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22.1 Introduction 22.1 Introduction
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22.1.1 Enter a stereotype: the stage Irishman 22.1.1 Enter a stereotype: the stage Irishman
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22.1.2 Reconstruction via satire 22.1.2 Reconstruction via satire
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22.2 The sixteenth century 22.2 The sixteenth century
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22.3 The seventeenth century 22.3 The seventeenth century
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22.4 The eighteenth century 22.4 The eighteenth century
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22.4.1 Labelling Irish English: the ‘brogue’ 22.4.1 Labelling Irish English: the ‘brogue’
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22.4.2 Summary of features up to 1800 22.4.2 Summary of features up to 1800
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22.5 The nineteenth century 22.5 The nineteenth century
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22.5.1 The grammar of literary texts 22.5.1 The grammar of literary texts
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22.5.2 Kiltartanese 22.5.2 Kiltartanese
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22.6 The twentieth century 22.6 The twentieth century
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22.7 Conclusion 22.7 Conclusion
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References References
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22 The Language of Irish Literature in English
Get accessRaymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick and former Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research centres around varieties of English, especially Irish English, eighteenth-century English, and issues of standardization of English, language contact, and areal linguistics, as well as sociolinguistic variation and change. Among his recent book publications are Listening to the Past: Audio Records of Accents of English (Cambridge University Press, 2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (Cambridge University Press, 2017), English in the German-Speaking World (Cambridge University Press, 2020), English in Multilingual South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Handbook of Language Contact (Wiley, 2020), and Sounds of English World-Wide (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023). He is also general editor of the New Cambridge History of the English Language.
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Published:18 December 2023
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Abstract
Works containing dialect can be examined in an attempt to reconstruct vernacular features for different regions at various times, while bearing in mind questions concerning the reliability of written representations (rendering these explicit helps to prepare the ground for later linguistic analysis). In Irish English literary texts a range of phonological and morphosyntactic traits are in evidence, including lexical and discourse-pragmatic features, especially in literature from the nineteenth century. Enregistered features of Irish English are apparent in literary texts, and serve to express a specifically Irish identity. Data is provided by corpora of literary works, and enable a data-driven, sociolinguistically aware analysis of the language of Irish literature. The issue of translation of Irish and English texts (in both directions) to gain insights into the specific nature of Irish English as a literary medium is also considered.
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