Chapter published in:
Language Variation - European Perspectives VII: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017Edited by Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Francisco Díaz Montesinos, Antonio-Manuel Ávila-Muñoz and Matilde Vida-Castro
[Studies in Language Variation 22] 2019
► pp. 160–173
Slit-t in Dublin English
Fergus O’Dwyer | Marino Institute of
Education
The paper presents an analysis of speakers in
Dublin, Ireland who align themselves with an authoritative
interactional identity by realising a slit-t variant. A
statistical analysis is first presented and then salient
patterns of variation are discussed before proceeding to a
qualitative evaluation. The latter highlights the
discourse functions clustering around the slit-t
occurrences, which indicate that a speaker will adopt a
sociopragmatic position, like emphasizing a point. My
interpretations characterize the interactions where slit-t
tokens are found as epistemically-based, inferring how
speakers position themselves and others. The conclusions
include a discussion of how ethnographically informed,
qualitatively-skewed mixed methods can elucidate the
social meaning of linguistic variants.
Keywords: discourse analysis, discourse functions of linguistic variants, Dublin English, ethnography, frication, interactional identity, Irish English, slit-t, social meaning, sociopragmatics
Published online: 12 December 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.22.10odw
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.22.10odw
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