Sociolinguistics in Ireland

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Table of Contents

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Preface and Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

The International Phonetic Alphabet

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Part I Language and Society in Contemporary Ireland

1 English in Ireland: Development and Varieties

2 The Irish Language in Present-day Ireland

3 The Irish Language and the Media

4 Irish-English Code-switching: a Sociolinguistic Perspective

5 The Sociolinguistics of Language Use in Ireland

Part II Language and Society in Irish History

6 Language Relations in Early Ireland

7 From Early Modern Ireland to the Great Famine

8 Language Shift and Language Revival in Ireland

9 Language, Politics and Identity in Ireland: a Historical Overview

10 Emigrant Letters: Exploring the ‘Grammar of the Conquered’

11 Society, Language and Irish Emigration

Part III Sociolinguistic Interfaces

12 Second-language Acquisition of Irish and the Role of Reading

13 The Language of Irish Writing in English

14 Irish Society as Portrayed in Irish Films

15 Translation and Society in Ireland, 1900–Present

16 Sociolinguistic Information and Irish English Corpora

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General Bibliography

Index