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Dublin English : evolution and change /

"The present book describes the English language in all its facets as spoken in present-day Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. It covers the entire range of its history since the first arrival of English there several hundred years ago. Apart from the evolution of English in the ca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hickey, Raymond, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2005.
Colección:Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 35.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Investigating Dublin English
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. Collecting data
  • II. English in present-day Dublin
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Recent changes in Dublin English
  • 3. Attitudes to Dublin English
  • 4. The wider context
  • 5. The grammar of Dublin English
  • 6. The vocabulary of Dublin English
  • 7. Placenames in Dublin
  • III. Reaching back in time
  • 1. The history of English in Ireland
  • 2. Letters as linguistic evidence
  • 3. Literary texts as linguistic evidence
  • 4. Prescriptive comments by Dublin authors
  • 5. Early modern Dublin English
  • 6. Medieval Irish English
  • 7. Supraregionalisation.