Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context

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Takes a new and interdisciplinary approach to concepts of voice and discourse in the Irish contextExamines style, discourse, historical variants of Irish-English, the traits of contemporary usage of spoken English in Ireland, the translation of Irish texts into European languages, and the socio-cultural subtexts of Irish writingAnalyses a wide range of material including not only Irish literature, but also media documents, private correspondence, translations into other languages, and contemporary spoken discourse

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Diana Villanueva Romero is Lecturer at the University of Extremadura, Spain. She is one of the pioneering voices of ecocriticism in Spain, focusing mainly on the study of ecocriticism as a global phenomenon and on animal studies. Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Senior Lecturer and director of the Research Institute for Linguistics and Applied Languages (LINGLAP) at the University of Extremadura, Spain. Her research interests centre on Irish English, as well as sociolinguistics, stylistics, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, and she has published widely on these topics. Manuel Sánchez García is Senior Lecturer at the University of Extremadura, Spain. His research specialities focus on discourse and text analysis, and the application of linguistics to the study of literary language and literary translation.

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