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Post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on so forth’ – vague language in academic discourse, a comparative analysis of form, function and context (Pre-published version)
(John Benjamins, 2008)
The use of vague language is one of the most common features of everyday spoken English. Speakers regularly use vague expressions to project shared knowledge (e.g., pens, books, and that sort of thing) as well as to make ...
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 ...
Rites of Passage: Migrancy and the Liminality in Colum McCann’s "Songdogs" and "This Side of Brightness"
(Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2008)
This article deals with two novels by the Irish writer Colum McCann: Songdogs and
This Side of Brightness. Reading the narratives of both texts through the work of
anthropologist Victor Turner, the essay reveals how ...
The Force of Law in Seamus Heaney's Greek Translations
(Careysfort Press, 2008)
This essay examines the use of law in Heaney’s Greek translations: The Burial at Thebes, and The Cure at Troy. For Derrida,, the founding moment of law, in a society or culture, is never a moment ‘inscribed’ in the history ...
Using a corpus to look at variational pragmatics: response tokens in British and Irish discourse
(Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008)
The Body Politic: The Ethics of Responsibility and the Responsibility of Ethics
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
This chapter examines Heaney’s translations of Antigone in terms of its being a vehicle for an ethical interrogation of the laws and loyalties and of the contrast between the loyalty to one’s tribe and a broader intersubjective ...
Corpora and the study of spoken language (Pre-published version)
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2008)
Spoken corpora have evolved over the 40 last four decades from early attempts at corpus-building for the purposes of better understanding such phenomena as first-language acquisition, social variation and conversational ...
‘there’s a lot more to ogres than people think’: Shrek as ethical fairy tale
(Institute of Technology, Tallaght; Dublin Institute of Technology, 2008)