Kevin Mccafferty
Biographic Data
| ID | 146441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Mccafferty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccafferty |
| SIGNATURE | MCCAFFERTY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4668-9187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Shifting mediates the relationship between ethnic identity, acculturation status, and racism-related stress among Asian American women
Development and validation of the Asian American Women’s Shifting Scale (AsAWSS)
The present research developed and validated an instrument to measure shifting or self-altering presentation strategies among Asian American women. A 12-item instrument was developed to measure components of shifting phenomena based in part on literature review, focus group feedback, and an assessment from cultural experts. The initial validation study, using principal axis factor analysis with a promax rotation, was conducted with a national sam…
Irish English in emigrant letters
The language of letters, especially from lower social strata, may provide some of the best data available for pre‐twentieth‐century language history from below, because it may accurately represent features of spoken language. To illustrate how much variation – and examples of ‘non‐standard’/vernacular usage – may be extracted from letters, this study reports on a survey of citations in an early historical study of Irish emigration based on letter…
Wolf, Nicholas M
I Dont Care One Cent What [Ø] Goying on in Great Britten
In the English-speaking world, be-deletion, or copula absence, is best known as a likely creole feature of African American English (AAE) and basilectal Caribbean Englishes. This historical case study examines Raymond Hickey’s contention that attestations of be-deletion in present-day Irish English (IrE) must lead to revision of accounts assuming that be-deletion does not and did not occur in the Englishes of Britain and Ireland. A survey of repo…
Fictionalising orality
Fictional texts display traces of orality to a greater or lesser extent. As argued in a great deal of scholarly work on stylistics, whatever the precise characteristics of the textual representation of orality may be, for interactive talk in fiction to be understood, it must be interpretable in terms of the same rules of discourse that govern everyday verbal interaction. That is not to say that fictional dialogue is in any sense the same as real …
Victories fastened in grammar
In ‘Murdering the language’ Moya Cannon imagines Ireland as a shore washed over by human tides. Each invasion added fresh layers to landscape, community and language, until: [...] we spoke our book of invasions – an unruly wash of Victorian pedantry, Cromwellian English, Scots, the jetsam and the beached bones of Irish – a grammarian's nightmare. (Cannon, 2007: 88)
‘[H]ushed and lulled full chimes for pushed and pulled’
The history of Northern Irish English is rather episodic because studies of written Ulster English tend to be case studies of particular writers, texts or text types, and only a small number of linguistic features have been examined. This chapter surveys work done on this variety of English based on literary and letter data, commentaries and folklore collections. There is a brief discussion of ways of systematically approaching texts and principl…
Views of general practitioners and benzodiazepine users on benzodiazepines
Innovation in language contact
The be after V-ing gram has been used in representations of Irish English since the seventeenth century. In early texts it often has future meanings that have been regarded as inauthentic because the Irish Gaelic construction that is the source of the gram is a perfect. This article accounts for the coexistence of future and perfect uses as an outcome of the interaction of two types of language transfer: the gram was ‘borrowed’ (‘pull transfer’) …
‘[T]hunder storms is verry dangese in this countrey they come in less than a minnits notice…’
It has been suggested that use of the Northern Subject Rule (NSR) in Southern Irish English (SIrE) is the result of diffusion from Ulster-Scots dialects of the North of Ireland, where many Scots settled in the 17th century. 19th-century Irish-Australian emigrant letters show the main NSR constraint — which permits plural verbal -s with noun phrase subjects but prohibits it with an adjacent third plural pronoun — to have been as robust in varietie…
The Northern Subject Rule in Ulster
In diffusionist accounts of the Northern Subject Rule (NSR), this subject–verb concord system spread from Scotland via Ulster to North America and elsewhere. Thus, the NSR in Mid-Ulster English dialects of districts originally settled from England is attributed to diffusion from Ulster-Scots. But the NSR was also a feature of dialects of the North and North Midlands, the regions that contributed most of the English settlers to the Ulster Plantati…
Shared accents, divided speech community? Change in Northern Ireland English
This article interrogates the line taken in studies of Northern Ireland English that Catholic/Protestant ethnicity is sociolinguistically irrelevant. Using data from Derry/Londonderry English, gathered with the objective of answering the question of whether ethnicity matters in sociolinguistic terms, it examines the relative importance of a set of social factors for language variation. The strength of these factors (ethnicity, class, sex, and age…
Barriers to Change
Work on Northern Hiberno-English (NHE) generally accepts a consensus view that plays down or overlooks interactions between ethnic division and language variation. A study of Derry/Londonderry English (DLE) indicates that, for a feature involved in ongoing change, ethnicity is a salient social factor. The (e) variable in the FACE-class is subject to change in which a distinction between "Standard" NHE [e] and vernacular [I] is giving way to a thr…
Shared accents, divided speech community? Change in Northern Ireland English
This article interrogates the line taken in studies of Northern Ireland English that Catholic/Protestant ethnicity is sociolinguistically irrelevant. Using data from Derry/Londonderry English, gathered with the objective of answering the question of whether ethnicity matters in sociolinguistic terms, it examines the relative importance of a set of social factors for language variation. The strength of these factors (ethnicity, class, sex, and age…
Views of general practitioners and benzodiazepine users on benzodiazepines
The Northern Subject Rule in Ulster
In diffusionist accounts of the Northern Subject Rule (NSR), this subject–verb concord system spread from Scotland via Ulster to North America and elsewhere. Thus, the NSR in Mid-Ulster English dialects of districts originally settled from England is attributed to diffusion from Ulster-Scots. But the NSR was also a feature of dialects of the North and North Midlands, the regions that contributed most of the English settlers to the Ulster Plantati…
