Sociolinguistics in Ireland

Part I. Language and Society in Contemporary Ireland

1. English in Ireland: Development and Varieties
Raymond Hickey

2. The Irish Language in Present-day Ireland
Brian Ó Catháin

3. The Irish Language and the Media
Iarfhlaith Watson

4. Irish-English Code-switching: a Sociolinguistic Perspective
Siobhán Ní Laoire

5. The Sociolinguistics of Language Use in Ireland
Anne Barron, Irina Pandarova

Part II. Language and Society in Irish History

6. Language Relations in Early Ireland
Patricia Ronan

7. From Early Modern Ireland to the Great Famine
Liam Mac Mathúna

8. Language Shift and Language Revival in Ireland
Regina Uí Chollatáin

9. Language, Politics and Identity in Ireland: a Historical Overview
Tony Crowley

10. Emigrant Letters: Exploring the ‘Grammar of the Conquered’
Kevin McCafferty

11. Society, Language and Irish Emigration
Raymond Hickey

Part III. Sociolinguistic Interfaces

12. Second-language Acquisition of Irish and the Role of Reading
Tina Hickey, Nancy Stenson

13. The Language of Irish Writing in English
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno

14. Irish Society as Portrayed in Irish Films
Shane Walshe

15. Translation and Society in Ireland, 1900-Present
Kathleen Shields

16. Sociolinguistic Information and Irish English Corpora
Elaine Vaughan, Brian Clancy

Nyckelord: Linguistics, Language Change, Sociolinguistics, Social History, History of Britain and Ireland, Historical Linguistics, Sociology, general