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Vernacular English in Ireland: History and Linguistic Overview
(2020-05-25)
English has been present on the Emerald Island since about the 13th century, making Irish English the oldest of the vernacular varieties outside Britain. The purpose of this paper is to describe the conditions of the shift ...
The Arrival and Development of the English Language in India
(2020-05-25)
It is widely accepted that the English language is the most important international language in the world. It is because of its importance that there has been a worldwide spread of English. Due to the spread of English, ...
Ó labhraísí mé!: the past, present and future of the Irish language
(2020-05-25)
The case of the Irish language could be considered an anomaly – a nation that, in most of its territory, achieved its independence about 100 years ago should, on paper, not speak the language of their colonizers. However, ...
Off widd de spellin ov werdz: A Sociolinguistic Approximation to Respelling Practices. A Case Study of Scouse Alice
(2020-05-25)
A relatively uninvestigated topic in the literature (Sebba, 2007, p. 12), spelling variation is an interdisciplinary field interpretable as serving the purpose of revaluing the non-standard identities corresponding to the ...
War and cinema in the 20th Century. North and South Korean imagery in the Post-War filmography
(2017-11-24)
This written work attempts to analyse the importance of cinematography in the shaping of ideological ideas in North and South Korea. In order to do that, two movies with similar plots about the Korean War were examined, ...
Scalar Implicatures: a Gricean vs. a Relevance Theory Approach
(2017-11-23)
Griceans have always supported the idea that scalar implicaturesare Quantity-based generalized conversational implicatures (GCI). With the purpose of explaining this phenomenon, they derived their own principles inspired ...
Welsh Nationalism: An Approach
(2018-12-05)
Combining both published and unpublished sources, in this work the nationalist movement in Wales is revisited. Welsh nationalism has showed a weak support in spite of having a culture and language of its own. We will try ...
Non-Binary Gender Identities and Language Use
(2018-12-04)
The sociolinguistic research that has examined the relation between language and gender has experienced a significant change in the past decades. As a matter of fact, a new approach to feminist theory that rejected the ...
Striving for peace: Northern Ireland, from the Good Friday Agreement to Brexit (1998- 2020)
(2020-12-21)
Europe has historically been a battleground for diverse communities, many of which
fighting to achieve some form of power or sovereignty. Medieval battles between
kingdoms lead to wars between empires and lastly to modern ...
Women and judaism: diverse realities between the 19th and 20th centuries
(2020-12-21)
Traditional Jewish communities can be described as androcentric: males have
occupied a central position and they have been the ones to decide women’s place in society. The women archetype in traditional Judaism describes ...