Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. 1 An introduction to sociopragmatic variation 1
4. Part 1: Investigating sociolinguistic variables
5. 2 The sociopragmatics of now in corpora of Irish English and Scottish English 11
6. 3 Lookit – the story of a pragmatic marker in Irish English 31
7. 4 ‘Er, yeah, no, bummer’: An exploration of the ‘new’ discourse pragmatic marker Yeah, No in contemporary Irish English fiction 45
8. 5 New speakers of Irish English: Pragmatic and sociophonetic perspectives 69
9. 6 Pragmatic markers in Ulster Irish and Irish English 87
10. 7 Boring much? Semantic determinants of constructional attraction in Irish English 107
11. Part 2: Metapragmatic structures: Identities, styles, and media
12. 8 ‘Oh wait and I tell you . . .’: Narratives, pragmatics, and style in ICE-Ireland 133
13. 9 Irish identities in a fictional TV series: Mediatised performance of Derry English in Derry Girls 155
14. 10 Salutation and leavetaking formulae in 18th-century varieties of English 173
15. 11 Automatically detecting directives with SPICE Ireland 205
16. 12 Concluding remarks and future directions in studies on sociopragmatic variation 235
17. Index 241