Irish English as Represented in Film

This study is the first of its kind to analyse the representation of Irish English in film. Using a corpus of 50 films, ranging from John Ford's The Informer (1935) to Lenny Abrahamson's Garage (2007), the author examines the extent to which Irish English grammatical, discourse and lexical features are present in the films and provides a qualitative analysis of the accents in these works. The authenticity of the language is called into question and discussed in relation to the phenomenon of the Stage Irishman.

List of contents

Contents: Irish English - Hiberno-English - Accent in film - Dialect coaches - Linguistic stereotypes - Language acquisition - Perceptual dialectology - Literary dialect - Accent hallucination.

About the author

The Author: Shane Walshe studied English and German at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has lectured at the universities of Bamberg and Zurich and worked as a dialect coach in theatre. His main areas of interest are varieties of English, perceptual dialectology and second language acquisition. The author has presented papers at international conferences in South Korea, Spain and Poland.

Report

«This important study opens up new avenues for further interdisciplinary research and is an important addition to field of research on Irish English.»
(Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 40/2017)

Product details

• Authors: Shane Walshe
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9783631586822
• ISBN: 978-3-631-58682-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 29 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft / Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics; Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft / Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies