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

This paper describes an ongoing 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 English as it is spoken in Ireland. The corpus is genre-based and consists primaril...

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Main Authors:	Fiona Farr, Bróna Murphy, Anne O'Keefe
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics 2019-08-01
Series:	Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
Subjects:	Limerick Corpus of Irish English Irish English Corpus linguistics Hedging
Online Access:	https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/172

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spelling	doaj-2062cf71506a452b9d5afefb194f794a2020-11-25T01:31:12ZengThe Irish Association for Applied LinguisticsTeanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics 0332-205X2565-63252019-08-0121The Limerick Corpus of Irish English: design, description, and applicationFiona Farr0Bróna Murphy1Anne O'Keefe2University of LimerickUniversity of LimerickMary Immaculate College, University of Limerick This paper describes an ongoing 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 English as it is spoken in Ireland. The corpus is genre-based and consists primarily of casual conversational data. Details of the corpus design, development, and applications, both research and pedagogic, are described. An illustrative example of the linguistic phenomenon of HEDGING is explored and some classroom activities based on the findings are developed. https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/172Limerick Corpus of Irish EnglishIrish EnglishCorpus linguisticsHedging
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title	The Limerick Corpus of Irish English: design, description, and application
title_short	The Limerick Corpus of Irish English: design, description, and application
title_full	The Limerick Corpus of Irish English: design, description, and application
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title_full_unstemmed	The Limerick Corpus of Irish English: design, description, and application
title_sort	limerick corpus of irish english: design, description, and application
publisher	The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
series	Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
issn	0332-205X 2565-6325
publishDate	2019-08-01
description	This paper describes an ongoing 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 English as it is spoken in Ireland. The corpus is genre-based and consists primarily of casual conversational data. Details of the corpus design, development, and applications, both research and pedagogic, are described. An illustrative example of the linguistic phenomenon of HEDGING is explored and some classroom activities based on the findings are developed.
topic	Limerick Corpus of Irish English Irish English Corpus linguistics Hedging
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The Limerick Corpus of Irish English: design, description, and application

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