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Publication details [#65131]

Rieder, Maria. 2018. Irish Travellers’ views on Cant: what folk criteria of languageness tell us about the community. Language Awareness 27 (1,2) : 40–60.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This paper claims that Irish Travellers’ languageness ideologies and their definition of Cant are tightly related to their social reality observations. Cant is a communicative code employed by Travellers alongside English in Traveller-particular situations.