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Professorship for English Linguistics

Organisational unit: Professoship

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The focus of research at the Chair of English Linguistics is on language use and interaction in context. Broadly put, we are interested

  1. in how conventions of language use and interaction vary across varieties and cultures (Intercultural Pragmatics, Variational Pragmatics, Contrastive Genre Analysis)
  2. in how pragmatic variation across varieties can be studied methodologically and theoretically
  3. in the conventions of use Irish English, and particularly in how these conventions vary vis-à-vis other varieties (the Pragmatics of Irish English)
  4. in how foreign and second language learners use language in context and how they develop such competencies over time (L2 Pragmatics). In this area, particular emphasis is placed on pragmatic development during stay abroad and on language use and interaction in the online telecollaborative context and
  5. in how conventions of language use can be taught using corpora, text-books and telecollaboration.

In addition, major international editing projects, including The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics (Routledge) and Pragmatics of Discourse: Handbook of Pragmatics III (De Gruyter, Mouton) have also been carried out.

Publications (57)

“I'll get it”: Payment offers, payment offer sequences and gender on First Dates

Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

Apologies and Corpus Pragmatics: Comparing a Form-to-Function and Function-to-Form Approach in SPICE-Ireland

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review

Explicit Apologies in Fictional Telecinematic Discourse

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review

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Projects (18)

Humboldt-Stipendium

Project: Individual grant

Georg Forster-Forschungsstipendium für Postdoktoranden (gefödert durch Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung)

Project: Research

Georg Forster-Forschungsstipendium für Postdoktoranden

Project: Research

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Activities (207)

English Language and Linguistics (Journal)

Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research

6th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association - AMPRA 2024 (Event)

Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research

The effects of pragmatic intervention on directives in EIL feedback speech events

Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research

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