Pragmatics of Irish and Australian English: implications for legal and intercultural communication
Journal: Law and innovative society
Year: 2025

The article is dedicated to the study of the pragmatic features of the Irish and Australian varieties of English within legal and intercultural discourse. A corpus-based and linguo-pragmatic analysis of selected Irishisms (Gaeltacht, Taoiseach, Oireachtas) and Australisms (Appeasement, Court of Petty Sessions, Tent Embassy) is applied. Our choice of these specific culturally marked realia could be explained by their active usage in legal contexts (proven by the corpus data) and their direct impa