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Pragmatic Markers in Irish English
Pragmatic Markers in Irish English offers 18 studies from the perspective of variational pragmatics by established and younger scholars with an interest in the English of Ireland. Taking a broad definition of pragmatic markers (PMs) as items operating outside the structural limits of the clause that encode speakers’ intentions and interpersonal meanings, this volume includes discussions of traditional PMs like sure that are strongly associated with Irish English, recent globally-spreading innovations like quotative like, and studies of tag questions, vocatives and emoticons. The data sets used cover most of the existing and developing corpora of Irish English as well as historical legal depositions, films, advertising and recent fiction, interviews, recorded conversations, and blogs. The authors address general issues such as what corpora of Irish English might add to the description of PMs in general, the interaction of Irish and Irish English, historical and contemporary uses of specific PMs, and the usage of recent immigrants to Ireland.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 258] 2015. vi, 443 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 6 July 2015
Published online on 6 July 2015
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- IntroductionCarolina P. Amador-Moreno, Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan | pp. 1–16
- The Pragmatics of Irish English and IrishRaymond Hickey | pp. 17–36
- “I always think of people here, you know, saying ‘like’ after every sentence”: The dynamics of discourse-pragmatic markers in Northern Irish EnglishKaren P. Corrigan | pp. 37–64
- A corpus-based investigation of pragmatic markers and sociolinguistic variation in Irish EnglishBróna Murphy | pp. 65–88
- Kind of and sort of: Pragmatic discourse markers in the SPICE-Ireland CorpusJohn M. Kirk | pp. 89–113
- A comparative study of the pragmatic marker like in Irish English and in south-eastern varieties of British EnglishMartin Schweinberger | pp. 114–134
- “Actually, it’s unfair to say that I was throwing stones”: Comparative perspectives on uses of actually in ICE-IrelandJeffrey L. Kallen | pp. 135–155
- “’Tis mad, yeah”: Turn openers in Irish and British EnglishMichael McCarthy | pp. 156–175
- Turn initiators in professional encounters: Teacher education discourse in an Irish University settingFiona Farr and Elaine Riordan | pp. 176–202
- “And your wedding is the twenty-second <.> of June is it?”: Tag questions in Irish EnglishAnne Barron | pp. 203–228
- “Hurry up baby son all the boys is finished their breakfast”: Examining the use of vocatives as pragmatic markers in Irish Traveller and settled family discourseBrian Clancy | pp. 229–247
- Pragmatic markers as implicit emotive anchoring: Modality as evidence of trauma in the 1641 depositionsJohn Wilson and Heather Walker | pp. 248–269
- “Sure this is a great country for drink and rowing at elections”: Pragmatic markers in the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence, 1750�1940Carolina P. Amador-Moreno and Kevin McCafferty | pp. 270–291
- Blathering Beauties: The use of pragmatic markers on an Irish beauty blogSharon Millar | pp. 292–317
- Pragmatic markers in contemporary radio advertising in IrelandJoan O’Sullivan | pp. 318–347
- “Yeah well, probably, you know I wasn’t that big into school, you know”: Pragmatic markers and the representation of Irish English in fictionalised dialogueMaría Palma-Fahey | pp. 348–369
- “There’s, like, total silence again, roysh, and no one says anything”: Fictional representations of �new� pragmatic markers and quotatives in Irish EnglishCarolina P. Amador-Moreno | pp. 370–389
- Now in the speech of newcomers to IrelandBettina Migge | pp. 390–407
- The significance of age and place of residence in the positional distribution of discourse like in L2 speechNiamh Nestor and Vera Regan | pp. 408–432
- Name index | pp. 433–436
- Subject index | pp. 437–443
“A timely addition to the growing field of research into Irish English (IrE) from a pragmatic perspective. This volume, which consists of 18 chapters and an introduction, offers fresh insights into a wide range of pragmatic markers (PMs), both traditional and non-traditional, which appear in varieties of English spoken in Ireland. [...] Indeed, given the variety of PMs under investigation and the diversity of the corpora in which they were found, I expect this collection to be a touchstone for future research on pragmatic markers from an international perspective.”
Shane Walshe, University of Zurich, in English World-Wide 38:1 (2017)
“It will no doubt be valuable to students and scholars working on prototypical and less prototypical (and indeed sometimes little-known) pragmatic markers in IrE. It will be especially relevant for those interested in topics such as regional and sociolinguistic variation in the use of pragmatic markers, their discourse functions and indexicality, as well as their provenance, historical development and L2 acquisitional patterns. More broadly, the volume will also be of interest to anyone wishing to explore the pragmatics of IrE.”
Irina Pandarova, Leuphana Universität, in Corpus Pragmatics Vol. 70:1 (2017)
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