Anne O'Keeffe
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anne O'Keeffe is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1384-6655 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9811
Titles
Corpus Linguistics for Language Learning Research
Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Geraldine Mark and Anne O'Keeffe
This book serves as an introduction to corpus linguistics (CL) for graduate students and researchers in Applied Linguistics, especially in the domains of language learning and teaching. It provides a structured and accessible approach for those new to CL, equipping readers with the foundational… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 12] 2025. xiii, 207 pp.
Applying Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Fiona Farr and Anne O'Keeffe
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 16:3 (2011) vi, 136 pp.
2025 Doing meetings online: Understanding variation in virtual workplace meetings Register and Professional Discourse, Staples, Shelley and Gavin Brookes (eds.), pp. 130–160 | Article
This paper contributes to previous work on workplace registers by presenting an analysis of a corpus of virtual meetings. The Interactional Variation Online corpus is comprised of recordings of virtual meetings from four different organisations. This study describes how each organisation shares… read more
2024 Indicating engagement in online workplace meetings: The role of backchannelling head nods Corpus Approaches to Business Communication, Gillings, Mathew and Susanne Kopf (eds.), pp. 389–416 | Article
Amid COVID-19 and the so-called “digital pivot”, online virtual communication is at the heart of our professional and private lives. As we move into a post-COVID context, the affordances of the digital turn have shown that we can operate professionally online but there is a need for better… read more
2021 Chapter 2. Data-driven learning, theories of learning and second language acquisition: In search of intersections Beyond Concordance Lines: Corpora in language education, Pérez-Paredes, Pascual and Geraldine Mark (eds.), pp. 35–56 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the need to address both theories of learning and theories of language acquisition in data-driven learning (DDL) research. While it recognises that there has been so much worthwhile research work on DDL which has shed so much light on the value of DDL, it is still not a… read more
2017 The English Grammar Profile of learner competence: Methodology and key findings International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:4, pp. 457–489 | Article
English Profile (EP) is an ongoing empirical exploration of learner English initiated by Cambridge University Press and Cambridge English, among others. EP aims to create a set of empirically-based descriptions of language competencies for English. ‘Reference Level Descriptors’ already exist as… read more
2011 Introduction Applying Corpus Linguistics, Farr, Fiona and Anne O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 299–304 | Article
2011 Analysing university spoken interaction: A CL/CA approach Applying Corpus Linguistics, Farr, Fiona and Anne O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 325–345 | Article
In this article, we consider how corpus linguistics (CL) and conversation analysis (CA) can be used together to provide enhanced descriptions of spoken interaction in the context of small group teaching in higher education. From our analysis of the data, we show how the two approaches can be… read more
2008 Response tokens in British and Irish discourse: Corpus, context and variational pragmatics Variational Pragmatics: A focus on regional varieties in pluricentric languages, Schneider, Klaus P. and Anne Barron (eds.), pp. 69–98 | Article
2008 2. '…post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on and so forth': A comparative analysis of vague category markers in academic discourse Corpora and Discourse: The challenges of different settings, Ädel, Annelie and Randi Reppen (eds.), pp. 9–29 | Article
The use of vague language is one of themost common features of everyday spoken English. Speakers regularly use vague expressions to project shared knowledge (e.g., pens, books, and that sort of thing) as well as to make approximations (e.g. around sevenish; he’s sort of tall). Research shows that… read more
2002 2. Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: An intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation, Reppen, Randi, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 25–48 | Chapter