Irish English. The Influence of Irish on the English Spoken in Ireland 12+

🔖 Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 2,3, RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Anglistik: Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft), course: Variety in English, language: English, abstract: Loreto Todd states in his book "Green English" one very important sentence concerning English in Ireland that depicts the basis on which this term paper is built upon: "The language spoken in Ireland is similar to the language spoken in England - similar but by no means identical". This term paper will deal with the kind of English spoken in Ireland today1 and how it differs from English spoken in England or America2, especially taking the influence of the native language of Ireland into account. Because of the space limitations, it will only serve as an overview covering the most important grammatical features in which Irish English (IrE) differs from Standard English (StE), for instance phenomena concerning phonetics, word stress, rhythmic retentions, syntax and semantics. Concerning each field of study some striking features of IrE will be described and explained by the use of examples. It will be of special interest to what extent the differences date back to the influence of the Irish mother tongue Gaelic3. Since English is a relatively new language in Ireland, it will be the aim of this paper to find out if today's linguistic phenomena of IrE can be traced back to the period of the language shift from Irish...