Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context

This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts. The editors take an interdisciplinary approach, exploring the ways in which culture, identity and meaning-making are constructed and performed through a variety of

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Edited by Diana Villanueva Romero, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno and Manuel Sánchez García

Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context

Diana Villanueva Romero Carolina P. Amador-Moreno Manuel Sánchez García Editors

Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context

Editors Diana Villanueva Romero Universidad de Extremadura Cáceres, Spain

Carolina P. Amador-Moreno Universidad de Extremadura Cáceres, Spain

Manuel Sánchez García Universidad de Extremadura Cáceres, Spain

ISBN 978-3-319-66028-8    ISBN 978-3-319-66029-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66029-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017956117 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Serge Ostroverhoff / Alamy Stock Vector Design by Akihiro Nakayama Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Contents

Introduction   1 Carolina P. Amador-Moreno and Diana Villanueva Romero  oicing the ‘Knacker’: Analysing the Comedy of the V Rubberbandits  13 Elaine Vaughan and Máiréad Moriarty  e’s After Getting Up a Load of Wind: A Corpus-Based H Exploration of be + after + V-ing Constructions in Spoken and Written Corpora  47 Carolina P. Amador-Moreno and Anne O’Keeffe ‘I Intend to Try Some Other Part of the Worald’: Evidence of Schwa-­Epenthesis in the Historical Letters of Irish Emigrants  75 Persijn M. de Rijke  EG/AUX Contraction in Eighteenth-­Century Irish N English Emigrant Letters 105 Dania Jovanna Bonness v

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 Corpus-Based Approach to Waiting for Godot’s A Stage Directions: A Comparison between the French and the English Version 139 Pablo Ruano San Segundo  amuel Beckett’s Irish Voice in Not