Browsing English Language and Literature (Peer-reviewed publications) by Title
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‘Both more than a language and no more of a language’: Michael Hartnett and the Politics of Translation.
(Four Courts Press, 2003)This essay looks at the politics of translation through a specific focus on the poetry, in Irish and in English, of Michael Hartnett. It suggests a politics of translation that is emancipatory and creative, and deconstructs ... -
Building a corpus to represent a variety of a language (Pre-published version)
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C.S. Lewis: An Irish Writer (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2010-02-10)This article examines the effect of C.S. Lewis's Irish background on his work. It attempts to contradict the assumption that this Belfast-born writer should be included in the English and not the Irish canon. It emphasises ... -
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 ... -
‘Can excrement be art … if not, why not’?: Joyce’s aesthetic theory and the flux of consciousness (Pre-print version)
(Cork University Press, 2014) -
A case study in language teacher education (Pre-published version)
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Competencies explored and exposed: Grammar, lexis, communication and the notion of levels
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Complementary perspectives on hedging behaviour in family discourse: The analytical synergy of variational pragmatics and corpus linguistics (Pre-published version)
(John Benjamins, 2011)This paper argues that corpus linguistics offers a methodology which benefits variational pragmatic analysis in a number of ways. Corpus linguistic tools such as word frequency lists allow the researcher to construct a ... -
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 ... -
Connecting Bits and Pieces- Seamus Heaney: Electric Light
(Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 2002)This review essay examines the recurrence of different themes in Seamus Heaney’s Collection Electric Light. It retraces influence of T.S. Eliot in the book and also the ongoing preoccupation with classical references. The ... -
Connecting voices: an introduction to Irish women writers' collaborations and networks, 1880–1940 (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2023-07)Collaborations and networks are both the modus operandi and focus of investigation in this Special Issue on Irish women writers between 1880 and 1940. This introductory essay sets the scene for the discussions and ... -
Corpora and Media Studies (Pre-published version)
(Continuum, 2012)Traditionally, studies in media discourse have been divided into those that focus on spoken media (mostly radio genres) and those that focus on written media (mostly newspapers). Studies into spoken media discourse were ... -
Corpora and the study of spoken language (Pre-published version)
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2008)Spoken corpora have evolved over the 40 last four decades from early attempts at corpus-building for the purposes of better understanding such phenomena as first-language acquisition, social variation and conversational ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Crediting the Poet: What Seamus Heaney Means to Me”
(The Online Journal of the Southern Chapter of the American Conference for Irish Studies, 2014) -
Crocodiles and obelisks: the literary afterlife of Roger Casement in the work of Jamie McKendrick and W.G. Sebald (Pre-published version)
(University of Notre Dame, 2016)