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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 ...
Lost and found in the archives: Hannah Lynch and Dimitrios Vikélas Dublin, Athens, Paris: literary crossings and collaborations (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2023-11)
This essay illuminates a late nineteenth-century literary connection between Ireland and Greece, also revealing hitherto unexplored layers of the vibrant fin-de-siecle salon cultures in Paris and related literary and ...
Teacher talk at three stages of English language teacher career development: a corpus-aided study
(2021-03-30)
Classroom discourse (CD) and teacher talk (TT) have received much attention over the years across a range of research perspectives, from qualitative case studies of individual teacher narratives to large-scale quantitative ...
Céad mίle fáilte: a corpus-based study of the development of a community of practice within the Irish hotel management training sector
(2022-04-05)
This thesis examines the discourse of a unique third-level academic institution in order to identify the variety of linguistic features, which align it, first of all, to the higher education sector in general, but more ...
Principled pattern curation to guide data-driven learning design
(Elsevier, 2022-08-06)
Insights from corpus linguistics (CL) have informed language learning and materials design, among many other areas. An important nexus between CL and language learning is the use of Data-Driven Learning (DDL), which draws ...
‘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. ...
Breaking through the looking-glass: (re)imagining Alice through visual representation
(2020-12-17)
This thesis focuses on the visual iconography of the ‘Alice’ figure created in Lewis Carroll’s
Alice books, and it traces the progression of Alice’s characterisation through multimodal
platforms including illustration, ...
'Take him to the cleaners and make him do your homework': a corpus-based analysis of lexical structure used by English language learners
(2020-12-16)
The present study is an empirical corpus based analysis of the use of four lexical bundles or
strings by ESL students at a higher education centre in Ireland. The overall aim was to
ascertain if students at both ends ...
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 ...
A postcolonial and disability studies analysis of a selection of popular contemporary novels about disability
(2020-12-10)
This thesis will combine postcolonial theory and disability theory to analyse the representation of characters with a disability and their family members in a selection of contemporary popular novels. The texts examined ...