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The pragmatics of Irish English

Project: Research

Project participants

  • Barron, Anne (Project manager, academic)
  • Schneider, Klaus Peter (Partner)

Description

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.
StatusActive
Period01.01.20 → …

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Researchers

  1. Hans-Joachim Plewig

Activities

  1. Sustainability on Campus - Overview, Implementation and Outlook
  2. Network Governance Code: enhancing competitiveness of enterprises and their networks by self-regulation
  3. Workshop on Gender Responsive Policy Making - 2015
  4. Peter Lang (Verlag)
  5. Criteria and Strategies of Student Teachers to Deal with Teaching Material from the Internet about Refugees
  6. Intercultural Relations in Practice 2017
  7. 29th International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials - IWCMM29
  8. Workshop on “The Design of International Institutions: Theory Meets Data” - 2013
  9. Dissertation "Government alternation in Western Europe : a comparative exploration"
  10. International Symposium on Learning Materials and Instruction - 2019
  11. 9th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices - SSD 2012
  12. MpWH-Jahrestagung 2016 (Veranstaltung)
  13. Resilience, Innovation and Sustainability: Navigating the Complexities of Global Change - Resilience 2011
  14. Embedding sustainability in the curriculum: practicing what we teach 2013
  15. The Simulation of Everything: Social Simulations 1970 | 2010

Publications

  1. SH-CoDE: Scholarly Hybrid Complex Question Decomposition and Execution
  2. Finding the Best Match — a Case Study on the (Text‑) Feature and Model Choice in Digital Mental Health Interventions
  3. Benchmarking question answering systems
  4. Generic functions of railway stations
  5. Reconfiguring Desecuritization
  6. The language of situated joint activity: Social virtual reality and language learning in virtual exchange
  7. Increasing skepticism toward potential liars
  8. Individual differences and cognitive load theory
  9. Negotiating boundaries through reality shows
  10. How to specify the structure of substituted blade-like zigzag diamondoids
  11. Embedded, not plugged-in
  12. Lab-scale experiment of a closed thermochemical heat storage system including honeycomb heat exchanger
  13. Aligning the design of intermediary organisations with the ecosystem
  14. Integrating methods for ecosystem service assessment
  15. Comparative observations, empirical findings and research perspectives
  16. A Model Based Feedforward Regulator Improving PI Control of an Ice-Clamping Device Activated by Thermoelectric Cooler
  17. Cyclic and non-cyclic crew rostering problems in public bus transit
  18. Uncertainty, Pluralism, and the Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm
  19. Situated Institutions: The Role of Place, Space and Embeddedness in Institutional Dynamics
  20. Exploring the Capacity of Water Framework Directive Indices to Assess Ecosystem Services in Fluvial and Riparian Systems
  21. Panel Cointegration Testing in the Presence of a Time Trend
  22. Introduction - Teaching Artistic Strategies. Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics and Ambiguity
  23. Common Ground and Development
  24. Determinants and consequences of clawback provisions in management compensation contracts
  25. Effects of strategy instructions on learning from text and pictures
  26. Natality ‒ Philosophical Rudiments concerning a Generative Phenomenology
  27. Cross-Channel Real-Time Response Analysis
  28. States of Comparability