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Investigating higher education seminar talk
(Novitas-ROYAL, 2010)
In this paper, we consider how a combined corpus linguistics and conversation analysis methodology can
reveal new insights into the relationship between interaction patterns, language use, and learning. The context of ...
A ‘Third’ Reading: James Joyce and Paul Howard and the Monstrous Aporia
(Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010)
Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse
(Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2010)
This article is a response to Bill Ashcroft’s ‘Critical Utopias’, which appeared
in this journal in 2007. In his earlier piece, Ashcroft offered a summary genealogy
of the historical and literary historical links between ...
Hurry up baby son all the boys is finished their breakfast: A socio-pragmatic analysis of Irish settled and Traveller family discourse
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2010)
The present study utilises an integrative theoretical approach that combines variational pragmatics and community of practice to examine two corpora representing spoken language collected in the home/family environment: ...
The confluence of culture,conflict and commitment in selected modern Palestinian poetry 1948 to 1993: a postcolonial perspective
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2010)
This thesis locates Palestinian poetry (in English translation) in the context of postcolonial literature, a perspective from which Arabic literature is not generally viewed. The valence of this perspective will be ...
War of the words: literary rebellion in France and Ireland (Pre-published version)
(T.I.R. [Université Rennes 2], 2010)
C.S. Lewis: An Irish Writer (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2010-02-10)
This article examines the effect of C.S. Lewis's Irish background on his work. It attempts to contradict the assumption that this Belfast-born writer should be included in the English and not the Irish canon. It emphasises ...
Haruki Murakami's postmodern condition: representing the postmodern in the translated novel
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2010)
This thesis offers a close reading of some of the texts of Haruki Murakami through a
postmodern lens, offering a new perspective on how the Japanese writer corroborates
Lyotard’s notion of the ‘Postmodern Condition’ and ...