Browsing Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences by Author "O'Keeffe, Anne"

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The Limerick Corpus of Irish English: design, description and application

Farr, Fiona; Murphy, Brona; O'Keeffe, Anne (IRAAL: The 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 ...
Using language corpora in initial teacher education: pedagogic issues and practical applications

O'Keeffe, Anne; Farr, Fiona (TESOL: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2003)

Recent years have seen a vast increase in the amount of materials such as dictionaries and grammars which are ‘corpus-based’ and it is difficult to dispute the contribution of corpus linguistics to English language ...
Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: an intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction

Farr, Fiona; O'Keeffe, Anne (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002)

Hedging is an interactional strategy that speakers and writers avail of in communication, and they do so in a variety of ways and for different reasons. The purpose of this study is to look at one hedging device in two ...

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