Raymond Hickey, A Sound Atlas Irish English (2004)

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RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY MOUTON DE GRUYTER

Raymond Hickey

A Sound Atlas of Irish English

2004. x, 174 pages. Book and DVD. Cloth.

EUR 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 127.00

ISBN 3-11-018298-X

(Topics in English Linguistics 48)

http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-311018298X-1&l=E

A Sound Atlas of Irish English offers a unique and comprehensive audio
overview of the English language as spoken in present-day Ireland. In
all, there are over 1,500 recordings which were made between the mid
1990s and 2002. The recordings cover both genders and all ages (from 11
to over 80). Each county of the 32 in Ireland is represented and there
is a proper spread according to population. The capitals, Belfast and
Dublin, have large numbers of speakers, making the Sound Atlas
particularly suitable for sociolinguistic work within a variationist
framework. 

All the data can be accessed easily from the supplied DVD by means of a
Java application which allows the user to browse among the data by
county and to view and listen to lexical set realisations and free text.
The DVD contains much additional information about Irish English -
varieties, historical development, current distribution, etc. - as does
the accompanying book which offers many details concerning specific
features of forms of Irish English and information on the methodology
used for the sound atlas. 

A Sound Atlas of Irish English has a twofold purpose. It is on the one
hand a research tool for those scholars who are interested in Irish
English from an internal point of view, so to speak, and on the other
hand it is a source of reliable and up-to-date information on the kinds
of English spoken in Ireland and which can be used for comparative work,
e.g. when looking at the sources of features found in varieties around
the world, such as US English, Canadian, Australian/New Zealand English
and the like. The Sound Atlas can be used by academics and students
alike. With the Sound Atlas, students can gain a much clearer picture of
Irish English by listening to the sound files. 

The sound atlas is supplemented by A Survey of Irish English Usage which
consists of over 1,000 questionnaires from speakers with information on
the acceptance of grammatical features specific to Irish English. The
data of the survey, along with analytical software, is contained on the
DVD and discussed in the book. 

System requirements 

Windows PC: Pentium PC, Windows 2000/2003/XP, at least 128MB RAM,
DVD-ROM Drive, 16 Bit Soundcard, XVGA (1024 x 768 resolution). Apple
MAC: OS 9 or higher, 16 Bit Soundcard, at least 128MB RAM. 

Of interest to:

Students and Researchers working on Varieties of English, Dialectology,
Language Variation and Change; American and Canadian Scholars Looking at
the Roots of New World English; Teachers of Sociolinguistics looking at
the Methodology of Data Collection 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Raymond Hickey is Professor of English Linguistics at Essen University,
Germany. 

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