This volume explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. It traces how understandings of literacy and language shaped national and transnational discourses of cultural identity, and the different reading communities produced by questions of language, religion, status, education and audience.

This book offers a detailed account of the success of young immersion learners of Irish in becoming competent speakers of the minority language. The results highlight the limitations of an immersion system and will help immersion educators to gain a greater understanding of how young immersion learners learn and acquire the target language.

This innovative and lavishly illustrated collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. From papyrus fragments to Asterix cartoons, it explores how ideas have travelled via the medium of translation.

This book examines aspects of Celtic linguistics, including Irish initial mutations from a linguistic universal and contrastive perspective. It also analyses deverbal adjectives and assertive and declarative speech acts in Irish, and communication, language transmission, language change and language policy in Irish, Welsh, Breton and Sorbian.

This highly accessible guidebook outlines the practical steps and ethical guidelines entailed when gathering linguistic data from social media sites and platforms. This timely book is an essential guide for students of English language and linguistics, media and communication studies.

This highly accessible guidebook outlines the practical steps and ethical guidelines entailed when gathering linguistic data from social media sites and platforms. This timely book is an essential guide for students of English language and linguistics, media and communication studies.