Irish Traveller Language

Maria Rieder is Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research is focused on discursive constructions of social and economic inequality. She has published on issues of minority communities and languages, economic discourse in the press, social movements and intercultural communication, specifically focusing on the role of language in the production of power differences and social conflict.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Setting the Scene.- Chapter 2: Traveller Culture in Transition.- Chapter 3: When is it Used? – The Role of Cant within Traveller Culture.- Chapter 4: What is it Called? – Naming Practices and Folk Classifications of Cant.- Chapter 5: Folk Views on the Structure and Formation of Cant.- Chapter 6: Language Ideology and Traveller Identity.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.