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This collection features different perspectives on how digital tools are changing our understanding of language varieties, language contact, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and dialectology through the lens of different historical contexts.

Orality in Written Texts provides a methodologically and theoretically innovative study of change in Irish English in the period 1700-1900. This book is key reading for advanced students and researchers of corpus linguistics, varieties of English, language change and historical linguistics.

This volume examines in-depth the many facets of language and identity in the complex linguistic landscape of Ireland. The role of the heritage language Irish is scrutinized as are the manifold varieties of English spoken in regions of the island determined by both geography and social contexts. Language as a vehicle of national and cultural identity is center-stage as is the representation of identity in various media types and text genres. I...

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This book is a general introduction to the English spoken in Ireland, its most characteristic features, and its historical development. It provides a practical introduction to the topic of Irish English (also known as Hiberno-English), the variety of English that arose in Ireland as a consequence of contact between the Irish and the English languages. As well as looking at the specific examples where substratum from Irish can be observed, the ...

An introduction to English spoken in Ireland, its most characteristic features, and its historical development. It analyzes features of Irish English (also known as Hiberno-English), from different perspectives taking into account, for example, the pragmatic implications of certain syntactic structures in current spoken Irish English.