Socio-Pragmatic Variation in Ireland: Using Pragmatic Variation to Construct Social Identities

by Martin Schweinberger (Editor), Patricia Ronan (Editor)

Overview

Pragmatics represents the study of language use in socially grounded contexts and it is thus a central discipline in Linguistics. Due to its focus on language use, it has been referred to as a transdiscipline that interacts with a broad variety of disciplines that are concerned with social action and, as such, pragmatics overlaps with many other linguistic and non-linguistic disciplines.

Irish English is one of the earliest varieties of English to have attracted the interest of scholars working on pragmatic variation. From a sociolinguistic and a pragmatics perspective, it represents one of the best studied varieties of English and can thus be argued to offer important impulses to the study of variationist pragmatics in general. Ulster Scots, though in close contact with Irish English, has received less attention.

Given this important position of Irish English in pragmatics research and the paucity of such research on (Ulster) Scots, this volume explicitly focuses on socio-pragmatics and deals with the way speakers in and around Ireland use language in a way so that it assists them in the construction of their social identities or helps them navigate socio-cultural spaces.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110791532
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	07/22/2024
Series:	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , #378
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Martin Schweinberger, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australien; Patricia Ronan, Technische Universität Dortmund.

Martin Schweinberger, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Patricia Ronan, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany.