Bio Sketches

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contact details for contributors vii
4. Preface xi
5. Is Dublin English ‘Alive Alive Oh’? 1
6. Linguistic change in Galway City English 29
7. [ˈfɪlǝm] and [ˈfarǝm]? 47
8. The why of Belfast rises 67
9. Exploring grammatical differences between Irish and British English 85
10. From Ireland to Newfoundland 101
11. “A cannot get a loan for more than six years now” 131
12. Is it truly unique that Irish English clefts are? Quantifying the syntactic variation of it -clefts in Irish English and other post-colonial English varieties 153
13. The discourse marker LIKE in Irish English 179
14. “I’m fine girl, and how are you?” 203
15. “It’s lunacy now” 225
16. The responsive system of Irish English 247
17. A Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR) 265
18. The Irish in Argentina 289
19. Irish English and recent immigrants to Ireland 311
20. Discourse ‘like’ and social identity – a case study of Poles in Ireland 327
21. Bio Sketches 355
22. Index 359