Linguistic Communities and Migratory Processes : : Newcomers Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation in Northern Ireland / / Karen P. Corrigan.

This inter-disciplinary book is the first in an Irish context to address issues connected with the ‘super-diversifying’ of language and society engendered by recent and historical migrations. It analyses novel data from interviews with allochthonous and autochthonous groups of monolingual and pluril...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 106
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 397 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Part I: Migration and language ecologies
  • 1 Population movements: impetus and process
  • 2 Migration and language ecology: pre-history to Cromwell
  • 3 Migration and language ecology: enlightenment to famine
  • 4 Migration and language ecology: partition to globalisation
  • Part II: Migration, acquisition and change
  • 5 Processes of language contact, shift and acquisition
  • 6 Fieldwork, data collection methods and research tools
  • 7 Hitt(ING) an Armagh Target
  • 8 No taming the Armagh vernacular either
  • 9 Going global and sounding hyperlocal in Armagh
  • 10 Population movements: sociolinguistic consequences
  • References
  • Language index
  • Subject index