Irish-english code-switching: A sociolinguistic perspective

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Irish is a minority language in a contact situation with a major world language, and language contact phenomena have been a feature of Irish for hundreds of years. Code-switching (CS) is the most visible and marked of language contact features and it forms part of the active linguistic repertoire of most speakers of Irish. It has been under-represented in Irish language corpora and in linguistic and dialectological description and analysis of Irish. Irish-English CS follows international trends in being perceived as aberrant and thereby generally stigmatised by the speech community.1.

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Laoire, S. N. (2016). Irish-english code-switching: A sociolinguistic perspective. In Sociolinguistics in Ireland (pp. 81–106). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137453471_4

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