TY - BOOK ID - 956173 TI - Ethnicity and language change PY - 2001 VL - 7 SN - 9027218382 1588110028 9786612163494 1282163493 9027299307 9789027218384 9789027299307 9781588110022 9781282163492 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co. DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of minorities KW - Sociolinguistics KW - English language KW - Dialectology KW - Northern Ireland KW - Ethnic groups KW - Ethnicity KW - Dialects KW - Variation KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Linguistics / General KW - English Language KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Ethnic identity KW - Group identity KW - Cultural fusion KW - Multiculturalism KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Ethnic identities KW - Ethnic nations (Ethnic groups) KW - Groups, Ethnic KW - Kindred groups (Ethnic groups) KW - Nationalities (Ethnic groups) KW - Peoples (Ethnic groups) KW - Ethnology KW - Germanic languages KW - English language - Dialects - Northern Ireland - Derry KW - English language - Variation - Northern Ireland - Derry KW - Ethnic groups - Northern Ireland - Derry KW - Ethnicity - Northern Ireland - Derry KW - Derry (Northern Ireland) KW - Social conditions. KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Languages. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:956173 AB - Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this book takes up the neglected question of how ethnic division interacts with variation and change in Northern Irish English. It identifies an idealised folk model of harmoniouscommunities, in spite of the social divide and open conflict that have long affected the region; this model affects daily life and sociolinguistic studies alike. A reading of sociolinguistic studies from the region revealsethnolinguistic differentiation. Qualitative analysis of material from (London)Derry shows people often stressing tolerance in their community, while accounts of their activities contain evidence of ethnic division and strife. Quantitative analysis charts six changes in (London)Derry English. Variation correlates to varying degrees with age, ethnicity, class, sex and social network. The ethnic dimension, while not the most important parameter in all cases, plays a role in relation to all the changes examined. ER -