Department of English Language and Literature: Recent submissions
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'No longer afraid’ Michael Hartnett’s poems to younger women
(Four Courts Press, 2006) -
Defining Gothic-postmodernism.
(Rodopi, 2009) -
The Philistines as scapegoats: narratives and myths in the invention of ancient Israel and modern critical theory
(Edinburgh University Press, 2004)The Philistines have, for centuries, suffered under the weight of their relentlessly negative portrayal in the book of the Old Testament.From Goliath to Delilah, they have personified the intrinsically evil other in the ... -
'When it’s there I am, it’s here I want to be': the construction of Connemara
(Carysfort Press, 2006) -
A lot done, more to do – Barthes, Bertie and the facteur poujade
(Peter Lang, 2004) -
'Blitzophrenia': Brendan Kennelly's post-colonial vision.
(Irish University Review, 2003) -
'Is Medea's crime Medea's glory?' Euripides in Dublin.
(Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2002) -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Feeding back feedback – Towards a cyclical model for learner support
(Ireland Aid and Centre for Educational Disadvantage Research, 2003) -
The Media
(Routledge, 2011) -
Looking out for love and all the rest of it: vague category markers as shared social space (Pre-published version)
(Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007) -
The Limerick corpus of Irish English: design, description and application
(Irish Association for applied Linguistics, 2004)This paper describes an on-going corpus development and application project at the Mary Immaculate College and the University of Limerick, Ireland. The Limerick Corpus of Irish English is a one-million word corpus of ... -
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 ... -
Vocabulary instruction (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) -
Competencies explored and exposed: Grammar, lexis, communication and the notion of levels
(Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2012) -
Undergraduate academic writing: an analysis of errors and weaknesses in syntax, lexis, style and structure
(Dublin: Reading Association of Ireland, 2000) -
Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: An intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction
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Teaching and Irish English
(Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Journals, 2011)