Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context

Takes a new and interdisciplinary approach to concepts of voice and discourse in the Irish contextExamines style, discourse, historical variants of Irish-English, the traits of contemporary usage of spoken English in Ireland, the translation of Irish texts into European languages, and the socio-cultural subtexts of Irish writingAnalyses a wide range of material including not only Irish literature, but also media documents, private correspondence, translations into other languages, and contemporary spoken discourse

Takes a new and interdisciplinary approach to concepts of voice and discourse in the Irish context Examines style, discourse, historical variants of Irish-English, the traits of contemporary usage of spoken English in Ireland, the translation of Irish texts into European languages, and the socio-cultural subtexts of Irish writing Analyses a wide range of material including not only Irish literature, but also media documents, private correspondence, translations into other languages, and contemporary spoken discourse

Autorentext
Diana Villanueva Romero is Lecturer at the University of Extremadura, Spain. She is one of the pioneering voices of ecocriticism in Spain, focusing mainly on the study of ecocriticism as a global phenomenon and on animal studies. Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Senior Lecturer and director of the Research Institute for Linguistics and Applied Languages (LINGLAP) at the University of Extremadura, Spain. Her research interests centre on Irish English, as well as sociolinguistics, stylistics, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, and she has published widely on these topics. Manuel Sánchez García is Senior Lecturer at the University of Extremadura, Spain. His research specialities focus on discourse and text analysis, and the application of linguistics to the study of literary language and literary translation.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction; Carolina P. Amador Moreno and Diana Villanueva Romero.- Chapter 2. Voicing the 'Knacker': Analysing the Comedy of the Rubberbandits; Elaine Vaughan and Máiréad Moriarty.- Chapter 3. "I intend to try some other part of the worald." Evidence of schwa-epenthesis in the historical letters of Irish emigrants; Persijn M. de Rijke.- Chapter 4. NEG/AUX contraction in eighteenth-century Irish English emigrant letters; Dania Jovanna Bonnes.- Chapter 5. A Corpus-Based Approach to Waiting for Godot's Stage Directions: A Comparison between the French and the English Version; Pablo Ruano San Segundo.- Chapter 6. Samuel Beckett's Irish Voice in Not I; José Francisco Fernández.- Chapter 7. Bernard Shaw and the Subtextual Irish Question; Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martínez.- Chapter 8. Voices from War, a Privileged Fado; Daniel de Zubía Fernández.- Chapter 9. A Century Apart: Intimacy, Love and Desire from James Joyce to Emma Donoghue; Teresa Casal.- Chapter 10. Foreign Voices and the Troubles: Northern Irish fiction in French, German and Spanish Translation; Stephanie Schwerter.