Irish English. Special issue of World Englishes 36.2
Raymond Hickey and Elaine Vaughan
Malden, MA: Wiley.
The English language in Ireland can look back on a history of several centuries during which it developed various forms, from urban varieties, especially in Dublin, to rural varieties which arose during the language shift from Irish to English, above all in the nineteenth century. In addition, divergent forms of English arose in the North of Ireland, chiefly as a result of significant immigration from Scotland and the North of England during the seventeenth century. Contemporary English in Ireland evinces a wide range of varieties determined by a number of factors. On the one hand there are strongly localised forms of English, in both urban and rural settings, which are associated with local identities and attitudes. On the other hand there are more supraregional varieties which, while maintaining a distinctly Irish profile, are more closely allied to supranational varieties of English. It is the latter set of varieties which show the greatest degree and rate of change given the sensitivity of their speakers to both developments of English outside of Ireland and given their reactions to local forms of English in their surroundings. The current volume consists of nine specially commissioned chapters which concern themselves with these topic issues in the field of Irish English studies.
Preface (Hickey + Vaughan)
1) Irish English in the anglophone world
(Raymond Hickey)
2) Leaving Ireland: Irish English and emigration
(Kevin McCafferty)
3) Language ideologies, migrants and Irish English
(Chloé Diskin, Vera Regan)
4) How Irish English is used: pragmatics I
(Elaine Vaughan, Brian Clancy)
5) How Irish English is used: pragmatics II
(Anne Barron)
6) Irish English and corpora
(John Kirk)
7) Encapsulating Irish English in literature
(Carolina Amador-Moreno, Ana Maria Terrazas)
8) Vernacularization and authenticity in radio advertising
(Joan O'Sullivan, Helen Kelly-Holmes)
9) The language of Irish films (Shane Walshe)
