Browsing English Language and Literature (Peer-reviewed publications) by Subject "Language"
Now showing items 21-34 of 34
-
Pragmatics (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2015) -
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. -
Research in the teaching of speaking (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Journals, 2004) -
Seamus Heaney and the Ethics of Translation
(Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2003)This essay deals with two of Heaney’s major translations, Sweeney Astray and The Cure at Troy, are connected in terms of their ability to enunciate the voice of the other as well as to convey increasingly more complex ... -
Seamus Heaney’s Prose: Preoccupying Questions
(University of Ulster, 1999)This essay examines Seamus Heaney’s prose writings, wherein he discusses poetry as a mode of knowledge, which can explore the fractured aspects of identity and can shed light on aspects of what it mens to be human. Heaney’s ... -
Second language speaking (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2006)Approaches to spoken language description have contributed to the understanding of second language speaking. Three theoretical frameworks have also provided insight. Language Identity looks at the impact an additional ... -
Spoken language corpora and pedagogic applications (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2016) -
Teaching and Irish English
(Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Journals, 2011) -
'Through-otherness’ the deconstruction of language
(Pluto Press, 2003) -
Using corpus approaches in English language teacher education (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2019)The aim of this chapter is to explore the ways in which corpus linguistics (CL) can facilitate teacher development in terms of content, pedagogy, technology, and research. Based on our own and other reported experiences ... -
Vague language
(Cambridge University Press, 2015) -
Vocabulary instruction (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) -
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 ... -
Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: An intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction
(Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002)