none 10.1075/ahs.4.09ama John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 73498469 1635760 1418872 202507021652000029 10.1075 2025-07-02T10:52:32Z 2015-01-26T09:00:52Z 5 2214-1057 10.1075/ahs https://benjamins.com/ catalog/ahs Marina Dossena Università degli Studi di Bergamo https://ror.org/02mbd5571 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8025-6086 The volume presents an innovative approach to studies in Late Modern English by giving attention to variation and change in varieties of English on both sides of the Atlantic. As new corpora become available, scholarly interests broaden their horizons to encompass varieties, the history of which has only just begun to be investigated, and which are likely to yield significant findings. The contributors, whose long experience in the field of English historical linguistics ensures in-depth investigations, employ state-of-the-art tools for the analysis of specific phenomena and to set these in the light of a more encompassing framework concerning different text types and sociolinguistic considerations. While usage guides and dictionaries prove remarkable in their contribution to the definition of what is (not) acceptable in specific social circles, the language of ordinary users also takes centre stage in studies of correspondence, journals and travelogues. The volume is expected to appeal to scholars and students interested in the linguistic history of English as seen in contexts on which – until now – relatively little light has been shed. 4 2 12 2015 1 26 2015 9789027200839 9789027268877 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/ahs.4 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027268877 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/ahs.4/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027268877.pdf Carolina P. Amador-Moreno University of Extremadura, Spain https://ror.org/0174shg90 Kevin McCafferty University of Bergen, Norway https://ror.org/03zga2b32 Irish English discourse marker sure Sure as a discourse marker is salient in Irish English, and it has been traditionally associated with the Irish since the seventeenth century. Its frequency in textual representations of Irish English seems to suggest that it was enregistered to audiences in historical contexts, and its occurrence in emigrant letters provides evidence of its use by letter-writers from different social and educational backgrounds since at least the 1760s. This study compares data from the Corpus of Irish English, which consists of literary texts, and the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence, which contains Irish emigrant letters. The comparison of historical corpora allows us to observe the structural positions in which DM sure is found from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and to examine the different pragmatic functions that it seems to fulfil. We suggest that its survival up to the present may have been due to sociolinguistic reasons: it was a useful feature for signalling identity and intimacy, and a pragmatic feature that enables IrE speakers to look for consensus, mitigate opinions, etc. 2 12 2015 1 26 2015 179 197 10.1075/ahs.4.09ama https://benjamins.com/catalog/ahs.4.09ama https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/ahs.4.09ama/html 10.1353/lan.2006.0140 10.1075/veaw.g44.13mcc 10.1016/S0271-5309(03)00012-0 A companion to linguistic anthropology Agha 23 2004 Registers of language 10.1017/CBO9780511551970.018 10.1515/9783110898934.73 An analysis of Hiberno-English in the early novels of Patrick MacGill. 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