Elaine Vaughan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elaine Vaughan is involved.

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Pragmatic Markers in Irish English

Edited by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan

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… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 258] 2015. vi, 443 pp.

Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan 2015 Introduction Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article

Clancy, Brian and Elaine Vaughan 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

Vaughan, Elaine 2010 Review of Anderson & Corbett (2009): Exploring English with Online Corpora: An Introduction International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15:4, pp. 557–560 | Review

Vaughan, Elaine 2008 5. 'Got a date or something?': A corpus analysis of the role of humour and laughter in the workplace meetings of English language teachers Corpora and Discourse: The challenges of different settings, Ädel, Annelie and Randi Reppen (eds.), pp. 95–115 | Article

This chapter brings instances of humour and laughter into relief using a corpus of authentic institutional interaction of English language teachers in school staff meetings. Humour is used within the meetings as a means of showing mutual support and creating solidarity. The corpus also contains a… read more