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In:Pragmatic Markers in Irish English
Edited by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 258] 2015
► pp. 292–317

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Blathering Beauties

The use of pragmatic markers on an Irish beauty blog

Published online: 15 July 2015
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Investigations of Irish English have not ventured into cyberspace to any great degree so this chapter represents a preliminary exploration into the virtual universe of Irish English. A case-study approach is adopted, trawling data from an Irish beauty website, www.beaut.ie, and specifically the beaut.ie/blather feature of this website. Here participants respond to items on the website, but also interact with each other about a wide variety of topics. All comments are archived with time of contribution and user name for each day’s ‘blather’, and so a database spanning several months of contributions was constructed. The aim of the study is to first identify what types of pragmatic markers are used in this conversational written genre and then to consider the function of such markers, with particular focus on issues of stance and ‘conversational’ structure.
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