Fwd: New Book from John Benjamins on Irish English

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

>From: Paul Peranteau <paul at benjamins.com>
>Subject:      New Book from John Benjamins: Hickey
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>John Benjamins Publishing announces a new book of interest to historical
>linguists:
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>Title: A Source Book for Irish English
>Series Title: Library and Information Sources in Linguistics 27
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>Publication Year: 2002
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>Publisher: John Benjamins
>            http://www.benjamins.com/
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>Author: Raymond  Hickey
>Pages: xii, 541 pp, includes CD-ROM
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>Hardback: ISBN: 1588112098  Price: USD 136.00 (US & Canada)
>Hardback: ISBN: 90 272 3753 0  Price: EUR 150.00 (Everywhere Else)
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>Abstract:
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>The intention of the current book is to provide a flexible and
>comprehensive bibliographical tool to those scholars working or
>interested in Irish English. A whole range of references
>(approx. 2,500) relating to Irish English in all its aspects are
>gathered together here and in the majority of cases annotations are
>supplied. The book has a detailed introduction dealing the history of
>Irish English, the documentation available and contains an overview of
>the themes in Irish English which have occupied linguists working in
>the field. Various appendixes offer information on the history of
>Irish English studies and biographical notes on scholars from this
>area. All the bibliographical material is contained on the
>accompanying CD-ROM along with appropriate software (Windows, PC) for
>processing the databases and texts. The databases are fully
>searchable, information can be exported at will and customised
>extracts can be created by users from within an intuitive software
>interface.
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>Lingfield(s): Sociolinguistics
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>Subject Language(s): English (Language Code: Eng)
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>Written In: English (Language Code: Eng)
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