none 10.1075/veaw.g44.02pet John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67856438 1421649 1421602 202507031802000014 10.1075 2025-07-03T16:01:04Z 2014-03-23T22:21:38Z 2 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 Arne Peters University of Potsdam https://ror.org/03bnmw459 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9537-1901 A study of phonological features in the district of Bóthar Mór This article presents a pilot study of linguistic change in progress in Irish English. It is based on a small corpus of interview data. Using a segmental phonological approach, the paper focuses on the phonological characteristics of English spoken in the Bóthar Mór district of Galway City in the west of Ireland. The data come from four female speakers who belong to different age groups. The analysis of prenasal /e/-raising and dental fricatives reveals patterns of variation that appear to be due to intergenerationally-based change in progress. Other patterns of variation are instances of stable variation. Keywords: Southern Irish English; Galway English; Bóthar Mór/Bohermore; phonological change; apparent-time study; linguistic change 11 15 2012 10 22 2012 29 46 10.1075/veaw.g44.02pet https://benjamins.com/catalog/veaw.g44.02pet https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/veaw.g44.02pet/html