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Author:   Raymond Hickey
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
ISBN:  

9781349686971

ISBN 10:   1349686972
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   17 February 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PART I: LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND 1. English in Ireland: Development and Varieties; Raymond Hickey 2. The Irish Language in Present-day Ireland ; Brian O Cathain 3. The Irish Language and the Media; Iarfhlaith Watson 4. Irish-English Code-switching: a Sociolinguistic Perspective; Siobhan Ni Laoire 5. The Sociolinguistics of Language Use in Ireland; Anne Barron and Irina Pandarova PART II: LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY IN IRISH HISTORY 6. Language Relations in Early Ireland; Patricia Ronan 7. From Early Modern Ireland to the Great Famine; Liam Mac Mathuna 8. Language Shift and Language Revival in Ireland; Regina Ui Chollatain 9. Language, Politics and Identity in Ireland: A historical Overview; Tony Crowley 10. Emigrant Letters: Exploring the 'Grammar of the Conquered'; Kevin McCafferty 11. Society, Language and Irish Emigration; Raymond Hickey PART III: SOCIOLINGUISTIC INTERFACES 12. Second Language Acquisition of Irish and the Role of Reading; Tina Hickey and Nancy Stenson 13. The Language of Irish Writing in English; Carolina Amador-Moreno 14. Irish Society as Portrayed in Irish Films; Shane Walshe 15. Translation and Society in Ireland 1900-present; Kathleen Shields 16. Sociolinguistic Information and Irish English Corpora; Elaine Vaughan and Brian Clancy

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The book may be useful for undergraduate classes focused on sociolinguistics more generally, but is certainly of high value to more advanced scholarship on the specific matter of the study of languages in Ireland. ... This volume presents a wide variety of methods and theoretical perspectives and ranges in scale from a close scrutiny of phonetic changes to broad historical trends ... . This diversity of approaches introduces both breadth and depth to its intended topic with great efficacy. (Josh Cannon, Language in Society, Vol. 47 (4), June, 2018)

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Raymond Hickey studied at Trinity College, Dublin and in Kiel, Germany. He has held professorial appointments at four German universities. His main research interests are sociolinguistics, varieties of English, eighteenth century English, the Irish language alongside general questions of language contact and change on which he has published widely.

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