none 10.1075/veaw.g44.15mig John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67856451 1421649 1421602 202507031802000014 10.1075 2025-07-03T12:01:07Z 2014-03-23T18:21:38Z 11 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 Bettina Migge University College Dublin https://ror.org/05m7pjf47 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3305-7113 When Ireland became a country of net immigration in the 1990s, the varieties of English spoken on the island came to function as targets of language learning and were subjected to critical evaluation by people from a wide range of backgrounds. This paper explores newcomers’ views on and attitudes towards Irish English based on interviews with 73 immigrants from a variety of national and social backgrounds. The analysis suggests that there is broad agreement about the nature of Irish English, but attitudes towards it and desire to identify with it are heterogeneous being influenced by a range of factors including people’s alignment with Ireland, their views about variation and Irish reactions to its use. Keywords: Irish English; language attitudes; language ideologies; migration 11 15 2012 10 22 2012 311 326 10.1075/veaw.g44.15mig https://benjamins.com/catalog/veaw.g44.15mig https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/veaw.g44.15mig/html