Sociolinguistics in Ireland

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
English in Ireland: Development and Varieties....Pages 3-40
The Irish Language in Present-day Ireland....Pages 41-59
The Irish Language and the Media....Pages 60-80
Irish-English Code-switching: a Sociolinguistic Perspective....Pages 81-106
The Sociolinguistics of Language Use in Ireland....Pages 107-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Language Relations in Early Ireland....Pages 133-153
From Early Modern Ireland to the Great Famine....Pages 154-175
Language Shift and Language Revival in Ireland....Pages 176-197
Language, Politics and Identity in Ireland: a Historical Overview....Pages 198-217
Emigrant Letters: Exploring the ‘Grammar of the Conquered’....Pages 218-243
Society, Language and Irish Emigration....Pages 244-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Second-language Acquisition of Irish and the Role of Reading....Pages 269-298
The Language of Irish Writing in English....Pages 299-319
Irish Society as Portrayed in Irish Films....Pages 320-343
Translation and Society in Ireland, 1900-Present....Pages 344-364
Sociolinguistic Information and Irish English Corpora....Pages 365-388
Back Matter....Pages 389-424