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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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Activities

  1. Control and Freedom: On Interactivity as a Software effect
  2. Digitally-Enhanced TBLT in Synchronous Video-Based ELT: A Qualitative-Empirical Study on the Use of Task-Supported, Video- Based English Teaching (poster)
  3. Ocean eddies and the polar vortex: coherence in complex systems
  4. Entwicklung und Validierung eines videobasierten Instruments zur Erfassung von Feedbackkompetenz.
  5. The use of digital communication media for cross-border knowledge transfer: Influencing the expatriation process
  6. College (Organisation)
  7. International Symposium on Learning Materials and Instruction - 2019
  8. Multi-stakeholder working group on Peasant Reserve Zones
  9. How is Research Creation as Other Knowledge?
  10. ISKO Lectures Summer Semester 2016
  11. 9th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices - SSD 2012
  12. Future-U interdisciplinary Workshop "Futures of the University and Universities of the Future?" - 2015
  13. Democratic Myopia and Future Generations: On Institutional Innovations, their Impact Potential, and the Challenges of their Institutionalization
  14. The Australian National University
  15. "Listen I‘m sorry. I didn‘t mean to offend you.": Conventions of language use across the Englishes (Universität Erfurt)
  16. Workshop: "Transfer of Tourism Knowledge and Tourism Results – Publishing Issues of the Future" - 2006

Publications

  1. From temporal myopia to foresight: Bridging the near and the distant future through temporal work
  2. Does Allulose Appeal to Consumers? Results from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Germany
  3. Competence-Oriented Teaching
  4. The interaction of ecological norm orientation and external factors in the domain of travel mode choice behavior
  5. Negotiating boundaries through reality shows
  6. Backward Extended Kalman Filter to Estimate and Adaptively Control a PMSM in Saturation Conditions
  7. Design for the triple topline
  8. Assessing tree dendrometrics in young regenerating plantations using terrestrial laser scanning
  9. Lab-scale experiment of a closed thermochemical heat storage system including honeycomb heat exchanger
  10. Economic Analysis of Recycling Solutions to Exploit Plastic Pollution in Oceans
  11. State-wide university implementation of an online platform for eating disorders screening and intervention.
  12. Søren Kierkegaard in deutscher Sprache
  13. Same but different? Measurement invariance of the PIAAC motivation-to-learn scale across key socio-demographic groups
  14. Reality Mining
  15. The Challenge of Democratic Representation in the European Union
  16. Planar multipole resonance probe
  17. Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification: Additional insights on the pattern of convergence
  18. Inquiry-based Learning Environments to Welcome the Diversity of a Chemistry Class
  19. Conclusion
  20. Learning Strategies of First Year University Students
  21. Effects of different video- or text-based reflection stimuli on pre-service teachers’ emotions, immersion, cognitive load and knowledge-based reasoning
  22. Cross-Translation
  23. Effects of strategy instructions on learning from text and pictures
  24. Cross-Channel Real-Time Response Analysis
  25. Effects of budget constraints on conservation network design for biodiversity and ecosystem services
  26. Modality of task presentation and mathematical abilitiy in a study about spatial ability
  27. Vibration analysis based on the spectrum kurtosis for adjustment and monitoring of ball bearing radial clearance
  28. Sustainability and management control. Exploring and theorizing control patterns in large European firms
  29. Comprehensive analysis of the forming zone and improvement of diameter reduction prediction in the dieless wire drawing process
  30. Informatik
  31. Tree-tree interactions and crown complementarity