Affiliation:
1. Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany
Abstract
Abstract
The chapter provides a concise description of the historical roots of Galway as an urban centre, and of sociolinguistic developments that led to English, rather than Irish, becoming its dominant language. It addresses the question of how persisting contact between Irish and English has impacted on the development of Irish English in the city between the late twelfth century and today. Secondly, the chapter presents a range of vowel and consonant features that are characteristic of Irish English in Galway City, and for which contemporary variationist sociolinguistic research has found systematic correlations with microsociological local categories and configurations. Finally, building on existing studies of local linguistic landscapes, the chapter addresses possible directions that sociolinguistic research, both variationist and cognitive in nature, may take in future in order to further research socio-cultural and cognitive-conceptual variability in Irish English in Galway City within the general mind set of third-wave sociolinguistic endeavours.
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