Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and
Linguistics Orality in Written Texts provides a methodologically
and theoretically innovative study of change in Irish English in
the period 1700-1900. Focusing in on a time during which Ireland
became overwhelmingly English-speaking, the book traces the use of
various linguistic features of Irish English in different
historical contexts and over time. This book: draws on data from
the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR), which is
composed of personal letters to and from Irish emigrants from the
start of the eighteenth century up until the end of the twentieth
century; analyses linguistic features that have hitherto remained
neglected in the literature on Irish English, including
discourse-pragmatic markers, and deictic and pronominal forms;
discusses how the survival of the pragmatic mode has resulted in
the preservation of certain facets of the Irish English variety as
known today; explores sociolinguistic issues from a historical
perspective. With direct relevance to corpus-based literary studies
as well as the exploration of hybrid, modern-day text forms,
Orality in Written Texts is key reading for advanced students and
researchers of corpus linguistics, varieties of English, language
change and historical linguistics, as well as anyone interested in
learning more about Irish history and migration.
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