Nineteenth-century Irish English: a corpus-based linguistic and discursive analysis

This is the first book to carefully analyze the linguistic conventions associated with Irish English folklore. Other books have studied linguistics in this language variety by studying letters, and all have ignored the use of folklore in constructing language conventions. This is the first book to discuss how peasants played a role in the construction of the Irish English languages. The main purpose of this volume is the study of linguistic and discursive aspects of nineteenth-century Irish-English. The purpose is to introduce new insights into the historical evolution and development of this variety of dialect. This is done through the investigation of particular texts that fit a typology that until now have never been used as a source of historical dialect material. The texts chosen are written transcriptions of oral tales narrated by Irish peasant storytellers. Reviews “The work presented by Cesiri aims to add to the study of literary corpora in the context of Irish English.” -Prof. Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, University of Extremadura “… and important contribution to the study of Irish English in the Late Modern period.” -Prof. Marina Dossena, University of Bergamo “Investigates texts that have previously never been used in historical dialectology. The author has skillfully amalgamated different methodological approaches to her work.” -Prof. Susan Kermas, University of Salent