Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 An introduction to sociopragmatic variation -- Part 1: Investigating sociolinguistic variables -- 2 The sociopragmatics of now in corpora of Irish English and Scottish English -- 3 Lookit - the story of a pragmatic marker in Irish English -- 4 'Er, yeah, no, bummer': An exploration of the 'new' discourse pragmatic marker Yeah, No in contemporary Irish English fiction -- 5 New speakers of Irish English: Pragmatic and sociophonetic perspectives -- 6 Pragmatic markers in Ulster Irish and Irish English -- 7 Boring much? Semantic determinants of constructional attraction in Irish English -- Part 2: Metapragmatic structures: Identities, styles, and media -- 8 'Oh wait and I tell you . . .': Narratives, pragmatics, and style in ICE-Ireland -- 9 Irish identities in a fictional TV series: Mediatised performance of Derry English in Derry Girls -- 10 Salutation and leavetaking formulae in 18th-century varieties of English -- 11 Automatically detecting directives with SPICE Ireland -- 12 Concluding remarks and future directions in studies on sociopragmatic variation -- Index