Pragmatic markers in Irish English / edited by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, University of Extremadura ; Kevin McCafferty, University of Bergen ; Elaine Vaughan, University of Limerick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moreno, Carolina P. Amador, editor.

McCafferty, Kevin, 1955- editor.

Vaughan, Elaine (Linguist), editor.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 258.

Pragmatics & beyond

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Ireland.

English language.

English language--Ireland--Discourse analysis.

English language--Social aspects--Ireland.

English language--Variation--Ireland.

Pragmatics.

Discourse markers.

English language--Variation.

English language--Social aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

vi, 443 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Introduction p. 1 / Carolina P. Amador-Moreno; Kevin McCafferty; Elaine Vaughan

2 The Pragmatics of Irish English and Irish p. 17 / Raymond Hickey

3 "I always think of people here, you know, saying 'like' after every sentence" p. 37 / Karen P. Corrigan

4 A corpus-based investigation of pragmatic markers and sociolinguistic variation in Irish English p. 65 / Bróna Murphy

5 Kind of and sort of p. 89 / John M. Kirk

6 A comparative study of the pragmatic marker like in Irish English and in south-eastern varieties of British English p. 114 / Martin Schweinberger

7 "Actually, it's unfair to say that I was throwing stones" p. 135 / Jeffrey L. Kallen

8 "'Tis mad, yeah" p. 156 / Michael McCarthy

9 Turn initiators in professional encounters p. 176 / Fiona Farr; Elaine Riordan

10 "And your wedding is the twenty-second of June is it?" p. 203 / Anne Barron

11 "Hurry up baby son all the boys is finished their breakfast" p. 229 / Brian Clancy

12 Pragmatic markers as implicit emotive anchoring p. 248 / John Wilson; Heather Walker

13 "Sure this is a great country for drink and rowing at elections" p. 270 / Carolina P. Amador-Moreno; Kevin McCafferty

14 Blathering Beauties p. 292 / Sharon Millar

15 Pragmatic markers in contemporary radio advertising in Ireland p. 318 / Joan O'Sullivan

16 "Yeah well, probably, you know I wasn't that big into school, you know" p. 348 / María Palma-Fahey

17 "There's, like, total silence again, roysh, and no one says anything" p. 370 / Carolina P. Amador-Moreno

18 Now in the speech of newcomers to Ireland p. 390 / Bettina Migge

19 The significance of age and place of residence in the positional distribution of discourse like in L2 speech p. 408 / Niamh Nestor; Vera Regan

20 Name index p. 433

21 Subject index p. 437.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pragmatic markers in Irish English

ISBN:

9789027256638

9027256632

OCLC:

907631691