Fairies, banshees, and the church

Cultural conceptualisations in Irish English

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15711684
AutoresA Peters (0000-0001-9537-1901, University of Potsdam, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen4
Número2
Páginas127-148
Fecha de publicación2017-12-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Language and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2214-3157 • E-ISSN: 2214-3165
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ijolc.4.2.01pet
OpenAlexW2771272426
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas32

The present paper approaches Irish English from a cultural linguistic perspective. It illustrates how the study of cultural schemas, cultural categories, cultural conceptualisations, and conceptual metaphors/metonymies can contribute to the understanding of Irish English as a variety of English whose speech community shares a unique cultural cognition, which is instantiated in linguistic patterns that appear to be ‘marked’ for everybody from outside of Ireland. Drawing from two corpora (ICE-Ireland, Corpus of Galway City Spoken English) as well as from ethnographic research ( Wentz 1911 ; National Folklore Collection 1939/2017 ), the paper discusses possible cultural keywords of Irish English, cultural schemas involving banshees and fairies as well as conceptual metonymies such as the church is authority , all of which can be understood to express particular Irish cultural experiences. The paper also illustrates how cultural conceptualisations are constantly being negotiated and renegotiated through time and across generations within the Irish English speech community. The paper illustrates the applicability of the cultural linguistic paradigm to the study of Irish English, offering a new perspective on a well-studied variety of English

Art · Ethnography · Folklore · Irish · Linguistics · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Visual arts · Anthropology · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism