Raymond Hickey

List of John Benjamins publications for which Raymond Hickey plays a role.

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Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Researching Northern English

Edited by Raymond Hickey

[Varieties of English Around the World, G55] 2015. x, 483 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Writing and literacy

Dublin English: Evolution and change

Raymond Hickey

[Varieties of English Around the World, G35] 2005. x, 270 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Electronic/Multimedia Products

A Source Book for Irish English

Raymond Hickey

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 27] 2002. xii, 541 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Subjects Bibliographies in linguistics | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

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The English adjective sure functions in Irish English as a pragmatic marker in sentence-initial or clause-initial position (occasionally in tag questions) expressing intersubjectivity in discourse. This essentially has the effect of affirming shared knowledge among speakers and offering reassurance… read more | Chapter
Hickey, Raymond. 2020. The interplay of internal and external factors in varieties of English. Late Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), pp. 43–64
The validity of a division of factors for language change into internal and external forms the focus of the present study. A distinction is made between speaker-internal and speaker-external on the one hand and community-internal and community-external on the other. A central concern is whether… read more | Chapter
A large section of the early settler population in Australia came from Ireland and many of these individuals wrote back home reporting on conditions in the colony and/or advising relatives and friends on emigration. This private correspondence shows a large number features known from present-day… read more | Chapter
The examination of emigrant letters shows that a judicious exploitation of this material can yield a variety of insights regarding the linguistic structure of varieties at the time of letter writing, despite a number of caveats which must be borne in mind. The diagnostic value of vernacular… read more | Chapter
Over the past two centuries, the use of the adjective grand underwent a specific semantic expansion in Irish English. Apart from the meaning of ‘displaying grandeur’, the adjective came to mean ‘fine’, ‘alright’ and ‘in good form’, both as an expression of the speaker’s situation and as a reference… read more | Article
Hickey, Raymond. 2015. The Pragmatics of Irish English and Irish. Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan (eds.), pp. 17–36
The Irish and English languages are spoken by groups of people who belong to the same cultural environment, i.e. both are Irish in the overall cultural sense. This study investigates whether the pragmatics of the Irish language and of Irish English are identical and, if not, to what extent they are… read more | Article
Hickey, Raymond. 2015. The North of England and Northern English. Researching Northern English, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 1–24
Since at least the early Middle English period the conception of the North of England as a region, which is culturally and linguistically separate from the South of the country, has been widespread (Beal 1993: 125–129). Nonetheless, there is no simple consensus about the extent of the North of… read more | Article
Hickey, Raymond. 2014. Vowels before /r/ in the history of English. Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English, Pfenninger, Simone E., Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier (eds.), pp. 95–110
In the past few centuries vowels before historic /r/ have gone through many changes in different varieties of English, including non-rhotic forms which lost syllable-final /r/ in the eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries. These changes can be grouped into two major types. The first is… read more | Article
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A number of dramatic texts are scrutinised here for the linguistic analysis of Irish English in the early modern period. A broad range of different plays by authors from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries are examined to determine if the non-standard spellings contained in these texts… read more | Article
Hickey, Raymond. 2010. Language change. Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives, Fried, Mirjam, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 171–202
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Hickey, Raymond. 2010. Language change. Handbook of Pragmatics: 2010 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–38
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Assessing non-standard texts from previous centuries of necessity involves examining the notion of ‘standard’ which existed before the present. The modern notion of standard English is an eighteenth-century development which builds on formal usage prior to that. The prescriptivism which arose at… read more | Article
Tyrkkö, Jukka, Raymond Hickey and Ville Marttila. 2010. Exploring Early Modern English Medical Texts: Manual for EMEMT Presenter. Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 219–278
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Hickey, Raymond. 2008. Feature loss in 19th century Irish English. The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present, Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen (eds.), pp. 229–243
The current contribution is concerned with the disappearance of a number of dialect features from the English language in Ireland during the course of the 19th century. At the outset of this century there were many archaic and dialectal features from earlier input varieties of English as well as… read more | Article
This contribution looks at typical changes of sounds and views these as sets of changes the members of which are linked. It also considers the directions of sound changes, considering these as natural pathways (in the case of lenition) or trajectories among vowel movements in which different… read more | Article
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Hickey, Raymond. 2003. 15. The German address system: Binary and scalar at once. Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems, Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), pp. 401–425
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Hickey, Raymond. 2003. Language change. Handbook of Pragmatics: 2001 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–35
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The intention of the present article is to examine the linguistic features typical of the Irish-derived community in contemporary Newfoundland and to relate these to the varieties of Irish English in the south-east of Ireland, the region from which most of the Irish settlers emigrated in the late… read more | Article
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