Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. I. Investigating Dublin English; 3. Introduction; 4. Collecting data; 5. II. English in present-day Dublin; 6. Introduction; 7. Recent changes in Dublin English; 8. Attitudes to Dublin English; 9. The wider context; 10. The grammar of Dublin English; 11. The vocabulary of Dublin English; 12. Placenames in Dublin; 13. III. Reaching back in time; 14. The history of Englsih in Ireland; 15. Letters as linguistic evidence; 16. Literary texts as linguistic evidence; 17. Prescriptive comments by Dublin authors; 18. Early modern Dublin English; 19. Medieval Irish English; 20. Supraregionalisation; 21. IV. Guide to the CD-ROM; 22. V. Lexical sets for Dublin English; 23. VI. Glossary; 24. Maps; 25. References; 26. Index; 27. Sound files referred to in book

Reviews

Dublin English. Evolution and Change is a unique study of a significant urban variety of English which is undergoing major change. It offers a compelling and persuasive analysis.- backed up by a few hundred speaker recordings - which will be of special interest to sociolinguists world-wide.
*J.K. Chambers*