I Dont Care One Cent What [Ø] Goying on in Great Britten
In the English-speaking world, be-deletion, or copula absence, is best known as a likely creole feature of African American English (AAE) and basilectal Caribbean Englishes. This historical case study examines Raymond Hickey’s contention that attestations of be-deletion in present-day Irish English (IrE) must lead to revision of accounts assuming that be-deletion does not and did not occur in the Englishes of Britain and Ireland. A survey of repo…
Barriers to Change
Work on Northern Hiberno-English (NHE) generally accepts a consensus view that plays down or overlooks interactions between ethnic division and language variation. A study of Derry/Londonderry English (DLE) indicates that, for a feature involved in ongoing change, ethnicity is a salient social factor. The (e) variable in the FACE-class is subject to change in which a distinction between "Standard" NHE [e] and vernacular [I] is giving way to a thr…
Shared accents, divided speech community? Change in Northern Ireland English
This article interrogates the line taken in studies of Northern Ireland English that Catholic/Protestant ethnicity is sociolinguistically irrelevant. Using data from Derry/Londonderry English, gathered with the objective of answering the question of whether ethnicity matters in sociolinguistic terms, it examines the relative importance of a set of social factors for language variation. The strength of these factors (ethnicity, class, sex, and age…
Barriers to Change
Work on Northern Hiberno-English (NHE) generally accepts a consensus view that plays down or overlooks interactions between ethnic division and language variation. A study of Derry/Londonderry English (DLE) indicates that, for a feature involved in ongoing change, ethnicity is a salient social factor. The (e) variable in the FACE-class is subject to change in which a distinction between "Standard" NHE [e] and vernacular [I] is giving way to a thr…
The Northern Subject Rule in Ulster
In diffusionist accounts of the Northern Subject Rule (NSR), this subject–verb concord system spread from Scotland via Ulster to North America and elsewhere. Thus, the NSR in Mid-Ulster English dialects of districts originally settled from England is attributed to diffusion from Ulster-Scots. But the NSR was also a feature of dialects of the North and North Midlands, the regions that contributed most of the English settlers to the Ulster Plantati…
Innovation in language contact
The be after V-ing gram has been used in representations of Irish English since the seventeenth century. In early texts it often has future meanings that have been regarded as inauthentic because the Irish Gaelic construction that is the source of the gram is a perfect. This article accounts for the coexistence of future and perfect uses as an outcome of the interaction of two types of language transfer: the gram was ‘borrowed’ (‘pull transfer’) …
‘[T]hunder storms is verry dangese in this countrey they come in less than a minnits notice…’
It has been suggested that use of the Northern Subject Rule (NSR) in Southern Irish English (SIrE) is the result of diffusion from Ulster-Scots dialects of the North of Ireland, where many Scots settled in the 17th century. 19th-century Irish-Australian emigrant letters show the main NSR constraint — which permits plural verbal -s with noun phrase subjects but prohibits it with an adjacent third plural pronoun — to have been as robust in varietie…
Views of general practitioners and benzodiazepine users on benzodiazepines
‘[H]ushed and lulled full chimes for pushed and pulled’
The history of Northern Irish English is rather episodic because studies of written Ulster English tend to be case studies of particular writers, texts or text types, and only a small number of linguistic features have been examined. This chapter surveys work done on this variety of English based on literary and letter data, commentaries and folklore collections. There is a brief discussion of ways of systematically approaching texts and principl…
Victories fastened in grammar
In ‘Murdering the language’ Moya Cannon imagines Ireland as a shore washed over by human tides. Each invasion added fresh layers to landscape, community and language, until: [...] we spoke our book of invasions – an unruly wash of Victorian pedantry, Cromwellian English, Scots, the jetsam and the beached bones of Irish – a grammarian's nightmare. (Cannon, 2007: 88)
Fictionalising orality
Fictional texts display traces of orality to a greater or lesser extent. As argued in a great deal of scholarly work on stylistics, whatever the precise characteristics of the textual representation of orality may be, for interactive talk in fiction to be understood, it must be interpretable in terms of the same rules of discourse that govern everyday verbal interaction. That is not to say that fictional dialogue is in any sense the same as real …
I Dont Care One Cent What [Ø] Goying on in Great Britten
In the English-speaking world, be-deletion, or copula absence, is best known as a likely creole feature of African American English (AAE) and basilectal Caribbean Englishes. This historical case study examines Raymond Hickey’s contention that attestations of be-deletion in present-day Irish English (IrE) must lead to revision of accounts assuming that be-deletion does not and did not occur in the Englishes of Britain and Ireland. A survey of repo…
Wolf, Nicholas M
Irish English in emigrant letters
The language of letters, especially from lower social strata, may provide some of the best data available for pre‐twentieth‐century language history from below, because it may accurately represent features of spoken language. To illustrate how much variation – and examples of ‘non‐standard’/vernacular usage – may be extracted from letters, this study reports on a survey of citations in an early historical study of Irish emigration based on letter…
Development and validation of the Asian American Women’s Shifting Scale (AsAWSS)
The present research developed and validated an instrument to measure shifting or self-altering presentation strategies among Asian American women. A 12-item instrument was developed to measure components of shifting phenomena based in part on literature review, focus group feedback, and an assessment from cultural experts. The initial validation study, using principal axis factor analysis with a promax rotation, was conducted with a national sam…
Shifting mediates the relationship between ethnic identity, acculturation status, and racism-related stress among Asian American women
Linguistics (11 works) · History (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 works) · Irish (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (5 works) · Literature (5 works)