Pragmatic Markers in Irish English
Edited by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 258] 2015. vi, 443 pp.
Kevin McCafferty
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kevin McCafferty plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Ethnicity and Language Change: English in (London)Derry, Northern Ireland
Kevin McCafferty
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 7] 2001. xx, 244 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2019 Chapter 6. ‘I have not time to say more at present’: Negating lexical have in Irish English Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 119–138 | Chapter
Lexical or stative possesssive have has been negated in five ways. Alongside ancient nominal negation (I have no NP) and a newer variant with got (I have got no NP), three verbal negation strategies are found. Bare negation (I have not NP) is the oldest of these, but has ceded ground over the last… read more
2019 Chapter 5. ‘but a[h] Hellen d[ea]r sure you have it more in your power in every respect than I have’ – Discourse marker sure in Irish English Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 73–94 | Chapter
Discourse marker sure has been a distinctive feature of Irish English for several centuries. Evidence from the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence highlights differences between discourse marker sure in IrE and other varieties. The IrE discourse marker does not typically occur between subject… read more
2016 Review of Kallen (2013): Irish English Volume 2: The Republic of Ireland English World-Wide 37:1, pp. 86–90 | Review
2015 ‘[B]ut sure its only a penny after all’: Irish English discourse marker sure Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English, Dossena, Marina (ed.), pp. 179–197 | Article
Sure as a discourse marker is salient in Irish English, and it has been traditionally associated with the Irish since the seventeenth century. Its frequency in textual representations of Irish English seems to suggest that it was enregistered to audiences in historical contexts, and its occurrence… read more
2015 “Sure this is a great country for drink and rowing at elections”: Pragmatic markers in the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence, 1750�1940 Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan (eds.), pp. 270–291 | Article
Few features of Irish English have been studied diachronically and the area of
pragmatic markers is likewise largely neglected even as regards present-day
Irish English (Corrigan 2010). This study uses data from the Corpus of Irish
English Correspondence (CORIECOR) to survey the history of some of… read more
2015 Introduction Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2012 A Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR): A tool for studying the history and evolution of Irish English New Perspectives on Irish English, Migge, Bettina and Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds.), pp. 265–288 | Article
Using samples from the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence, the rise of the progressive in Irish English is traced from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Comparison with other varieties shows the progressive was no more frequent in Irish English than in other varieties up to the… read more
2012 “I will be expecting a letter from you before this reaches you”: A corpus-based study of shall/will variation in Irish English correspondence Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 179–204 | Article
The Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR) is being developed as a diachronic corpus for tracing the emergence and development of features of IrE, including stylistic, regional, and social variation. CORIECOR currently has good coverage of the period 1740–1940. For historical comparison… read more
2011 Review of Moylan (2008): Southern Irish English: Review and Exemplary Texts English World-Wide 32:3, pp. 379–383 | Review
2011 Review of Corrigan (2010): Irish English. Volume 1 – Northern Ireland English World-Wide 32:2, pp. 250–255 | Review
2010 ‘[H]ushed and lulled full chimes for pushed and pulled’: Writing Ulster English Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 139–162 | Article
The history of Northern Irish English is rather episodic because studies of written Ulster English tend to be case studies of particular writers, texts or text types, and only a small number of linguistic features have been examined. This chapter surveys work done on this variety of English based… read more
2008 On the trail of "intolerable Scoto-Hibernic jargon": Ulster English, Irish English and dialect hygiene in William Carleton's Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry (First Series, 1830) English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dossena, Marina, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti (eds.), pp. 171–184 | Article
Although William Carleton’s literary dialect is regarded as reliably accurate, early in his career, Carleton practiced ‘dialect hygiene’. Carleton began this practice between the first two stories of Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry (1830). Scots-derived features of Ulster English and… read more
2004 ‘[T]hunder storms is verry dangese in this countrey they come in less than a minnits notice...’: The Northern Subject Rule in Southern Irish English English World-Wide 25:1, pp. 51–79 | Article
It has been suggested that use of the Northern Subject Rule (NSR) in Southern Irish English (SIrE) is the result of diffusion from Ulster-Scots dialects of the North of Ireland, where many Scots settled in the 17th century. 19th-century Irish-Australian emigrant letters show the main NSR constraint… read more
2004 Innovation in language contact: Be after V-ing as a future gram in Irish English, 1670 to the present Diachronica 21:1, pp. 113–160 | Article
The be after V-ing gram has been used in representations of Irish English since the seventeenth century. In early texts it often has future meanings that have been regarded as inauthentic because the Irish Gaelic construction that is the source of the gram is a perfect. This article accounts for… read more
1998 Barriers to Change: Ethnic Division and Phonological Innovation in Northern Hiberno-English English World-Wide 19:1, pp. 7–32 | Article
Work on Northern Hiberno-English (NHE) generally accepts a consensus view that plays down or overlooks interactions between ethnic division and language variation. A study of Derry/Londonderry English (DLE) indicates that, for a feature involved in ongoing change, ethnicity is a salient social… read more