It's lunacy now

B Clancy, E Vaughan - New Perspectives on Irish English, 2012 - torrossa.com
This paper contributes to the characterisation of the pragmatic system of Irish English
through a corpus-based examination of the item now. Comparative corpus frequency data …

The pragmatics of the be + after + V-ing construction in Irish English

A O'Keeffe, CP Amador Moreno - 2009 - degruyter.com
This paper looks at a well-documented form in Irish English,'be after+ Verb-ing'(eg 'He's after
forgetting to pay her') which roughly equates to the present perfect aspect in Standard …

Politeness in Irish English

E Vaughan - The Oxford Handbook of Irish English, 2023 - books.google.com
Any approach to characterizing something as complex as politeness in a national variety
must be of necessity tentative and by nature somewhat partial. It should therefore be …

Teaching and Irish English: Irish English is widely understood as a robust native variety by Irish English language teachers

A O'Keeffe - English Today, 2011 - cambridge.org
The first decade of the twenty-first century has been characterised in Irish English studies by
a diversification of research agendas. Whereas studies before 2000 were largely concerned …

Anything but the ideal speaker listener in anything but a homogenous speech community: a study of communication through the medium of lingua franca English

K Harrington - 2024 - dspace.mic.ul.ie
This thesis characterizes the English spoken as a lingua franca by a community of asylum
seekers, none of whom spoke English as a native language, and it examines how they use …

"I tell you what we could do, we could say, cut it to a hundred and ninety-five, and offer you a significant discount on breakfast" - Expressing Commitment in Business …

S Pohle - 2009 - bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de
In the present study it is claimed that the outcome of a negotiation is the result of the
interactive dealing with offers during the negotiation process. The general importance of …

Influence of Shared Service Centers in the Performance of Multinationals in Kenya

A Karau - 2018 - erepository.uonbi.ac.ke
A high number of Multinational corporations (MNCs) have followed their peers in starting up
shared service centers (SSC). With most multinationals adopting this trend, it is without …

[PDF][PDF] An empirical study of business discourse in the Irish technology sector: Focusing on the Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) skills of Irish English …

G Flanagan - ABC Vienna, 2021 - wu.ac.at
This study investigates the intercultural communications of Irish English speakers who work
in the Irish technology sector. The technology sector employs over 210,000 staff in Ireland …

The pragmatics of the be+ after+ V-ing construction in Irish English (Pre-published version)

A O'Keeffe, CP Amador-Moreno - 2009 - dspace.mic.ul.ie
This paper looks at a well-documented form in Irish English,'be after+ Verb-ing'(eg 'He's after
forgetting to pay her') which roughly equates to the present perfect aspect in Standard …