Browsing by Subject "English"
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Can English provide a framework for Spanish response tokens? (Pre-published version)
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2013)This paper investigates the question of whether response items in Spanish can be analysed using frameworks developed for the study of similar items in English. Data comes from the Spanish corpus COREC, the Corpus Oral de ... -
Competencies explored and exposed: Grammar, lexis, communication and the notion of levels
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The concept of shared reading
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Corpus analysis (Pre-published version)
(John Wiley & Sons, 2015)Large and small language text corpora have become quite ubiquitous in the broad fields that make up the study of language and social interaction. This entry provides an introduction to the concept of the “corpus” where ... -
A corpus of Irish English – Past, present, future
(Irish Association for applied Linguistics, 1999)To date, no corpus of Irish English exists. Most previous research has focused on the syntactic and phonological peculiarities of Irish English showing how it differs from standard British English, and in the same way, ... -
Feeding back feedback – Towards a cyclical model for learner support
(Ireland Aid and Centre for Educational Disadvantage Research, 2003) -
From language as system to language as discourse (Pre-published version)
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The grammars of English (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2018) -
A historical analysis of senior cycle state examinations in the school subject English from 1878-2016: a longitudinal study
(2021-05-04)This thesis critically examines senior cycle examination in Ireland for the school subject English from colonial to modern times. It explores the development of examinations as a method of senior cycle assessment and, in ... -
Introduction: Corpus Pragmatics (Pre-published version)
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Introduction: Corpus Pragmatics (Pre-published version)
(Springer Verlag, 2017) -
Jacques Lacan (Pre-published version)
(Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, 2017)Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was born on April 13, 1901 and died on September 9 1981. He was a French psychoanalyst and philosopher and was a very controversial figure on the French psychoanalytic scene. He was a polymathic ... -
The Limerick corpus of Irish English: design, description and application
(Irish Association for applied Linguistics, 2004)This paper describes an on-going corpus development and application project at the Mary Immaculate College and the University of Limerick, Ireland. The Limerick Corpus of Irish English is a one-million word corpus of ... -
Looking out for love and all the rest of it: vague category markers as shared social space (Pre-published version)
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Post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on so forth’ – vague language in academic discourse, a comparative analysis of form, function and context (Pre-published version)
(John Benjamins, 2008)The use of vague language is one of the most common features of everyday spoken English. Speakers regularly use vague expressions to project shared knowledge (e.g., pens, books, and that sort of thing) as well as to make ... -
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 ... -
Spoken grammar (Pre-published version)
(National Geographic / Cenage, 2014) -
Teaching and Irish English
(Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Journals, 2011) -
Time, space and presences: Bangladeshi girls' friendships in an English primary school
(Social Care Ireland, 2000)The study reported here examined what it is like to be and have friends and how developing conceptions of friendships become embedded in children's peer cultures. It took place in two mixed Year 5 and Year 6 classes in a ... -
Undergraduate academic writing: an analysis of errors and weaknesses in syntax, lexis, style and structure
(Dublin: Reading Association of Ireland, 2000)