By J. Keating-Miller
Ireland's heritage of contested language platforms has continuously been associated with its political realities; Language, id and Liberation attends to a stream of up to date Irish writing that considers the importance of the region's tumultuous cultural, social and political historical past in portrayals of latest Ireland's lifestyle and speech.
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In these instances, Deane chooses to employ “the” rather than “her” to refer to the sibling’s relationship which, according to Filppula, is indicative of the influence of Irish (the substratum) on the contact language, Irish-English. He writes, From the earliest writers like Joyce, the Irish substratum is the selfevident source for the peculiarities of HE article usage, as can be seen from the following statement: In Irish there is only one article, an, which is equivalent to the English definite article the.
Responses to Yes/No questions form a potentially interesting area because Irish has no exact equivalents of the affirmative and negative particles yes and no. Indeed, there are observations in the literature on HE usages which are said to reflect the Irish system to a certain extent. Thus, Hayden and Hartog (1909: 934–5) claim that the ‘Irish use of the particles “Yes” and “No” very sparingly, and even then add a short sentence of affirmation or denial’ . . Another early writer commenting on HE usage in responses is Joyce (1910/1988: 130), who, however, gives a slightly different description: for him, the special nature of HE responses manifests itself in the ‘redundant’ use of full statements besides the yes or no indicating the polar choice .
Och ay, so it is. 3 The boys’ amusement at such language use indicates generational gaps, which translate into access to formal education, experience, and therefore language usage. Although the boys’ family and Ena’s funeral guests are presumably from comparable socioeconomic backgrounds, the narrator and his brothers are afforded access to public education and are encouraged to pursue such opportunities, which may have been unavailable to this cluster of men. In the remainder of the exchange, elements specific to Irish-English emerge, from the forms of questions and responses to the use of the English article, the.