Browsing by Author "O'Keeffe, Anne"
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Teaching and Irish English
O'Keeffe, Anne (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Journals, 2011) -
The Media
O'Keeffe, Anne (Routledge, 2011) -
Introduction: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne; Farr, Fiona (John Bejamins, 2011) -
Investigating higher education seminar talk
O'Keeffe, Anne; Walsh, Steve (Novitas-ROYAL, 2010)In this paper, we consider how a combined corpus linguistics and conversation analysis methodology can reveal new insights into the relationship between interaction patterns, language use, and learning. The context of ... -
Historical perspective: What are corpora and how have they evolved? (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne; McCarthy, Michael (Routledge, 2010) -
The pragmatics of the be + after + V-ing construction in Irish English (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne; Amador-Moreno, Carolina P. (Mouton de Gruyter, 2009)This paper looks at a well-documented form in Irish English, ‘be after + Verb-ing’ (e.g. ‘He's after forgetting to pay her’) which roughly equates to the present perfect aspect in Standard English. The structure, a calque ... -
Post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on so forth’ – vague language in academic discourse, a comparative analysis of form, function and context (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne; McCarthy, Michael; Walsh, Steve (John Benjamins, 2008)The use of vague language is one of the most 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 ... -
Using a corpus to look at variational pragmatics: response tokens in British and Irish discourse
O'Keeffe, Anne; Adolphs, Svenja (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008) -
Corpora and the study of spoken language (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne; McCarthy, Michael (Mouton de Gruyter, 2008)Spoken corpora have evolved over the 40 last four decades from early attempts at corpus-building for the purposes of better understanding such phenomena as first-language acquisition, social variation and conversational ... -
Looking out for love and all the rest of it: vague category markers as shared social space (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne; McCarthy, Michael; Evison, Jane (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007) -
At the hands of the Brothers: a corpus-based lexico-grammatical analysis of stance in newspaper reporting of child sexual abuse (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne; Breen, Michael J. (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007)Over the last twenty years, the Irish people were confronted with a series of scandalous revelations about clergy and religious in Ireland; starting with the discovery that Eamonn Casey, while Bishop of Kerry, had fathered ... -
Introduction: Language Awareness (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne; Walsh, Steve (Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2007) -
Applying CA to a modes analysis of third-level spoken academic discourse (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne; Walsh, Steve (Peter Lang, 2007)Given the dominance of English as the main language of academia (and we acknowledge the political implications of this statement), an accurate pedagogical description of it is important for those of us who are attempting ... -
Second language speaking (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne; McCarthy, Michael (Elsevier, 2006)Approaches to spoken language description have contributed to the understanding of second language speaking. Three theoretical frameworks have also provided insight. Language Identity looks at the impact an additional ... -
‘You’ve a daughter yourself?’: a corpus-based look at lexico-grammatical choices and pragmatic effects in question forms in an Irish radio phone-in (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne (Mouton de Gruyter, 2005)Questions are widely studied especially in institutional contexts where a pervasion of questions is characteristic of such genres, for example political interviews, doctor-patient exchanges, courtroom interactions, and ... -
Like the wise virgins and all that jazz’ – using a corpus to examine vague language and shared knowledge
O'Keeffe, Anne (Language and Computers, 2004)This paper will use a corpus to explore vague categorisation (e.g. prostitutes, sailors and the like) in a specific context where the participants are strangers, but where they share the same socio-cultural reference points ... -
The Limerick corpus of Irish English: design, description and application
O'Keeffe, Anne; Farr, Fiona; Murphy, Brona (Irish Association for applied Linguistics, 2004)This paper describes an on-going corpus development and application project at the Mary Immaculate College and the University of Limerick, Ireland. The Limerick Corpus of Irish English is a one-million word corpus of ... -
Research in the teaching of speaking (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne; McCarthy, Michael (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Journals, 2004) -
Introduction: Teanga (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne; Farr, Fiona (IRAAL [Irish Association for Applied Linguistics], 2004) -
What's in a name? - vocatives in casual conversations and radio phone-in calls
O'Keeffe, Anne; McCarthy, Michael (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003)This paper looks at the use of vocatives across two corpora: the 5-million word Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) and a 55,000-word corpus of radio phone-in calls. 100 vocatives are sampled ... -
Feeding back feedback – Towards a cyclical model for learner support
O'Keeffe, Anne; Brosnan, Geraldine; Binchy, James (Ireland Aid and Centre for Educational Disadvantage Research, 2003) -
Reading and writing at university – raising genre awareness as initiation into a discourse community (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne; Binchy, James (Reading Association of Ireland, 2003)The theoretical concepts of 'genre' and 'discourse community' will be drawn on in this paper to evolve a theoretical model that we hope to apply to the context of academic writing and to attainment at third level. Genre ... -
Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: An intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction
Farr, Fiona; O'Keeffe, Anne (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002) -
Exploring indices of national identity in a corpus of radio phone-in data from Irish radio (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne (University of Valencia Press, 2002)Radio phone-in has a reflexive function in bringing the voices of a community to a community. For those who telephone the programme, it provides interpersonal communication even if they do not ‘go on air’. For those who ... -
Five ideas for using authentic television clips (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne (FELT [Forum for English Language Teachers (Ireland)], 2001)Television offers many opportunities for materials development. Below are five prototype lessons based around different genres of television material: soap opera; film; comedy; advertising and news broadcast. Before you ... -
TEFL in Ireland – Reflecting a profession?
O'Keeffe, Anne (FELT [Forum for English Language Teachers (Ireland)], 2001)In response to issues raised in Gronia deVerdon Cooney’s article on TEFL qualifications in a recent FELT Newsletter (see De Verdon Cooney, 2000, p.8), I wish to reflect on the notion of TEFL as a profession in Ireland. ... -
Undergraduate academic writing: an analysis of errors and weaknesses in syntax, lexis, style and structure
O'Keeffe, Anne (Dublin: Reading Association of Ireland, 2000) -
Exploring television as an exponent of pragmatic and sociocultural information in foreign language learning (Pre-published version)
O'Keeffe, Anne (CILT Publications, 2000)It is increasingly recognised that being both fluent and accurate in a foreign language will not always guarantee successful communication between speakers. According to Hyde (1998: 10), in his discussion on intercultural ... -
A corpus of Irish English – Past, present, future
O'Keeffe, Anne; Barker, Gosia (Irish Association for applied Linguistics, 1999)To date, no corpus of Irish English exists. Most previous research has focused on the syntactic and phonological peculiarities of Irish English showing how it differs from standard British English, and in the same way, ...