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Holding on to ‘rites, rhythms and rituals’: Mike McCormack’s homage to small town Irish life and death (Pre published)
(Springer Nature, 2018-07-31)
The Goldsmith Award-winning Solar Bones is a novel focused on, and dedicated to, loss. As Marcus Conway comes to terms with his own death, he pays homage to the “rites, rhythms and rituals” that were part of his life in ...
Content and Language Integrated Learning in Italian upper secondary schools – A Case Study
(2018-02-07)
The term ‘Content and Language Integrated Learning’ (CLIL) was coined in the mid-1990’s to describe and enhance practices in content-based language learning (Coyle, Hood, & Marsh, 2010). The rapid integration of Europe ...
A personalised exercise programme for individuals with lower limb amputation reduces falls and improves gait biomechanics: A block randomised controlled trial (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2018)
Background: Lower limb amputees (LLAs) are at increased risk of falling due to the inherent asymmetry resulting from their limb loss, muscle weakness and other neuro-musculoskeletal limitations. Research question: The aim ...
Corpus-based function-to-form approaches (Pre-published version)
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2018)
This chapter sets out to explore the options for function-to-form research in the context of corpus pragmatics. Corpus-based function-to-form research approaches are used in pragmatics research to explore speech acts and ...
The grammars of English (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2018)
Introduction: Corpus Pragmatics (Pre-published version)
(Springer Verlag, 2018)
Conflict in corpora: Investigating family conflict sequences using a corpus pragmatic approach (Pre-published version)
(John Benjamins, 2018)
The analysis of conflict in family discourse has often been characterised by ethnographic approaches and/or fine-grained analysis of unique conflict episodes. This article, by contrast, uses a c.175,000-word spoken corpus ...
Virgilian hauntings in the later poetry of Seamus Heaney
(AEDEI [Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses], 2018)
This article examines the influence of Virgil upon the poetry of Seamus Heaney through the theoretical lens of Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx. The paper argues that the present and future are influenced by spectres of ...
“Only connect”: Irish women’s voices, Latin America & the Irish women’s writing network
(The Society for Irish Latin American Studies, 2018)
This essay offers a preliminary sketch of the recent critical attention given to Irish women and the literary interfaces between
Ireland and Latin America (e.g. travel writers, immigrant or diasporic writers, and those ...
Migrancy in Medieval Ireland: Merchants, monks, miscreants and mercenaries
(UCC [University College Cork], 2018)