English Language and Literature (Peer-reviewed publications): Recent submissions
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“An art that knows its mind”: prayer, poetry and post-Catholic identity in Seamus Heaney’s “Squarings”
(Universitaires du Septentrion, 2014)Seamus Heaney’s “Squarings” sequence from his 1991 collection Seeing Things speaks of the “virtue of an art that knows its mind”. This sequence attempts to know the mind in both its immanent and transcendent aspects, through ... -
Reflections on (of) nationalism
(Kairos, 1998)This project attempts to define the epistemological structure of nationalism and to suggest a theoretical model through which this can be done. I would argue that this theorization will apply to nationalism per se; however, ... -
Small corpora and pragmatics (Pre-published version)
(Springer, 2013)Corpus linguistics is more often than not associated with large-scale collections of spoken or written data, representing genres, varieties or contexts of use. Many of these have been successfully exploited for pragmatics ... -
The exchange in family discourse (Pre-print version)
(Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL), 2002)The intimate genre of family discourse has traditionally posed problems for linguists because of the difficulty in collecting the data and the intimate nature of the genre. For obvious reasons, people view family life as ... -
Transitions from second level and further education to third level. Focused research report no. 6
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Conflict in corpora: Investigating family conflict sequences using a corpus pragmatic approach (Pre-published version)
(John Benjamins, 2018)The analysis of conflict in family discourse has often been characterised by ethnographic approaches and/or fine-grained analysis of unique conflict episodes. This article, by contrast, uses a c.175,000-word spoken corpus ... -
Complementary perspectives on hedging behaviour in family discourse: The analytical synergy of variational pragmatics and corpus linguistics (Pre-published version)
(John Benjamins, 2011)This paper argues that corpus linguistics offers a methodology which benefits variational pragmatic analysis in a number of ways. Corpus linguistic tools such as word frequency lists allow the researcher to construct a ... -
“Only connect”: Irish women’s voices, Latin America & the Irish women’s writing network
(The Society for Irish Latin American Studies, 2018)This essay offers a preliminary sketch of the recent critical attention given to Irish women and the literary interfaces between Ireland and Latin America (e.g. travel writers, immigrant or diasporic writers, and those ... -
Virgilian hauntings in the later poetry of Seamus Heaney
(AEDEI [Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses], 2018)This article examines the influence of Virgil upon the poetry of Seamus Heaney through the theoretical lens of Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx. The paper argues that the present and future are influenced by spectres of ... -
Irish autobiographical fiction and Hannah Lynch's "Autobiography of a child"
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Hannah Lynch and narratives of the Irish literary revival
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Introduction: Corpus Pragmatics (Pre-published version)
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Introduction: Corpus Pragmatics (Pre-published version)
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Using language corpora in initial teacher education: pedagogic issues and practical applications (Re-printed version)
(TESOL, 2003)Recent years have seen a vast increase in the amount of materials such as dictionaries and grammars which are ‘corpus-based’ and it is difficult to dispute the contribution of corpus linguistics to English language ... -
The pragmatics of the be + after + V-ing construction in Irish English (Pre-published version)
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2009)This paper looks at a well-documented form in Irish English, ‘be after + Verb-ing’ (e.g. ‘He's after forgetting to pay her’) which roughly equates to the present perfect aspect in Standard English. The structure, a calque ... -
Can English provide a framework for Spanish response tokens? (Pre-published version)
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2013)This paper investigates the question of whether response items in Spanish can be analysed using frameworks developed for the study of similar items in English. Data comes from the Spanish corpus COREC, the Corpus Oral de ... -
Applying corpus linguistics and conversation analysis in the investigation of small group teaching in higher education (Pre-published version)
(de Gruyter, 2012)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 the ... -
Research in the teaching of speaking (Pre-published version)
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'I know something now of my Irish subjects': Castle Rackrent and Maria Edgeworth's imagined communities
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2003)