Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. The Pragmatics of Irish English and Irish 17
5. “I always think of people here, you know, saying ‘like’ after every sentence” 37
6. A corpus-based investigation of pragmatic markers and sociolinguistic variation in Irish English 65
7. Kind of and sort of 89
8. A comparative study of the pragmatic marker like in Irish English and in south-eastern varieties of British English 114
9. “Actually, it’s unfair to say that I was throwing stones” 135
10. “’Tis mad, yeah” 156
11. Turn initiators in professional encounters 176
12. “And your wedding is the twenty-second <.> of June is it?” 203
13. “Hurry up baby son all the boys is finished their breakfast” 229
14. Pragmatic markers as implicit emotive anchoring 248
15. “Sure this is a great country for drink and rowing at elections” 270
16. Blathering Beauties 292
17. Pragmatic markers in contemporary radio advertising in Ireland 318
18. “Yeah well, probably, you know I wasn’t that big into school, you know” 348
19. “There’s, like, total silence again, roysh, and no one says anything” 370
20. Now in the speech of newcomers to Ireland 390
21. The significance of age and place of residence in the positional distribution of discourse like in L2 speech 408
22. Name index 433
23. Subject index 437