Marina Mccarthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 126420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marina Mccarthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marina |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccarthy |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARTHY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6795-3816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“No” and “net” as response tokens in English and Russian business discourse: In search of a functional equivalence
The literature on English suggests that turn-initial no fulfils a variety of discourse-pragmatic functions beyond its use as a negative response to polar questions. We cannot assume that the same range or distribution of functions is realised by its nearest Russian equivalent, net . Hence, investigating the contrasts and similarities in the nomenclature and distribution of functions of no and net should pose an important research problem for vari…
Fifty-five years and counting: A half-century of getting it half-right
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Vague language in business and academic contexts
Business English and academic English may perhaps be thought of as areas of language use requiring precision of expression and a quest for specific and unambiguous meaning. However, corpus evidence shows that both types of language, in their spoken contexts, exhibit noticeable use of the kinds of vague expressions found in everyday conversation. In this lecture, I focus on one type of vagueness: vague category marking (VGM) . This feature involve…
Interaction management in academic speaking
In this article we look at some basic features of interaction and compare their occurrence and functions in everyday English conversation with their use in academic speaking. The features include discourse markers, vague category markers, response tokens and interpersonal chunks. We give examples from spoken corpora and illustrate the special functions of the features in academic interactions. We then consider issues in the teaching of spoken aca…
English and Russian vague category markers in business discourse: Linguistic identity aspects
Vague category markers (hereafter VCMs), also known as general extenders, are a pervasive phenomenon of spoken discourse. They include expressions such as and things like that and or whatever. They have been studied in conversational contexts and specialised contexts (e.g. courtroom discourse, radio broadcasts) but spoken business and professional communication has received relatively less attention. Using two corpora, this article addresses: (1)…
Novelty and Usefulness Trade-Off: Cultural Cognitive Differences and Creative Idea Evaluation
Creativity and innovation have become critical organizational capabilities in today's global environment, and leveraging creative potential of employees across various cultural contexts has become increasingly important. Although recognized among researchers, cross-cultural differences in creativity are not yet well understood. We contribute to this line of research by constructing a theoretical model that focuses on cultural differences in cogni…
Spoken Grammar: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
This article synthesises progress made in the description of spoken (especially conversational) grammar over the 20 years since the authors published a paper in this journal arguing for a re-thinking of grammatical description and pedagogy based on spoken corpus evidence. We begin with a glance back at the 16th century and the teaching of Latin grammar in England, with its emphasis on speaking the target language. Later grammars were dominated by…
Usage on the move: Evolution and re-volution
One of the problems involved in using corpora to investigate language change is that many corpora are synchronic, particularly spoken ones. To observe change, a combination of methods is the most fruitful approach. As well as the evidence of corpora, grammars and usage manuals of former decades and centuries reveal not only how standards of correctness and good style in relation to speaking and writing were perceived in their time, but also how s…
Vague category markers as turn-final items in Irish English
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 convers…
Putting the Cefr to good use: Designing grammars based on learner-corpus evidence
This lecture considers what reference and pedagogical grammars and grammar teaching materials for L2 learners should ideally include, based on corpus evidence from both native-speaker and learner corpora. I demonstrate how learner corpora can be used to track the emergence of grammatical features, from the elementary level to advanced, how learners get to grips with new grammar and what we can learn from the statistical output of error-coded corp…
Lexis in spoken discourse
SS Xantho Project: Nearing completion
Early Port-Related Structure Studies
Analyzing Spoken Corpora
Spoken corpora are collections of spoken texts, either in the form of transcripts alone or accompanied by audio or audiovisual recordings, stored in a computer and made available for analysis using customized software programs.
