The Oxford Handbook of Irish English

Raymond Hickey, Adjunct Professor, University of Limerick

Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick and former Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research centres around varieties of English, especially Irish English, eighteenth-century English, and issues of standardization of English, language contact, and areal linguistics, as well as sociolinguistic variation and change. Among his recent book publications are The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (CUP, 2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (CUP, 2020), and The Handbook of Language Contact (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020).

Part I. A framework for Irish English
1. Irish English in today's world, Raymond Hickey
2. Language in Early Ireland, Patricia Ronan
3. The history of English in Ireland, 1200-1800, Raymond Hickey
4. Irish English in the nineteenth century, Marije van Hattum
5. Irish-English bilingualism, Liam Mac Mathúna
6. Contact between Irish and English, Raymond Hickey
Part II. Investigating British English
7. The pronunciation of English in Ireland, Raymond Hickey
8. The grammar of Irish English, Markku Filppula
9. The vocabulary of Irish English, John Kirk
10. Mid-Ulster English and Ulster Scots, Warren Maguire
11. Urban English in Northern Ireland, Raymond Hickey
12. Irish English corpus linguistics, Anne O'Keeffe
13. Irish English in advertising, Joan O'Sullivan
14. Irish English in the media, Shane Walshe
15. Emigrant letters from Ireland, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno and Kevin McCafferty
Part III. Irish English in use
16. Dublin English and third wave sociolinguistics, Marion Schulte
17. Irish English in Galway city, Arne Peters
18. Irish English in Cork city, Nicola J. Bessell
19. Irish English and variational pragmatics, Anne Barron
20. Discourse-pragmatic markers in Irish English, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
21. Politeness strategies in Irish English, Elaine Vaughan
22. The language of Irish literature in English, Raymond Hickey
Part IV. Language and the Irish diaspora
23. The spread of Irish English, Raymond Hickey
24. From Ireland to Newfoundland, Sandra Clarke
25. Irish influence on Australian English, Simon Musgrave and Kate Burridge
26. The language of nineteenth-century immigrants to New Zealand, Dania Bonness
Part V. The wider context
27. Perceptions of Irish English, Stephen Lucek
28. Acquisition of Irish English, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway
29. Language and Irish Travellers, Brian Clancy
30. Irish Sign Language: Ireland's third language, Susanne Mohr and Lorraine Leeson
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