This volume continues the Dialects of English series, and complements Irish English volume
1: Northern Ireland, by Karen Corrigan. Focusing on Irish English in the Republic of Ireland …

This paper demonstrates the need for a uniform model of discourse variation analysis which
is equipped to capture the complex nature of discourse variation and change whilst also …

This article reports on the use of double modals, a non-standard syntactic feature, in the
contemporary speech of the UK and Ireland. Most data on the geographic extent of the …

This book is about the plurality of standard English across the anglophone world, hence the
deliberate use of the plural in the title and of a lowercase's' in the word 'standard'. It may be …

Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change demonstrates how particular
styles and varieties of language are chosen and represented in the media, to reveal …

Corpora of transcribed regional speech are important for the study of dialects of English, but
relatively few large corpora of transcribed naturalistic speech from the United Kingdom and …

Working from the perspective of Leech's (The Pragmatics of Politeness. Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2014) modification to Blum-Kulka et al.'s (Cross-cultural pragmatics …

This paper reports on the efforts of twelve national teams in building the International
Comparable Corpus (ICC; https://korpus. cz/icc) that will contain highly comparable datasets …

Corpus Perspectives on the Spoken Models used by EFL Teachers illustrates the key
principles and practical guidelines for the design and exploitation of corpora for classroom …

Irish English (IrE) was initially learned as a second language as a result of the successive
colonizations of Ireland by speakers of English and Scots dialects that began in the Middle …