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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. 15th International Conference on Sensors and Measurement Technology - SENSOR 2011
  2. Tagung "Mathe für alle" 2012
  3. Tourismuspolitischer Dialog - 2013
  4. Deferred Compensation Schemes, Fairness Concerns, and Employment of Older Workers
  5. Research Priorities in Light of the Future Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development
  6. Intercultural Relations in Practice 2017
  7. "Integration on the ground" - Assumptions and Consequences of Neighbourhood Strategies
  8. 19th Annual SemFest
  9. The Predictive Power of Social Media Sentiment for Short-Term Stock Movements
  10. Hyperkult XXV - 2015
  11. Education for Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change in Tourism Branch. Using Scenarios for Knowledge Transfer
  12. CfP Sektionstagung 2017
  13. Towards a New Aesthetic Paradigm
  14. Manet und die Revolution des Impressionismus
  15. Identifying Global Challenges for Future Tourism and Tourism Management
  16. Podiumsdiskussion zu »Heuschrecken«, Rimini Protokoll
  17. The effect of professional development on teachers’ PCK, on beliefs and on the quality of teaching
  18. Partisanship and Political Affection. The normative and epistemic functions of partisan discourse
  19. Università di Macerata
  20. Foucault trifft Latour
  21. Between Path Dependency and Tourism Area Life Cycle: Cultural Assets in the Light of Spa Re-development in East Germany
  22. Wien Depot: Podiumsdiskussion
  23. Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: New transparency, new opacity
  24. Karlstad Universität
  25. East German Spas: between path dependency and tourism life cycle
  26. Methods for Ph.D.
  27. Die Symbolgrafik als dritter Weg
  28. How important are SDGs for teacher educators? – Engage educators in a global landscape: Mapping the terrain with a case study of a pilot professional development program from Ethiopia
  29. Creating Space for Academic Feedom: Progressive Liberal Education in a German Public University
  30. The role of networked publics for participatory sustainability communication

Publications

  1. Theme zones in English media discourse
  2. "The (real) world is not enough:" Motivational drivers and user behavior in virtual worlds
  3. An Approach for Ex-Post-Facto Analysis of Knowledge Graph-Driven Chatbots – The DBpedia Chatbot
  4. Linking the multi-level perspective with social representations theory
  5. Pragmatics of Discourse
  6. Path dependence and technological expectations in transport policy
  7. The geometry of habitat fragmentation
  8. Explosive behaviour and long memory with an application to European bond yield spreads
  9. Requirements to modern semantic search engine
  10. Problemlösen in der Sekundarstufe I
  11. The patterns of curriculum change processes that embed sustainability in higher education institutions
  12. Why the future is democratic
  13. Researching participation in environmental governance through the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive
  14. Question Answering Mediated by Visual Clues and Knowledge Graphs
  15. Advanced extrusion processes
  16. Theorizing path dependence
  17. Development of a Questionnaire Assessing Discomfort – The Disco-Scale
  18. Von Modell zu Modell
  19. Integrated Concept for the Selection of Process-improving and Competence-increasing Methods for the Shopfloor