The pragmatics of Irish English
Projekt: Forschung
Projektbeteiligte
- Barron, Anne (Wissenschaftliche Projektleitung)
- Kirk, John (Partner*in)
- Schneider, Klaus P. (Partner*in, assoziiert)
- Queens University Belfast
The study of Irish English (IrE) on the phonological, grammatical and lexical levels is long established. Research on the pragmatics of Irish English, in contrast, is a recent endeavour, going back to the early years of this millennium. The aim of this long-term project is to identify the specific nature of appropriate language use in Irish English with relation to politeness theories. To this aim, the framework of variational pragmatics (Schneider/ Barron 2008, Barron/ Schneider 2009) is employed whereby language use in Irish English is contrasted with language use in other varieties of English. The focus of this project to date has been on the speech acts of apologising, offering and requesting. In addition, the pragmatic marker sure has been analysed across varieties, as have the use of tag questions. As well as contrasting patterns of language use in Irish English with those of other varieties of English, the research has also investigated patterns of language use within Irish English according to region (e.g. North/ South), gender and age. Corpus data, production questionnaire data (DCTs, FDCTs) and retrospective qualitative interviews have been the primary sources of data analysed.
Current research within the pragmatics of Irish English focuses on expressions of gratitude in online corpora, apologies in production questionnaires and on directives and responses to gratitude using interactional data from the Lueneburg Direction-Giving (LuDiG) corpus, a corpus of direction-giving interactions elicited for this project using a Labovian methodology.
Current research within the pragmatics of Irish English focuses on expressions of gratitude in online corpora, apologies in production questionnaires and on directives and responses to gratitude using interactional data from the Lueneburg Direction-Giving (LuDiG) corpus, a corpus of direction-giving interactions elicited for this project using a Labovian methodology.
Status | Laufend |
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Zeitraum | 01.01.20 → … |
- Sprachwissenschaften - Irish English, Pragmatik, Variation, Variational Pragmatics
Fachgebiete
Übergeordnetes Projekt
Variational Pragmatics: Regional variation across the Englishes
Projekt: Forschung
Publikationen
The Pragmatics of Irish English
Publikationen: Bücher und Anthologien › Sammelwerke und Anthologien
Contrasting requests in Inner Circle Englishes: A study in variational pragmatics
Publikationen: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Aufsätze in Sammelwerken
The structure of requests in Irish English and English English
Publikationen: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Aufsätze in Sammelwerken
Offering in Ireland and England
Publikationen: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Aufsätze in Sammelwerken
Irish English: A focus on language in action
Publikationen: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Aufsätze in Sammelwerken
Requesting in Irish English and English English: A study of intra-lingual regional pragmatic variation
Publikationen: Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere und Berichte › Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere
Variation revisited: A corpus analysis of offers in Irish English and British English
Publikationen: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Aufsätze in Konferenzbänden
Public Information Messages: A Contrastive Genre Analysis of State-Citizen Communication
Publikationen: Bücher und Anthologien › Monografien
Zugehörige Aktivitäten
No problem, alright, you're welcome: Responding to thanks in Ireland, England and Canada (New Perspectives on Irish English 6, University of Vienna)
Aktivität: Forschung › Konferenzvorträge