Journal article
The attitudes of recently-arrived Polish migrants to Irish English
Chloe Diskin, Vera Regan
World Englishes: journal of English as an international and intranational language | Wiley | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.1111/weng.12253
Abstract
This article presents a case study of six Polish migrants residing in Dublin, Ireland and examines their language ideologies through an analysis of the metalinguistic discourse surrounding Irish English, world Englishes, and notions of ‘standardness’ that arose in the course of six extended interviews in 2012. Adapting Bucholtz and Hall's concept of markedness or ‘hierarchical structuring of difference’, this study structures the migrants’ views towards world Englishes as operating along two axes of markedness and desirability. Overall, the migrants exhibit three broadly differing views of Irish English: positive, negative and ambivalent, and at times explicitly articulate their views in com..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The research presented in this article was made possible by a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship awarded to the first author from the Irish Research Council.