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Vague category markers as turn‐final items in Irish English
Author(s) -
VAUGHAN ELAINE,
MCCARTHY MICHAEL,
CLANCY BRIAN
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/weng.12254
Subject(s) - irish , conversation , world englishes , turn taking , focus (optics) , linguistics , sociology , varieties of english , psychology , communication , optics , philosophy , physics
This study uses the Limerick Corpus of Irish English (LCIE), and a sample of the Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) to implement a corpus pragmatic approach to the analysis of Irish English by focusing on the organization of turn‐taking in two connected, though distinct, varieties of world Englishes, Irish English and British English. The aim of the research is two‐pronged: we explore how naturally‐occurring conversation is organised in the two varieties for comparative purposes, seeking to understand how confluence in turn‐taking is achieved in everyday interactions, as well as examining how the interactional flow is achieved through the manipulation of small, interpersonally loaded items, turn initial and turn final, with the focus here on turn final items.