The pragmatics of Irish English
By: edited by Anne Barron, Klaus P. Schneider.
Contributors: Barron, Anne.; Schneider, Klaus P.
Series: Trends in linguistics.; 164
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: English language -- Ireland.; English language -- Ireland -- Discourse analysis.; English language -- Social aspects -- Ireland.; English language -- Variation -- Ireland.; Pragmatics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Irish English : a focus on language in action / Anne Barron and Klaus P. Schneider; title: Irish English in the context of previous research / Raymond Hickey; title: Irish English in the private sphere : silence and mitigation in Irish English discourse / Jeffrey L. Kallen; title: Discourse markers in Irish English : an example from literature / Carolina P. Amador Moreno; title: No problem, you're welcome, anytime : responding to thanks in Ireland, England, and the USA / Klaus P. Schneider; title: Offering in Ireland and England / Anne Barron; title: You are fat. You'll eat them all : politeness strategies in family discourse / Brian Clancy; title: Irish English in the official sphere relational strategies in the discourse of professional performance review in an Irish academic environment : the case of language teacher education / Fiona Farr; title: Indirectness in Irish-English business negotiation : a legacy of colonialism? / Gillian Martin; title: Whatcha mean? the pragmatics of intercultural business communication in financial shared service centres / Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy and Martin Fahy; title: Forty two so please : politeness for sale in Southern-Irish service encounters / James Binchy; title: Irish English in the public sphere you've a daughter yourself? a corpus-based look at question forms in an Irish radio phone-in / Anne O'Keeffe; title: A relevance approach to Irish-English advertising : the case of Brennan's bread / Helen Kelly-Holmes.