Background
McCafferty, Kevin was born on November 5, 1961 in Derry, Northern Ireland. Son of George and May McCafferty.
(Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this book takes ...)
Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this book takes up the neglected question of how ethnic division interacts with variation and change in Northern Irish English. It identifies an idealised folk model of harmonious communities, in spite of the social divide and open conflict that have long affected the region; this model affects daily life and sociolinguistic studies alike. A reading of sociolinguistic studies from the region reveals ethnolinguistic differentiation. Qualitative analysis of material from (London)Derry shows people often stressing tolerance in their community, while accounts of their activities contain evidence of ethnic division and strife. Quantitative analysis charts six changes in (London)Derry English. Variation correlates to varying degrees with age, ethnicity, class, sex and social network. The ethnic dimension, while not the most important parameter in all cases, plays a role in relation to all the changes examined.
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McCafferty, Kevin was born on November 5, 1961 in Derry, Northern Ireland. Son of George and May McCafferty.
Bachelor with honors, University East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1983. Master of Arts, University East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy, University Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, 1997.
Lecturer University Basle, Switzerland, 1987—1991, University York, England, 1992—1993. Doctoral research fellow University Tromsø, Norway, 1993—1997, senior lecturer, 1997—1998, post-doctoral research fellow, 2000—2003. Head section humanities, social science and law University Tromsø Library., 2003—2005.
Senior lecturer University Bergen, since 2005, professor, since 2006. Freelance translator, Norway, since 1986.
(Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this book takes ...)
Married Anniken Telnes Iversen, September 21, 1999. 1 child Liam Simon Iversen.