Irish English 40 Years On
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https://doi.org/10.35903/teanga.v13i.12351Keywords:
Irish English, Corpus Linguistics, Irish English Variational Pragmatics, phonetics, SociolinguisticsAbstract
This introductory chapter offers an overview of the field of Irish English studies in the last 40 years, starting from the original 1985 Teanga special issue, which was edited by and Donall Ó Baoill, and overviewing the latest publications.
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