Emma Moreton
Biographic Data
| ID | 790717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Moreton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Moreton |
| SIGNATURE | MORETON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coventry University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4182-4586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The language of alcohol
Finding home in Irish and German migrant letters
How migrants navigate their sense of home between the place left behind and the new place of destination is a crucial question. The social scientific perspective has increasingly come to emphasize the multiplicity of home and appreciates that home provides a bridge between “here” and “there.” In this article we explore how notions of home compare between migrants who arrived in the US throughout the 19 th and 20 th century. We can draw on a uniqu…
The Migrant Letter Digitised
Within the digital humanities, social network analysis - using digital technologiesto examine the relationship between people, places and things - has explored awide range of digital communication formats, from emails to tweets. This hasbeen made possible because of the large amount of online digital data and hasspawned many new techniques specifically aimed at analysing very large datasets,often termed Big Data
I never could forget my darling mother’
The post-famine period from the 1850s to the 1920s was a time that saw a significant\nincrease in female migration from Ireland to North America. Economic changes in\nIreland, including declining wage-earning capabilities due to the de-industrialisation\nof the Irish countryside, as well as changes in inheritance practices from partible to\nimpartible inheritance systems, led to changes in marriage trends. In short, women\nmarried ‘less frequentl…
I hope you will write”
This paper examines the use of the pattern Pronoun + Verb + Pronoun (as in I hope you , you think I and she knows he ) in a corpus of nineteenth-century Irish emigrant correspondence. The corpus contains 88 letters by four sisters (the Lough sisters), who emigrated from Ireland to America in the 1870s and 1880s. The study aims to investigate how these clauses — described as projection structures — function and how they contribute to the interacti…
Visualising the Emigrant Letter
Emigrant letters are a rich resource for teaching and learning, transcending disciplinary and methodological boundaries. They are expressive and indicative of correspondents’ identities, values, preoccupations and beliefs, providing a powerful source of information about migration issues and shedding light on processes of language change and variation. Although many emigrant letter collections have now been digitised, not all are properly archive…
Profiling the Female Emigrant
in understanding large categorical social groups -social classes, ethnic groups, religious denominations, and men and women' they have sometimes failed to understand 'the individual self, in relation to other individual selves, [in relation] to the world'. 4 Gerber's own study of British emigrants in America takes an approach that begins with the individual. Viewing the personal letter as an object of study in its own right, Gerber examines how s…
Profiling the Female Emigrant
in understanding large categorical social groups -social classes, ethnic groups, religious denominations, and men and women' they have sometimes failed to understand 'the individual self, in relation to other individual selves, [in relation] to the world'. 4 Gerber's own study of British emigrants in America takes an approach that begins with the individual. Viewing the personal letter as an object of study in its own right, Gerber examines how s…
I never could forget my darling mother’
The post-famine period from the 1850s to the 1920s was a time that saw a significant\nincrease in female migration from Ireland to North America. Economic changes in\nIreland, including declining wage-earning capabilities due to the de-industrialisation\nof the Irish countryside, as well as changes in inheritance practices from partible to\nimpartible inheritance systems, led to changes in marriage trends. In short, women\nmarried ‘less frequentl…
I hope you will write”
This paper examines the use of the pattern Pronoun + Verb + Pronoun (as in I hope you , you think I and she knows he ) in a corpus of nineteenth-century Irish emigrant correspondence. The corpus contains 88 letters by four sisters (the Lough sisters), who emigrated from Ireland to America in the 1870s and 1880s. The study aims to investigate how these clauses — described as projection structures — function and how they contribute to the interacti…
Visualising the Emigrant Letter
Emigrant letters are a rich resource for teaching and learning, transcending disciplinary and methodological boundaries. They are expressive and indicative of correspondents’ identities, values, preoccupations and beliefs, providing a powerful source of information about migration issues and shedding light on processes of language change and variation. Although many emigrant letter collections have now been digitised, not all are properly archive…
Profiling the Female Emigrant
in understanding large categorical social groups -social classes, ethnic groups, religious denominations, and men and women' they have sometimes failed to understand 'the individual self, in relation to other individual selves, [in relation] to the world'. 4 Gerber's own study of British emigrants in America takes an approach that begins with the individual. Viewing the personal letter as an object of study in its own right, Gerber examines how s…
Visualising the Emigrant Letter
Emigrant letters are a rich resource for teaching and learning, transcending disciplinary and methodological boundaries. They are expressive and indicative of correspondents’ identities, values, preoccupations and beliefs, providing a powerful source of information about migration issues and shedding light on processes of language change and variation. Although many emigrant letter collections have now been digitised, not all are properly archive…
I hope you will write”
This paper examines the use of the pattern Pronoun + Verb + Pronoun (as in I hope you , you think I and she knows he ) in a corpus of nineteenth-century Irish emigrant correspondence. The corpus contains 88 letters by four sisters (the Lough sisters), who emigrated from Ireland to America in the 1870s and 1880s. The study aims to investigate how these clauses — described as projection structures — function and how they contribute to the interacti…
I never could forget my darling mother’
The post-famine period from the 1850s to the 1920s was a time that saw a significant\nincrease in female migration from Ireland to North America. Economic changes in\nIreland, including declining wage-earning capabilities due to the de-industrialisation\nof the Irish countryside, as well as changes in inheritance practices from partible to\nimpartible inheritance systems, led to changes in marriage trends. In short, women\nmarried ‘less frequentl…
The Migrant Letter Digitised
Within the digital humanities, social network analysis - using digital technologiesto examine the relationship between people, places and things - has explored awide range of digital communication formats, from emails to tweets. This hasbeen made possible because of the large amount of online digital data and hasspawned many new techniques specifically aimed at analysing very large datasets,often termed Big Data
The language of alcohol
Finding home in Irish and German migrant letters
How migrants navigate their sense of home between the place left behind and the new place of destination is a crucial question. The social scientific perspective has increasingly come to emphasize the multiplicity of home and appreciates that home provides a bridge between “here” and “there.” In this article we explore how notions of home compare between migrants who arrived in the US throughout the 19 th and 20 th century. We can draw on a uniqu…
Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Irish (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (2 works)