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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

Stephen Lucek, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, John Kirk

Part I – Irish English: Structures and Cross-Varietal Perspectives

1. Conservative and innovator?: J.M. Synge and the Irish English Be after V-ing construction

Kevin McCafferty

2. "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. Corrigan

3. The variable fortunes of the Were-subjunctive in varieties of English

Markku Filppula

4. I Had the Dinner Eaten, But She Has a Tooth Gone: Causer and experiencer HAVE constructions in Traditional IrE

Gili Diamant

Part II – Irish English: Discourse and Pragmatics

5. "Bloody Hell, I'm Grand": Adjectives in spoken Irish and British English

Anne O'Keefe & Geraldine Mark

6. "Sorry Miss, I completely forgot about it": Apologies and vocatives in Ireland and England

Anne Barron

7. Absolutely fantastic and really, really good: Language Variation and Change in Irish English

Martin Schweinberger

8. Exploiting pragmatic markers in radio advertising in Ireland

Joan O'Sullivan

9. Sociopragmatic perspectives on Irish English discourse-pragmatic markers: An analysis of But in Dublin English

Marion Schulte

10. Confrontational humour in a Dublin sports club: Flouting the conversational maxims of indirectness

Fergus O'Dwyer

Part III – Irish English: Symbols, Landscapes and Perceptions

11. Perceptual dialectology between varieties of Irish English: The Relationship between linguistic and political boundaries on the island of Ireland

Vicky Garnett & Stephen Lucek

12. Brexit, borders and belonging in Northern Ireland: Exploring the linguistic landscape of the political border in Ireland

Deirdre Dunlevy

13. Indexing Irishness in linguistic landscaping: A touristic perception of the use of Irish language and Irish-style fonts

Patricia Ronan

14. Heritage, identity and language use in public spaces Ireland

Raymond Hickey

15. Irish English and World Englishes

John Kirk