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Irish English and Recent Immigrants to Ireland
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Date Issued
2012-11
Date Available
2014-10-08T08:43:37Z
Abstract
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.
Sponsorship
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
University College Dublin
Type of Material
Book Chapter
Publisher
John Benjamins
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
Part of
Migge, B. & Nà Chiosáin, M. (eds.). New Perspectives on Irish English (Series: Varieties of English Around the World)
ISBN
9789027249043
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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