New Perspectives on Irish English 3: CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday 18 June 2015
8:30-9:00 Registration (C1 Corridor, Main Building)
9:00-9:30 Welcome: Professor Tom Lodge, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanties & Social Sciences
Session 1: Enregisterment and Irish English
9:30-10:00: Raymond Hickey (University of Duisberg-Essen)
Enregisterment in Irish English
10:00-10:30: Helen Kelly-Holmes (University of Limerick)
Bleedin’ Spanner – Flippin’ Eejit – marketing discourse as a source of data on Irish-English
10:30: Break
11:00:11:30: Elaine Vaughan & Máiréad Moriarty (University of Limerick)
“As Irish as…” Culture on display in representations of Irish English in television advertising
11:30-12:00: Joan O’Sullivan (University of Limerick)
Audience and referee design in Irish radio advertising
Session 2: Grammar and Irish English
12:00-12:30: Kevin McCafferty (University of Bergen)
‘I Ø not saying this before yours faces it is far behind your backs’ Be-deletion in Irish English, 1731–1840
12:30-13:00: Alison Henry (Ulster University)
Complement shift in Northern Irish English
13:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30: Marc Richards (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Gone but not forgotten: An ‘I-retentionist’ account of the fall and rise of medial-object perfects
14:30-15:00: Alexandra Rehn (University of Konstanz)
A new perspective on the use of the definite article in Irish English
Session 3: Sociophonetics and Irish English
15:00-15:30: Marion Schulte (Bielefeld University)
Using an adapted sociolinguistic interview to gather data on the sociophonetics of Dublin English
15:30 Break
16:00-16:30: Arne Peters (University of Potsdam)
‘I think that’s kinda changed nowadays’ – Western urban Irish English and the dental fricatives (th) and (dh): A variationist sociolinguistic analysis
16:30-17:00: Warren Maguire (University of Edinburgh)
The dialect of southwest Tyrone
Friday 19 June 2015
Session 4: Corpus Approaches
9:30-10:00: Michael McCarthy (University of Limerick & University of Nottingham) & Anne O’Keeffe (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
“’Tis mad, yeah”: Turn openers in Irish and British English
10:00-10:30: Brian Clancy (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end (Seneca): Turn final items in Irish English
10:30 Break
Session 5: Historical Data
11:00-11:30: Carolina Amador-Moreno (Universidad de Extremadura)
Letters from Argentina: Gender and discourse in 19th century emigrant correspondence
11:30-12:00: Gili Diamant (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) & Bettina Migge (University College Dublin)
On collectors and linguists: The Irish National Folklore Collection as a source for Irish English language material
12:00-12:30: Marije van Hattum (University of Lausanne)
The language of threatening notices in nineteenth-century Irish English
12:30-13:00: Patricia Ronan (University of Lausanne)
What else can early loan words tell us about the social relations between the Gael and the Gall?
13:00 Lunch
Session 6: New Speakers of Irish English
14:00-14:30: Karen Corrigan, Adam Mearns & Jennifer Thorburn (Newcastle University)
“From Here to There”: How migration continues transforming the linguistic ecology of Northern Ireland
14:30-15:00: Chloe Diskin (University College Dublin)
New speakers of Irish English: The case of Polish and Chinese migrants in Dublin
15:00 Break
Session 7: Representations of Irish English
15:00-16:00: Ana Maria Terrazas Calero & Carolina Amador-Moreno (Universidad de Extremadura)
‘Oh my God, Ross, he’s, like, SO last month’: ‘New’ uses of so in Dublin English as represented in fiction
16:00-16:30: Shane Walshe (University of Zurich)
Northern versus Southern Irish English: A cinematic corpus-based approach
16:30 Closing Remarks
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