none 10.1075/veaw.g44.01cor John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67856437 1421649 1421602 202507031802000014 10.1075 2025-07-03T12:01:04Z 2014-03-23T18:21:38Z 4 0172-7362 10.1075/veaw https://benjamins.com/ catalog/veaw Bettina Migge University College Dublin https://ror.org/05m7pjf47 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3305-7113 Máire Ní Chiosáin University College Dublin https://ror.org/05m7pjf47 This volume brings together current research by international scholars on the varieties of English spoken in Ireland. The papers apply contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches and frameworks to a range of topics. A number of papers explore the distribution of linguistic features in Irish English, including the evolution of linguistic structures in Irish English and linguistic change in progress, employing broadly quantitative sociolinguistic approaches. Pragmatic features of Irish English are explored through corpus linguistics-based analysis. The construction of linguistic corpora using written and recorded material form the focus of other papers, extending and analyzing the growing range of corpus material available to researchers of varieties of English, including diaspora varieties. Issues of language and identity in contemporary Ireland are explored in several contributions using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The volume will be of interest to linguists generally, and to scholars with an interest in varieties of English. G44 11 15 2012 10 22 2012 9789027249043 9789027273178 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/veaw.g44 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027273178 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/veaw.g44/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027273178.pdf Karen P. Corrigan Newcastle University Richard Edge Newcastle University John Lonergan University College Dublin https://ror.org/05m7pjf47 Hickey (2005) has argued that there are three social varieties of Dublin English (‘Local’, ‘Mainstream’ and ‘New Dublin’) and that younger females are key players in the shift towards the ‘New Dublin’ type. With a view to further investigating some aspects of Hickey’s proposals, this article reports on a pilot project that focused on native Dubliners whose working class origins would place them at the ‘Local’ end of Hickey’s continuum. It investigated responses to perception and production tests on morphosyntactic and phonological variables amongst two generations of males and females. Interestingly, speaker judgments on stereotypical southern Irish-English features, in particular, did not uncover the significant gender and generational differences which Hickey (2005) finds evidence for amongst his young female subjects. Keywords: Dublin English; pronominalisation; agreement; complementation; rhoticity; dentality; acceptability judgement 11 15 2012 10 22 2012 1 28 10.1075/veaw.g44.01cor https://benjamins.com/catalog/veaw.g44.01cor https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/veaw.g44.01cor/html