Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Conquest, colonial ideologies and the consequences for language -- THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- IDEOLOGIES OF CONQUEST -- THE PLACE OF LANGUAGE IN IDEOLOGIES OF CONQUEST: THE SPANISH MODEL -- Pronunciation / phonetics -- Semantic adequacy -- Grammar -- Cognitive range -- Writing -- Genealogy -- CHAPTER 2 'A bad dream with no sound': the representation of Irish in the texts of the Elizabethan conquest -- THE LINGUISTIC DEMOGRAPHY OF ELIZABETHAN IRELAND -- A 'DISCOURSE OF SAMENESS' AND THE ELISION OF IRISH -- NARRATIVE STRATEGIES OCCLUDING IRISH -- Unacknowledged translation -- Ventriloquism -- Rendering speech as spectacle -- CHAPTER 3 'Wilde Speech': Elizabethan evaluations of Irish -- ENGLISHMEN'S KNOWLEDGE OF IRISH -- JUDGEMENTS FROM IGNORANCE -- RECONSTRUCTING THE ELIZABETHANS' EVALUATIONS OF IRISH -- Phonetics -- Lexicon -- Cognitive range -- Writing -- Genealogy -- CHAPTER 4 'Translating this kingdom of the new': English linguistic nationalism and anglicisation policy in Ireland -- THE NEWCOMERS' ATTITUDES TO ENGLISH -- Linguistic nationalism -- Civil Conversation -- ELIZABETHAN LANGUAGE POLICY IN IRELAND -- Language and violence -- ANGLICANISM AND ANGLICISATION -- Enacting linguistic colonisation -- Anglicising the elite -- CHAPTER 5 New world, new incomprehension: patterns of change and continuity in the English encounter with native languages… -- CHAPTER 6 The clamorous silence -- INTIMATIONS OF SILENCE -- ENGAGEMENT -- Irish-language resistance -- CONTRAPUNTAL POLYPHONIES -- Talking across the language divide: interpreters -- CONTESTATION AND THE ORIGINS OF A CONFLICTUAL DIALOGUE -- Conclusion -- Glossary: the colonial wordlist -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION.

1 CONQUEST, COLONIAL IDEOLOGIES AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR LANGUAGE -- 2 'A BAD DREAM WITH NO SOUND': THE REPRESENTATION OF IRISH IN THE TEXTS OF THE ELIZABETHAN CONQUEST -- 3 'WILDE SPEECH': ELIZABETHAN EVALUATIONS OF IRISH -- 4 'TRANSLATING THIS KINGDOM OF THE NEW': ENGLISH LINGUISTIC NATIONALISM AND ANGLICISATION POLICY IN IRELAND -- 5 NEW WORLD, NEW INCOMPREHENSION: PATTERNS OF CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN THE ENGLISH ENCOUNTER WITH NATIVE LANGUAGES FROM… -- 6 THE CLAMOROUS SILENCE -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index.