Browsing English Language and Literature (Peer-reviewed publications) by Title
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A Vagabond's Scrutiny: Hannah Lynch in Europe
(Peter Lang Ltd,International Academic Publishers, 2011) -
Vague language
(Cambridge University Press, 2015) -
Versions and Palimpsests: Rebecca West’s The Sentinel, Adela, and The Judge
(University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses, 2006) -
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 ... -
Visioning Ireland: Pearse, prosopopoeia and the remembering of O'Donovan Rossa and Tone
(Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies, 2014) -
Vocabulary instruction (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) -
War of the words: literary rebellion in France and Ireland (Pre-published version)
(T.I.R. [Université Rennes 2], 2010) -
‘What ish my nation?’: Towards a Negative Definition of Identity
(Minerva, 1999)This chapter examines Derrida’s distinction between law and justice, looking at the heritage of Pascal and Montaigne and examining issues of ethical and political responsibility in the process, taking some examples from ... -
What's in a name? - vocatives in casual conversations and radio phone-in calls
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003)This paper looks at the use of vocatives across two corpora: the 5-million word Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) and a 55,000-word corpus of radio phone-in calls. 100 vocatives are sampled ... -
'When it’s there I am, it’s here I want to be': the construction of Connemara
(Carysfort Press, 2006) -
Winterwood: A Portrait of the Artist as a Postmodern Pariah
(Peter Lang, 2008)Postmodernism is often seen as following sequentially from modernism but I would agree with Lyotard’s contention that postmodernism is actually ‘a part of the modern.’ Lyotard goes on to state that a work ‘can become modern ... -
Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: An intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction
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‘You’ve a daughter yourself?’: a corpus-based look at lexico-grammatical choices and pragmatic effects in question forms in an Irish radio phone-in (Pre-published version)
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2005)Questions are widely studied especially in institutional contexts where a pervasion of questions is characteristic of such genres, for example political interviews, doctor-patient exchanges, courtroom interactions, and ...