Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context

296 Pages·2018·3.981 MB·English

by  Diana Villanueva Romero, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Manuel Sánchez García, (eds.)

VOICE &
DISCOURSE
IN THE IRISH
CONTEXT
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 Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
Universidad de Extremadura Universidad de Extremadura
Cáceres, Spain Cáceres, Spain
Manuel Sánchez García
Universidad de Extremadura
Cáceres, Spain
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Contents
Introduction 1
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno and Diana Villanueva Romero
Voicing the ‘Knacker’: Analysing the Comedy of the
Rubberbandits 13
Elaine Vaughan and Máiréad Moriarty
He’s After Getting Up a Load of Wind: A Corpus-Based
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
NEG/AUX Contraction in Eighteenth- Century Irish
English Emigrant Letters 105
Dania Jovanna Bonness
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A Corpus-Based Approach to Waiting for Godot’s
Stage Directions: A Comparison between the French
and the English Version 139
Pablo Ruano San Segundo
Samuel Beckett’s Irish Voice in Not I 169
José Francisco Fernández
Bernard Shaw and the Subtextual Irish Question 187
Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín
Voices from War, a Privileged Fado 209
Daniel de Zubía Fernández
A Century Apart: Intimacy, Love and Desire from James
Joyce to Emma Donoghue 235
Teresa Casal
Foreign Voices and the Troubles: Northern Irish Fiction in
French, German and Spanish Translation 265
Stephanie Schwerter
Index 291
List of Figures
Voicing the ‘Knacker’: Analysing the Comedy of the Rubberbandits
Image 1 The Rubberbandits (reprinted by permission). L: Blind
Boy Boat Club; R: Mr. Chrome 19
Fig. 1 Orthographic reification of ‘Limerick/Rubberbandits’
English’. Source: Extracted comments from Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/TheRubberbandits 29
Image 2 (authors’ own) 30
He’s After Getting Up a Load of Wind: A Corpus-Based Exploration
of be + after + V-ing Constructions in Spoken and Written Corpora
Image 1 Concordance lines from Roddy Doyle’s novel The Snapper 52
Fig. 1 Past and present reference forms in contemporary writing 57
‘I Intend to Try Some Other Part of the Worald’: Evidence of Schwa-
Epenthesis in the Historical Letters of Irish Emigrants
Fig. 1 Words (n) in CORIECOR per decade 80
Fig. 2 Words (n; left y-axis) and epenthesis (n; right y-axis) in
CORIECOR 86
Fig. 3 Distribution of epenthesis (n) in expected environments
for IrE 90
Fig. 4 Distribution of epenthesis (n) in unexpected environments
for IrE 91
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Fig. 5 Eight most common environments with epenthesis (n)
over time. Unexpected environments with dotted line 92
Fig. 6 Geographical distribution of epenthesis (n) in Ireland 93
NEG/AUX Contraction in Eighteenth- Century Irish
English Emigrant Letters
Fig. 1 Distribution of words per decade 110
Fig. 2 Distribution of contracted and full forms with be
according to the letter writer’s geographic origin 119
Fig. 3 Distribution of contracted and full forms with will
according to the letter writer’s geographic origin 119
Fig. 4 Distribution of AUX-contracted won’t and NEG-contracted
’ll not by social rank and biological sex (n = 97) 126
A Corpus-Based Approach to Waiting for Godot’s Stage Directions:
A Comparison between the French and the English Version
Fig. 1 Concordance search ESTRAGON: [* (20 of 91 examples) 144
Fig. 2 Concordance search (* for Estragon (20 of 72 examples) 145
List of Tables
Voicing the ‘Knacker’: Analysing the Comedy of the Rubberbandits
Table 1 <Boards.ie> discussion, 15–12–2010 20
Table 2 Rubberbandits’ Guides to Corpus (RGC) 23
Table 3 Wordlist for RGC (generated using WordSmith Tools 5, Scott
2008) 24
Table 4 Wordlist for RGC and LCIE compared (generated using
WordSmith Tools, Scott 2008) 27
Table 5 Keyword list for RGC using LCIE as reference corpus
(generated using WordSmith Tools 5) 28
He’s After Getting Up a Load of Wind: A Corpus-Based Exploration
of be + after + V-ing Constructions in Spoken and Written Corpora
Table 1 Interactional relationship types (based on McCarthy) 53
Table 2 Literary corpus from the Corpus of Irish English 54
Table 3 Quantitative results for be + after + V -ing in LCIE and
CIE literary corpus 56
Table 4 Patterns found in corpora 57
‘I Intend to Try Some Other Part of the Worald’: Evidence of Schwa-
Epenthesis in the Historical Letters of Irish Emigrants
Table 1 The five most common words with epenthesis (n) and
their spelling variations (n) in CORIECOR 86
Table 2 Distribution of epenthesis in country and Henry 87
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Table 3 Epenthesis (n) in CORIECOR by cluster in which it occurs.
Expected clusters for IrE in bold 87
Table 4 Epenthesis (n) in CORIECOR by gender 94
Table 5 Social rank or occupation of letter writers with epenthesis 95
Table 6 Epenthesis (n) in CORIECOR by social rank 95
Table 7 Epenthesis (n) in CORIECOR by religion 97
NEG/AUX Contraction in Eighteenth- Century Irish
English Emigrant Letters
Table 1 Full forms and contracted forms in eighteenth-century
emigrant letters 113
Table 2 Use of contracted and full forms with be, 1701–1800
(n = 175) 115
Table 3 Use of contracted and full forms with will, 1701–1800
(n = 97) 117
Table 4 Types of subjects with will, 1761–1800 (n = 91) 117
Table 5 Distribution of contracted and full forms with be
according to biological sex of the letter writers (n = 175) 121
Table 6 Distribution of contracted and full forms with will
according to biological sex of the letter writers (n = 97) 122
Table 7 Rank and status in the eighteenth-century letters 124
Table 8 Frequency of contracted and full forms of will + not
(n = 97) in the letters according to social rank 125
A Corpus-Based Approach to Waiting for Godot’s Stage Directions:
A Comparison between the French and the English Version
Table 1 Stage directions in Waiting for Godot 146
Table 2 Stage directions modelling Pozzo’s utterances 148
Table 3 Stage directions modelling Vladimir’s utterances 149
Table 4 Stage directions modelling Estragon’s utterances 151
Table 5 Recurrent stage directions with Pozzo in Waiting for Godot
and French equivalencies 153
Table 6 Recurrent stage directions with Vladimir in Waiting for
Godot and French equivalencies 154
Table 7 Recurrent stage directions with Estragon in Waiting for
Godot and French equivalencies 156