Browsing by Subject "Corpus linguistics"
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Analyzing university spoken interaction: a corpus linguistics/conversation analysis approach
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2011)In this article, we consider how corpus linguistics (CL) and conversation analysis (CA) can be used together to provide enhanced descriptions of spoken interaction in the context of small group teaching in higher education. ... -
Anything but the ideal speaker listener in anything but a homogenous speech community: a study of communication through the medium of lingua franca English
(2024-09-09)This thesis characterizes the English spoken as a lingua franca by a community of asylum seekers, none of whom spoke English as a native language, and it examines how they use this lingua franca to interact with the ... -
Applying corpus linguistics and conversation analysis in the investigation of small group teaching in higher education (Pre-published version)
(de Gruyter, 2012)In this paper, we consider how a combined corpus linguistics and conversation analysis methodology can reveal new insights into the relationship between interaction patterns, language use, and learning. The context of the ... -
Céad mίle fáilte: a corpus-based study of the development of a community of practice within the Irish hotel management training sector
(2022-04-05)This thesis examines the discourse of a unique third-level academic institution in order to identify the variety of linguistic features, which align it, first of all, to the higher education sector in general, but more ... -
Communities of (mal)practice? Exploring the interface of corpus linguistics and social theory
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A corpus-based comparative pragmatic analysis of Irish English and Canadian English
(2022-04-06)This PhD thesis is a comparative study of the spoken grammar of Irish and Canadian Englishes within the framework of Variational Pragmatics at the formal level, used to study the pragmatic variation (the intra-varietal ... -
Data-driven learning: a call for a broader research gaze
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-04)Over the last three decades, data-driven learning (DDL) has been widely championed by those of us who see the exciting opportunities that it can bring to the language learner. From the initial days of DDL, there has been ... -
The impact of usage-based approaches on second language learning and teaching
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-09)The application of usage-based models of language learning began to gain ground in the early twenty-first century, particularly in the field of first language acquisition, and, more recently, are gaining traction in second ... -
Introduction: Corpus Pragmatics (Pre-published version)
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Introduction: Corpus Pragmatics (Pre-published version)
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Investigating higher education seminar talk
(Novitas-ROYAL, 2010)In this paper, we consider how a combined corpus linguistics and conversation analysis methodology can reveal new insights into the relationship between interaction patterns, language use, and learning. The context of ... -
The pragmatics of the be + after + V-ing construction in Irish English (Pre-published version)
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2009)This paper looks at a well-documented form in Irish English, ‘be after + Verb-ing’ (e.g. ‘He's after forgetting to pay her’) which roughly equates to the present perfect aspect in Standard English. The structure, a calque ... -
'Take him to the cleaners and make him do your homework': a corpus-based analysis of lexical structure used by English language learners
(2020-12-16)The present study is an empirical corpus based analysis of the use of four lexical bundles or strings by ESL students at a higher education centre in Ireland. The overall aim was to ascertain if students at both ends ... -
Teacher talk at three stages of English language teacher career development: a corpus-aided study
(2021-03-30)Classroom discourse (CD) and teacher talk (TT) have received much attention over the years across a range of research perspectives, from qualitative case studies of individual teacher narratives to large-scale quantitative ...