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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 ...
Introduction: From prosperity to austerity: a socio-cultural critique of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath (Pre-published version)
(Manchester University Press, 2014)
“The door” stands open: liminal spaces in the later Heaney (Pre-print version)
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2016)
Ecocriticism
(The English Association, 2016)
The pragmatics of interlanguage
(ediPUCRS, 2017)
Research in pragmatics has evolved from its beginnings with different theoretical focuses, interfacing with cognition, communication and formal grammar, and thus making its definition quite difficult. Kasper (1996) defines ...
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 ...
Learning to thole: the unconscious connections between Ireland and Scotland in the thought of Seamus Heaney (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2013)
“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 ...