 Pages: x,270 Price: U.S. $ 144.00 Comment: Includes CD-Rom
Hardback: ISBN: 9027248958 Pages: x,270 Price: Europe EURO 120.00 Comment: Includes CD-Rom


Abstract:

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 à vis more standard forms of English. 

Table of contents

Preface  ix  
I. Investigating Dublin English  1  
Introduction  1  
Collecting data  8  

II. English in present-day Dublin   
Introduction  27  
Recent changes in Dublin English  45  
Attitudes to Dublin English  92  
The wider context  107  
The grammar of Dublin English  115  
The vocabulary of Dublin English  133  
Placenames in Dublin  146  

III. Reaching back in time   
The history of English in Ireland  150  
Letters as linguistic evidence  158  
Literary texts as linguistic evidence  166  
Prescriptive comments by Dublin authors  178  
Early modern Dublin English  189  
Medieval Irish English  194  
Supraregionalisation  202  

IV. Guide to the CD-ROM  211  

V. Lexical sets for Dublin English  225  

VI. Glossary  233  

Maps  239  
References  243  
Index  261  
Sound files referred to in book  269  

"Dublin English: Evolution and Change is a unique study of a significant
urban variety of English which is undergoing major change. It offers a
compelling and persuasive analysis - backed up by a few hundred speaker
recordings - which will be of special interest to sociolinguists world-wide." 
J.K. Chambers 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Description
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (ENG)


Written In: English  (ENG)
	
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