Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One- Irish English: Historical Overview and Description; Chapter Two- The Corpus of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales; Chapter Three- Discourse Markets in Nineteenth-Century Irish English; Chapter Four- Adverbs and Prepositions in Nineteenth-Century Isrish English; Chapter Five: Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This is the first book to carefully analyze the linguistic conventions associated with Irish English folklore. Other books have studied linguistics in this language variety by studying letters, and all have ignored the use of folklore in constructing language conventions. This is the first book to discuss how peasants played a role in the construction of the Irish English languages
