By their Tongue Divided

Todd, Loreto

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“…Appropriately, however, he attends to political considerations, seeing Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland as ethnic formations with opposing nationalisms -"proto-nation-states" engaged in a struggle for autonomy, which shapes each group's cultural characteristics as well as the relationship between themdrawing on models by A.D. Smith and Thomas Eriksen. Thus he focuses on current struggles, though in the light of a history of settlement and colonization, rather than providing an essentially historical reading of contemporary ethnic variation, as in Todd (1984).…”

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2002

Int J App Linguistics

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2001, Teaching Literature in a Second Language. Edinburgh University Press, 205 pages, ISBN: 0 7486 1259 9. Reviewed by ALAN CARDEW University of EssexWriting a review of the Parkinson and Reid Thomas book is in reality writing a review of a review, or even of an annotated bibliography. Teaching Literature in a Second Language diligently applies itself to bringing together literary theory, stylistics, cultural studies, applied linguistic methodology -including a review of ELT methodology for teaching literature, narrative theory and genre analysis. In ch. 7 alone we encounter linguistic paradigms, the ethnomethodology of speech acts, and pragmatics, each of which is allowed at least a page of its own -scarcely room to include the breakdown into their compositional elements; the ethnography of speech acts, following Hymes (1972), is decomposed into S Settings P Participants E Ends A Act sequences K Keys I Instrumentalities N Norms G Genres.There follows a two-or three-line definition of each, and then we are rushed on the next page into ethnomethodology with its seven features, and then on the next we have all of Grice's maxims in four lines plus Leech's (1983) addition of the maxim of politeness.REVIEW 241

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2002

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“…Unfortunately, the only writers to directly tackle the question, Todd (1984) and Millar (1987), produced an inconclusive debate, because it was conducted at cross-purposes (McCafferty 1994a). Basically, the discussion took place on two different levels: Todd's (1984) claims -essentially repeated in later publications (Todd 1989a;1989b;) -are based on research into usage, while Millar's refutation (1987) uses data from accent evaluation tests and selfreports. Todd's study is lacking in some respects, the most important of which is perhaps that her data is presented in list form, giving an impression of categorical differences between Catholic and Protestant Englishes (assumed to have remained distinct since the seventeenth-century Plantation of Ulster), rather than attempting a quantitative analysis, which would bring out the extent of overlapping, and permit study of the influence exerted on usage by ethnic background.…”

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McCafferty

1998

EWW

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Work on Northern Hiberno-English (NHE) generally accepts a consensus view that plays down or overlooks interactions between ethnic division and language variation. A study of Derry/Londonderry English (DLE) indicates that, for a feature involved in ongoing change, ethnicity is a salient social factor. The (e) variable in the FACE-class is subject to change in which a distinction between "Standard" NHE [e] and vernacular [I] is giving way to a three-way distinction which for some speakers adds ingliding [is] diphthongs. The change originates in the east of Northern Ireland, especially Belfast, and may have been in progress for some time. It is entering DLE through the Protestant middle class, and diphthongs are now the predominant vernacular form among Protestant teenagers of both sexes and all class backgrounds. While it has made little progress among Catholics, it is currently found mainly among the Catholic middle class. The ethnic boundary is not an impermeable barrier, but it has a considerable delaying effect on the spread of this innovation.

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“…Todd (1984) hypothesised that Irish English features of Irish origin are specifically characteristic of Catholic speech in Northern Ireland, reflecting the greater likelihood that Catholics are descended from Irish-speaking Catholic ancestors (whilst Protestants are more likely to be descended from Protestant settlers from England and Scotland). Since levels of epenthesis in SwTE are the same for Protestant and Catholic speakers (see Section 2.3), either Todd's hypothesis is incorrect or this feature is not of Irish origin (or both).…”

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The Origins of Epenthesis in Liquid+Sonorant Clusters in Mid‐Ulster English

Maguire

2018

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Epenthesis in liquid+sonorant clusters is a well known feature of Irish English, almost universally assumed to be the result of contact with Irish, which has extensive epenthesis. However, epenthesis was (and still is to a degree) common in English and Scots in Britain, specifically in liquid+sonorant clusters in stem-level codas. This paper examines epenthesis in Mid-Ulster English (MUE), comparing it to epenthesis in Irish, English and Scots. This comparison reveals that epenthesis in MUE is essentially identical to epenthesis in English and Scots, diachronically and synchronically, and is not very like epenthesis in Irish. At most, Irish played a reinforcing role in the development of epenthesis in MUE. That this most 'Irish-like' of features of this Irish English dialect is not of Irish origin has important consequences for our understanding of the historical phonology of MUE and other Irish English dialects. 1 I would like to thank my colleague Pavel Iosad and two anonymous reviewers for their very helpful feedback on this paper.

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The Origins of Epenthesis in Liquid+Sonorant Clusters in Mid‐Ulster English

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