Brian Clancy
List of John Benjamins publications in which Brian Clancy is involved.
2018 Conflict in corpora: Investigating family conflict sequences using a corpus pragmatic approach Closeness and conflict: The discourse of domestic discord across English and Spanish-speaking communities, Boxer, Diana and María Elena Placencia (eds.), pp. 228–247 | Article
The analysis of conflict in family discourse has often been characterised by ethnographic approaches and/or fine-grained analysis of unique conflict episodes. This article, by contrast, uses a c.175,000-word spoken corpus of Irish family discourse, in conjunction with a corpus pragmatic… read more
2018 Corpus linguistics and pragmatics Pragmatics and its Interfaces, Ilie, Cornelia and Neal R. Norrick (eds.), pp. 241–266 | Chapter
Pragmatics and corpus linguistics were long considered mutually exclusive. In recent years, however, common ground has been discovered thus paving the way for the new field of corpus pragmatics. This chapter shows that corpus pragmatics integrates the qualitative methodology typical of… read more
2015 “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 discourse Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan (eds.), pp. 229–247 | Article
The data for this chapter comprises two corpora representing the intimate
genre collected in the home/family environment: one from a middle class Irish
family and one from a family belonging to the Irish Traveller community, an
ethnic minority group accounting for less than 1% of the Irish… read more
2012 “It’s lunacy now”: A corpus-based pragmatic analysis of the use of ‘now’ in contemporary Irish English New Perspectives on Irish English, Migge, Bettina and Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds.), pp. 225–246 | Article
This paper contributes to the characterisation of the pragmatic system of Irish English through a corpus-based examination of the item now. Comparative corpus frequency data confirm the saliency of now in Irish English, highlighting the need for a more nuanced investigation. This investigation… read more
2011 Complementary perspectives on hedging behaviour in family discourse: The analytical synergy of variational pragmatics and corpus linguistics Applying Corpus Linguistics, Farr, Fiona and Anne O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 371–390 | Article
This paper argues that corpus linguistics offers a methodology which benefits variational pragmatic analysis in a number of ways. Corpus linguistic tools such as word frequency lists allow the researcher to construct a detailed “pragmatic profile” of a word, cluster or act. This, coupled with the… read more