Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research

Stephen Lucek is Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway.

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• Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesIntroductionStephen Lucek, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, John KirkPart I – Irish English: Structures and Cross-Varietal Perspectives1. Conservative and innovator?: J.M. Synge and the Irish English Be after V-ing constructionKevin McCafferty2. "You are some foreigner – you are not even from this country": Comparative Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Diasporas in an Irish ContextCarolina P. Amador-Moreno, Nancy E. Ávila-Ledesma & Karen P. Corrigan3. The variable fortunes of the Were-subjunctive in varieties of EnglishMarkku Filppula4. I Had the Dinner Eaten, But She Has a Tooth Gone: Causer and experiencer HAVE constructions in Traditional IrEGili DiamantPart II – Irish English: Discourse and Pragmatics5. "Bloody Hell, I'm Grand": Adjectives in spoken Irish and British EnglishAnne O'Keefe & Geraldine Mark6. "Sorry Miss, I completely forgot about it": Apologies and vocatives in Ireland and England Anne Barron7. Absolutely fantastic and really, really good: Language Variation and Change in Irish EnglishMartin Schweinberger8. Exploiting pragmatic markers in radio advertising in Ireland Joan O'Sullivan9. Sociopragmatic perspectives on Irish English discourse-pragmatic markers: An analysis of But in Dublin EnglishMarion Schulte10. Confrontational humour in a Dublin sports club: Flouting the conversational maxims of indirectnessFergus O'DwyerPart III – Irish English: Symbols, Landscapes and Perceptions11. Perceptual dialectology between varieties of Irish English: The Relationship between linguistic and political boundaries on the island of IrelandVicky Garnett & Stephen Lucek12. Brexit, borders and belonging in Northern Ireland: Exploring the linguistic landscape of the political border in IrelandDeirdre Dunlevy13. Indexing Irishness in linguistic landscaping: A touristic perception of the use of Irish language and Irish-style fontsPatricia Ronan14. Heritage, identity and language use in public spaces IrelandRaymond Hickey15. Irish English and World EnglishesJohn Kirk