Ethnicity and language change
Subtitle: English in (London)Derry, Northern Ireland
By: Kevin McCafferty.
Series: Impact, studies in language and society ;; v. 7; Impact, studies in language and society ;; 7.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: English language -- Dialects -- Northern Ireland -- Londonderry.; English language -- Variation -- Northern Ireland -- Londonderry.; Ethnic groups -- Northern Ireland -- Londonderry.; Ethnicity -- Northern Ireland -- Londonderry.; Derry (Northern Ireland) -- Social conditions.; Derry (Northern Ireland) -- Ethnic relations.; Derry (Northern Ireland) -- Languages.
Description: Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this book takes up the neglected question of how ethnic division interacts with variation and change in Northern Irish English. It identifies an idealised folk model of harmonious communities, in spite of the social divide and open conflict that have long affected the region; this model affects daily life and sociolinguistic studies alike.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-240) and index.