Browsing Department of English Language and Literature by Title
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Undergraduate academic writing: an analysis of errors and weaknesses in syntax, lexis, style and structure
(Dublin: Reading Association of Ireland, 2000) -
The Untold story of the monster: a psychoanalytic analysis of the monster through the anamorphic lens
(2020-02-04)Research identifies the perception of evil as a mechanism to segregate people from inhuman and monstrous transgressors. Luke Russell defines that ‘the evil of the agent is supposed to provide a complete explanation of the ... -
Using a corpus to enhance pragmatic awareness (Pre-published version)
(Perifèric, 2012) -
Using a corpus to look at variational pragmatics: response tokens in British and Irish discourse
(Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008) -
Using corpus approaches in English language teacher education (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2019)The aim of this chapter is to explore the ways in which corpus linguistics (CL) can facilitate teacher development in terms of content, pedagogy, technology, and research. Based on our own and other reported experiences ... -
Using language corpora in initial teacher education: pedagogic issues and practical applications (Re-printed version)
(TESOL, 2003)Recent years have seen a vast increase in the amount of materials such as dictionaries and grammars which are ‘corpus-based’ and it is difficult to dispute the contribution of corpus linguistics to English language ... -
A Vagabond's Scrutiny: Hannah Lynch in Europe
(Peter Lang Ltd,International Academic Publishers, 2011) -
Vagabonds of the Western World(s): Continuities, Tensions and the Development of Irish Rock Music, 1968-78
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)This study examines the compositions and performance practices of three Irish rock musicians professionally active during the ‗classic‘ rock period of 1968-78. The primary research question focuses on establishing the ... -
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) -
We can check it in the corpus shur: Framing the use of corpus and corpus methodologies through an investigation of the pragmatic marker shur in Irish English
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013) -
‘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 lies beneath: an exploration of the unseen in John B. Keane's The field
(2016)John B. Keane remains a hugely popular dramatist, his plays continue to fill theatres to this day, and many of his characters have transcended from the stage and reside in common cultural consciousness. This dissertation ... -
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) -
"The whole man": a discussion of the influence of aspects of the occult and of German philosophy on Yeats’s dramatic theory and performance
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)This thesis will attempt to set out the core elements of the dramatic theory of William Butler Yeats. He had worked on this for many years, attempting to create a theatre in which unity of Image on stage would lead to a ...