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Nineteenth-century Irish English: A Corpus-based Linguistic and Discursive Analysis
Author(s): Daniela Cesiri (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773430709
- ISBN-13: 9780773430709
Book Description
his book is the study of linguistic and discursive aspects of 19th century Irish English in order to introduce new insights into the historical evolution and development of this variety done through the investigation of a particular typology of texts that until now has never been used as a source of historical dialect material. Texts chosen are written transcriptions of oral tales narrated by Irish peasant storytellers and collected by Irish intellectuals concerned with preserving the language in which the tales were transmitted.
