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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 ... -
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 ... -
‘With great power comes great responsibility’: The impact of the parent-child relationship on the development of the heroic identity within comic book and graphic novel culture
(2020-12-17)The aim of this thesis is to explore the impact of the parent-child relationship on the development of the heroic identity within the comic book and graphic novel genre. The life of a hero is seen as a solitary one. ... -
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 ...