Is there Hiberno-English on them?: Hiberno-English in Modern Irish Literature: The Use of Dialect in Joyce,...

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Gisela Zingg

Is there Hiberno-English on them?

Hiberno-English in Modern Irish Literature: The Use of Dialect in Joyce, O’Brien, Shaw and Friel...

Gisela Zingg

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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
18 July 2013

Language: history & general works; Dialect, slang & jargon; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; ELT background & reference material

This book studies the uses of the dialect known as Hiberno-English in the works of several canonical Irish writers of the twentieth century: James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, George Bernard Shaw and Brian Friel. Irish writers of this period faced the challenge of creating a literature in English that would be independent of the English literary tradition. The use of Hiberno-English is both a literary device and a practice that bears on the question of an Irish national identity.

This work examines above all the uses of Hiberno-English as a literary device. One of the potential functions of a literary text is to call into question received ideas, and the texts discussed here do this with the help of Hiberno-English. Here, this dialect stands as a form of authenticity which is questioned and through which received ideas are criticised.

This book also contains a large corpus whose primary purpose is to record the abundance of Hiberno-English in the works under review. The corpus provides a gloss and outlines the grammatical and phonetic features of Hiberno-English.

By: Gisela Zingg
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9783034314237
ISBN 10: 303431423X
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 18 July 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gisela Zingg graduated from the University of Geneva, Switzerland where she has also worked as a teaching assistant, lecturing, among other things, on Irish literature. Her main areas of interest are linguistic aspects of literature, especially Irish literature, and language behaviour in multilingual contexts.