Publications

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

Keywords

age | code | communication | evaluation | folk language

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

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.