Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context
Editors: Villanueva Romero, Diana, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Sánchez García, Manuel (Eds.)
Free Preview- Takes a new and interdisciplinary approach to concepts of voice and discourse in the Irish contextExamines style, discourse, historical variants of Irish-English, the traits of contemporary usage of spoken English in Ireland, the translation of Irish texts into European languages, and the socio-cultural subtexts of Irish writingAnalyses a wide range of material including not only Irish literature, but also media documents, private correspondence, translations into other languages, and contemporary spoken discourse
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This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts. The editors take an interdisciplinary approach, exploring the ways in which culture, identity and meaning-making are constructed and performed through a variety of voices and discourses. This edited collection analyses the work of well-known Irish authors such as Beckett, Joyce and G. B. Shaw, combining new methodologies with more traditional approaches to the study of literary discourse and style. Over the course of the volume, the contributors also discuss how Irish voices are received in translation, and how marginal voices are portrayed in the Irish mediascape. This dynamic book brings together a multitude of contrasting perspectives, and is sure to appeal to students and scholars of Irish literature, migration studies, discourse analysis, traductology and dialectology.
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Diana Villanueva Romero is Lecturer at the University of Extremadura, Spain. She is one of the pioneering voices of ecocriticism in Spain, focusing mainly on the study of ecocriticism as a global phenomenon and on animal studies. Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Senior Lecturer and director of the Research Institute for Linguistics and Applied Languages (LINGLAP) at the University of Extremadura, Spain. Her research interests centre on Irish English, as well as sociolinguistics, stylistics, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, and she has published widely on these topics. Manuel Sánchez García is Senior Lecturer at the University of Extremadura, Spain. His research specialities focus on discourse and text analysis, and the application of linguistics to the study of literary language and literary translation.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-11
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Voicing the ‘Knacker’: Analysing the Comedy of the Rubberbandits
Pages 13-45
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He’s After Getting Up a Load of Wind: A Corpus-Based Exploration of be + after + V-ing Constructions in Spoken and Written Corpora
Pages 47-73
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‘I Intend to Try Some Other Part of the Worald’: Evidence of Schwa-Epenthesis in the Historical Letters of Irish Emigrants
Pages 75-104
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NEG/AUX Contraction in Eighteenth-Century Irish English Emigrant Letters
Pages 105-137
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context
- Editors
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- Diana Villanueva Romero
- Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
- Manuel Sánchez García
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-66029-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-66029-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-66028-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-88157-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 294
- Number of Illustrations
- 15 b/w illustrations
- Topics
