They do be anxious about their speech: Performance and Perceptions of Authenticity in Irish-Newfoundland English

• Main Author: Collins, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The English Languages: History, Diaspora, Culture 2012
• Subjects: Newfoundland; dialect; Newfoundland English; Ireland; Irish; Canada; Canadian English; British English; West Country; Catholic; Protestant; sectarianism; nationalism; diglossia; covert prestige; overt prestige; Republic of Doyle; lexicography; indexing; Doyle
• Online Access: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/elhdc/article/view/17058

Newfoundland English presents current speakers with a dilemma. Canadian English functions as a prestige dialect, but Newfoundland English's 'considerable range of linguistic variation' (Clarke 2010, 16) makes covert/overt or standard/non-standard binaries unstable. Newfoundland's...