Socio-Pragmatic Variation in Ireland: Using Pragmatic Variation to Construct Social Identities

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2024

Socio-Pragmatic Variation in Ireland

Using Pragmatic Variation to Construct Social Identities

Edited by: Martin Schweinberger and Patricia Ronan

Volume 378 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791457

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Pragmatics represents the study of language use in socially grounded contexts and it is thus a central discipline in Linguistics. Due to its focus on language use, it has been referred to as a transdiscipline that interacts with a broad variety of disciplines that are concerned with social action and, as such, pragmatics overlaps with many other linguistic and non-linguistic disciplines.

Irish English is one of the earliest varieties of English to have attracted the interest of scholars working on pragmatic variation. From a sociolinguistic and a pragmatics perspective, it represents one of the best studied varieties of English and can thus be argued to offer important impulses to the study of variationist pragmatics in general. Ulster Scots, though in close contact with Irish English, has received less attention.

Given this important position of Irish English in pragmatics research and the paucity of such research on (Ulster) Scots, this volume explicitly focuses on socio-pragmatics and deals with the way speakers in and around Ireland use language in a way so that it assists them in the construction of their social identities or helps them navigate socio-cultural spaces.

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Martin Schweinberger, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Patricia Ronan, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
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1 An introduction to sociopragmatic variation Patricia Ronan and Martin Schweinberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Investigating sociolinguistic variables
2 The sociopragmatics of now in corpora of Irish English and Scottish English Brian Clancy and Elaine Vaughan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
3 Lookit – the story of a pragmatic marker in Irish English Raymond Hickey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
4 ‘Er, yeah, no, bummer’: An exploration of the ‘new’ discourse pragmatic marker Yeah, No in contemporary Irish English fiction Ana María Terrazas-Calero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
5 New speakers of Irish English: Pragmatic and sociophonetic perspectives Marion Schulte and Bettina Migge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
6 Pragmatic markers in Ulster Irish and Irish English Dónall Ó. Baoill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
7 Boring much? Semantic determinants of constructional attraction in Irish English Martin Schweinberger and Patricia Ronan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Part 2: Metapragmatic structures: Identities, styles, and media
8 ‘Oh wait and I tell you . . .’: Narratives, pragmatics, and style in ICE-Ireland Jeffrey L. Kallen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
9 Irish identities in a fictional TV series: Mediatised performance of Derry English in Derry Girls Stephen Lucek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
10 Salutation and leavetaking formulae in 18th-century varieties of English Christine Elsweiler and Patricia Ronan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
11 Automatically detecting directives with SPICE Ireland Gerold Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
12 Concluding remarks and future directions in studies on sociopragmatic variation Martin Schweinberger and Patricia Ronan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars and Researchers interested in Socio-Pragmatics, Dialectology Irish English and Sociolinguistics.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 242
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 12
- Coloured Illustrations: 9
- Tables: 42
Keywords: Dialectology; Sociolinguistics; Irish English; Ulster Scots

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Published: July 22, 2024
ISBN: 9783110791457

Hardcover

Published: July 22, 2024
ISBN: 9783110791204