Socio-Pragmatic Variation in Ireland
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Edited by:
Martin Schweinberger
About this book
Pragmatics represents the study of language use in socially grounded contexts and it is thus a central discipline in Linguistics. Due to its focus on language use, it has been referred to as a transdiscipline that interacts with a broad variety of disciplines that are concerned with social action and, as such, pragmatics overlaps with many other linguistic and non-linguistic disciplines.
Irish English is one of the earliest varieties of English to have attracted the interest of scholars working on pragmatic variation. From a sociolinguistic and a pragmatics perspective, it represents one of the best studied varieties of English and can thus be argued to offer important impulses to the study of variationist pragmatics in general. Ulster Scots, though in close contact with Irish English, has received less attention.
Given this important position of Irish English in pragmatics research and the paucity of such research on (Ulster) Scots, this volume explicitly focuses on socio-pragmatics and deals with the way speakers in and around Ireland use language in a way so that it assists them in the construction of their social identities or helps them navigate socio-cultural spaces.
Author / Editor information
Martin Schweinberger, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Patricia Ronan, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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1 An introduction to sociopragmatic variation
1 - Part 1: Investigating sociolinguistic variables
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2 The sociopragmatics of now in corpora of Irish English and Scottish English
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3 Lookit – the story of a pragmatic marker in Irish English
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4 ‘Er, yeah, no, bummer’: An exploration of the ‘new’ discourse pragmatic marker Yeah, No in contemporary Irish English fiction
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5 New speakers of Irish English: Pragmatic and sociophonetic perspectives
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6 Pragmatic markers in Ulster Irish and Irish English
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7 Boring much? Semantic determinants of constructional attraction in Irish English
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8 ‘Oh wait and I tell you . . .’: Narratives, pragmatics, and style in ICE-Ireland
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9 Irish identities in a fictional TV series: Mediatised performance of Derry English in Derry Girls
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10 Salutation and leavetaking formulae in 18th-century varieties of English
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11 Automatically detecting directives with SPICE Ireland
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12 Concluding remarks and future directions in studies on sociopragmatic variation
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Index
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