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Introduction
Author(s) -
HICKEY RAYMOND,
VAUGHAN ELAINE
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/weng.12260
Subject(s) - irish , scholarship , linguistics , pragmatics , variation (astronomy) , field (mathematics) , sociology , language contact , corpus linguistics , history , political science , philosophy , mathematics , law , pure mathematics , physics , astrophysics
Since the 1970s there has been a burgeoning interest in Irish English, which in its development and present‐day forms yields considerable insights into language variation and change. Scholarship in the field has proceeded from an initial concern with contact and shift, and the structures they engendered, to a more usage‐based orientation, both in sociolinguistic research into contemporary varieties of Irish English and in the investigation of its specific pragmatics. The basis for this expansion has been an increase in the database for Irish English currently available in a range of corpora which provide statistics and attestations for many features and phenomena.