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A corpus-based comparative pragmatic analysis of Irish English and Canadian English
(2022-04-06)
This PhD thesis is a comparative study of the spoken grammar of Irish and Canadian Englishes within the framework of Variational Pragmatics at the formal level, used to study the pragmatic variation (the intra-varietal ...
'Take him to the cleaners and make him do your homework': a corpus-based analysis of lexical structure used by English language learners
(2020-12-16)
The present study is an empirical corpus based analysis of the use of four lexical bundles or
strings by ESL students at a higher education centre in Ireland. The overall aim was to
ascertain if students at both ends ...
Teacher talk at three stages of English language teacher career development: a corpus-aided study
(2021-03-30)
Classroom discourse (CD) and teacher talk (TT) have received much attention over the years across a range of research perspectives, from qualitative case studies of individual teacher narratives to large-scale quantitative ...
Céad mίle fáilte: a corpus-based study of the development of a community of practice within the Irish hotel management training sector
(2022-04-05)
This thesis examines the discourse of a unique third-level academic institution in order to identify the variety of linguistic features, which align it, first of all, to the higher education sector in general, but more ...