Speech-unit final like in Irish English
Martin Schweinberger | The University of Queensland
This paper investigates the use of speech-unit final like (SUF like) in standard
Irish English (IrE) and takes a variationist approach based on the Irish component of the International Corpus of
English (ICE-IRL). The analysis includes both sociolinguistic factors (age, gender, occupation type, religious
affiliation, conversation type, audience size, type and zone of residence) and a psycholinguistic factor (priming). The
statistical analysis extends previous research on SUF like in that it applies the principle of accountability and
shows that priming significantly facilitates SUF like use, that SUF like has increased between
an earlier (1990–1994) and a later phase (2002–2005) of data collection and that, between 2002 and 2005, SUF like
use correlates negatively with audience size but not so in data collected between 1990 and 1994. The relative absence of
significant social stratification of SUF like use suggests that SUF like continues to be a
frequent feature of standard IrE and substantiates that it is a linguistic marker of Irish identity.
Keywords: Irish English, discourse like
, discourse markers, variationist, sociolinguistics, quantitative analysis
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Data and methodology
- 2.1Classification and coding of variables
- 2.1.1SUF like (dependent variable)
- 2.1.2Priming
- 2.1.3Age
- 2.1.4Gender
- 2.1.5Religious affiliation
- 2.1.6Occupation type
- 2.1.7Conversation type
- 2.1.8Residence type
- 2.1.9State
- 2.1.10Audience size
- 2.2SUF discourse-pragmatic elements
- 2.3The final data set
- 2.4Regression modeling
- 2.1Classification and coding of variables
- 3.Visualization of the data
- 4.Results of the mixed-effects binomial logistic regression models
- 5.Discussion
- 6.Conclusion
- Notes
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Published online: 24 February 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00041.sch
https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00041.sch
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