Fictionalising orality: introduction

Author Biographies

• Carolina P. Amador, University of Extremadura
  Carolina P. Amador Moreno is a Lecturer in English and Assistant dean of International Relations at the University of Extremadura. After completing her PhD in English, she joined the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Limerick, where she taught for three years. She was also a lecturer in the English Department at University College Dublin from 2006 to 2007. Her research interests centre on the English spoken in Ireland and include sociolinguistics, stylistics, language contact, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and pragmatics. She is the author of An introduction to Irish English. London: Equinox (2010) and The use of Hiberno-English in Patrick MacGill’s early novels: bilingualism and language shift from Irish to English in County Donegal. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press (2006).
• Kevin McCafferty, University of Bergen
  Kevin McCafferty is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergen. He has previously held posts at the universities of Basel, York and Tromsø, and was for a time Head of Tromsø University Library’s Section for Humanities, Social Sciences and Law. His doctorate from the University of Tromsø was awarded for a sociolinguistic study of (London)Derry English, since published as Ethnicity and language change: English in (London)Derry, Northern Ireland (John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2001). Other publications include articles on sociolinguistic and historical aspects of Irish English in the journals Language Variation and Change, Ulster Folklife, English World-Wide, Diachronica, Language and Literature, and English Today. He has also contributed to a number of books, including: Urban voices: accent studies in the British Isles (eds P. Foulkes and G. Docherty, Edward Arnold, London, 1999), Language in the British Isles (ed. D. Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2007), The representation of the spoken mode in fiction: how authors write how people talk (eds C. P. Amador Moreno and A. Nunes, Edwin Mellen, New York, 2009), and Varieties in writing: the written word as linguistic evidence (ed. R. Hickey, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2010).