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An Introduction to Irish English
Carolina P. Amador- Moreno
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Description for An Introduction to Irish English
Hardback. An introduction to the English spoken in Ireland, its most characteristic features, and its historical development. It looks at the specific examples where substratum from Irish can be observed, and analyses other features unique to Irish English, from different perspectives. It contains exercises and practical activities with each chapter. Series: Equinox Textbooks & Surveys in Linguistics. Num Pages: 192 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; CF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 264 x 188 x 17. Weight in Grams: 556.
This book is a general introduction to the English spoken in Ireland, its most characteristic features, and its historical development. It provides a practical introduction to the topic of Irish English (also known as Hiberno-English), the variety of English that arose in Ireland as a consequence of contact between the Irish and the English languages. As well as looking at the specific examples where substratum from Irish can be observed, the book analyses other features unique to Irish English, from different perspectives (taking into account, for example, the pragmatic implications of certain syntactic structures in current spoken Irish English). It ... Read more
This book is a general introduction to the English spoken in Ireland, its most characteristic features, and its historical development. It provides a practical introduction to the topic of Irish English (also known as Hiberno-English), the variety of English that arose in Ireland as a consequence of contact between the Irish and the English languages. As well as looking at the specific examples where substratum from Irish can be observed, the book analyses other features unique to Irish English, from different perspectives (taking into account, for example, the pragmatic implications of certain syntactic structures in current spoken Irish English). It ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Equinox Textbooks & Surveys in Linguistics
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845533700
SKU
V9781845533700
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99-12
About Carolina P. Amador- Moreno
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Extremadura in Spain. Her research interests are Irish English, stylistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics. She is the author of The use of Hiberno-English in Patrick MacGill's Early Novels: Bilingualism and Language Shift from Irish to English in County Donegal. ... Read more
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