Browsing Department of English Language and Literature by Subject "Pragmatics"
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A corpus-based comparative pragmatic analysis of Irish English and Canadian English
(2022-04-06)This PhD thesis is a comparative study of the spoken grammar of Irish and Canadian Englishes within the framework of Variational Pragmatics at the formal level, used to study the pragmatic variation (the intra-varietal ... -
Introduction: Teanga (Pre-published version)
(IRAAL [Irish Association for Applied Linguistics], 2004) -
Pragmatics (Pre-published version)
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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 ... -
The pragmatics of Irish English (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)The use of English in Ireland shows specific features which contribute to its unique profile. -
The pragmatics of the be + after + V-ing construction in Irish English (Pre-published version)
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2009)This paper looks at a well-documented form in Irish English, ‘be after + Verb-ing’ (e.g. ‘He's after forgetting to pay her’) which roughly equates to the present perfect aspect in Standard English. The structure, a calque ...