The Routledge handbook of corpus linguistics
Heritage Microbiology and Science: Microbes, Monuments and Maritime Materials
Accessing and interpreting corpus information in the teacher education context
As more and more teachers become aware of corpus resources and their applications, questions arise as to how best to prepare teachers in training appropriately to access and interpret corpus information. This is important as an element of materials evaluation as more and more types of materials and resources become corpus-informed. To date, relatively little attention has been given in teacher education programmes to the growing influence of corp…
From Corpus to Classroom: Language Use and Language Teaching
From Corpus to Classroom summarises and makes accessible recent work in corpus research, focusing particularly on spoken data. It is based on analysis of corpora such as CANCODE and Cambridge International Corpus, and written with particular reference to the development of corpus-informed pedagogy. The book explains how corpora can be designed and used, and focuses on what they tell us about language teaching. It examines the relevance of corpora…
There's millions of them: Hyperbole in Everyday Conversation
England: Ceramics
Talking Back: "Small" Interactional Response Tokens in Everyday Conversation
Because many studies of small talk (and talk in general) focus on the input of main speakers, the verbal behavior of listeners is often underrepresented in descriptions of interaction. The notion of small talk as talk superfluous to transactional exigencies enables us to encompass a variety of phenomena, including phatic exchanges, relational language, and various types of insertion sequence. This article adds to this range of phenomena by examin…
Good listenership made plain: British and American non-minimal response tokens in everyday conversation
Size Isn't Everything: Spoken English, Corpus, and the Classroom
In recent papers and books, we have reported some of the findings of our research into the grammatical characteristics of the Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) (Carter, Hughes, & McCarthy, 1998; Carter & McCarthy, 1995, 1997a, 1997b; Hughes & McCarthy, 1998; McCarthy, 1998, 1999, 2001; McCarthy & Carter, 1994, 1995). CANCODE was established at the School of English Studies at University of Nottingham, in the United…
From Sentence to Discourse: Discourse Grammar and English Language Teaching
In this article we argue that there are very good reasons for developing discourse grammars for L2 teaching and exemplify the criteria for moving from sentence-based grammar to the discourse level. The criteria are based on pedagogical and descriptive problems in grammar that sentence-based approaches cannot adequately deal with. We identify key areas in which a discourse grammar might make significant contributions. These include discourse parad…
Ships fastenings: A preliminary study revisited
No abstract
Talking Back: "Small" Interactional Response Tokens in Everyday Conversation
Because many studies of small talk (and talk in general) focus on the input of main speakers, the verbal behavior of listeners is often underrepresented in descriptions of interaction. The notion of small talk as talk superfluous to transactional exigencies enables us to encompass a variety of phenomena, including phatic exchanges, relational language, and various types of insertion sequence. This article adds to this range of phenomena by examin…
There's millions of them: Hyperbole in Everyday Conversation
The Routledge handbook of corpus linguistics
A Consideration of Observational Error in Lithic Use Wear Analysis
(1982). A Consideration of Observational Error in Lithic Use Wear Analysis. Lithic Technology: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 59-63
English and Russian vague category markers in business discourse: Linguistic identity aspects
Vague category markers (hereafter VCMs), also known as general extenders, are a pervasive phenomenon of spoken discourse. They include expressions such as and things like that and or whatever. They have been studied in conversational contexts and specialised contexts (e.g. courtroom discourse, radio broadcasts) but spoken business and professional communication has received relatively less attention. Using two corpora, this article addresses: (1)…
Novelty and Usefulness Trade-Off: Cultural Cognitive Differences and Creative Idea Evaluation
Creativity and innovation have become critical organizational capabilities in today's global environment, and leveraging creative potential of employees across various cultural contexts has become increasingly important. Although recognized among researchers, cross-cultural differences in creativity are not yet well understood. We contribute to this line of research by constructing a theoretical model that focuses on cultural differences in cogni…
Accessing and interpreting corpus information in the teacher education context
As more and more teachers become aware of corpus resources and their applications, questions arise as to how best to prepare teachers in training appropriately to access and interpret corpus information. This is important as an element of materials evaluation as more and more types of materials and resources become corpus-informed. To date, relatively little attention has been given in teacher education programmes to the growing influence of corp…
Vague category markers as turn-final items in Irish English
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 convers…
Putting the Cefr to good use: Designing grammars based on learner-corpus evidence
This lecture considers what reference and pedagogical grammars and grammar teaching materials for L2 learners should ideally include, based on corpus evidence from both native-speaker and learner corpora. I demonstrate how learner corpora can be used to track the emergence of grammatical features, from the elementary level to advanced, how learners get to grips with new grammar and what we can learn from the statistical output of error-coded corp…
Size Isn't Everything: Spoken English, Corpus, and the Classroom
In recent papers and books, we have reported some of the findings of our research into the grammatical characteristics of the Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) (Carter, Hughes, & McCarthy, 1998; Carter & McCarthy, 1995, 1997a, 1997b; Hughes & McCarthy, 1998; McCarthy, 1998, 1999, 2001; McCarthy & Carter, 1994, 1995). CANCODE was established at the School of English Studies at University of Nottingham, in the United…
From Sentence to Discourse: Discourse Grammar and English Language Teaching
In this article we argue that there are very good reasons for developing discourse grammars for L2 teaching and exemplify the criteria for moving from sentence-based grammar to the discourse level. The criteria are based on pedagogical and descriptive problems in grammar that sentence-based approaches cannot adequately deal with. We identify key areas in which a discourse grammar might make significant contributions. These include discourse parad…
Riparian wildlife habitat analysis in the arid Southwestern United States
The Boghole Waterfowl Project was created in 1974 when a 60466 cu m impoundment was constructed. The reservoir was created to form the base facility for a migratory waterfowl habitat. Oblique and vertical photography was used to analyse the site's capability of supporting aquatic vegetation for wildlife habitat needs. Wildlife habitat planning requires the identification of information in three related areas: 1) habitat potential; 2) habitat requ…
A Consideration of Observational Error in Lithic Use Wear Analysis
(1982). A Consideration of Observational Error in Lithic Use Wear Analysis. Lithic Technology: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 59-63
Colorado Profiles: Men and Women Who Shaped the Centennial State
Journal Article Colorado Profiles: Men and Women Who Shaped the Centennial State Get access Colorado Profiles: Men and Women Who Shaped the Centennial State. By Monnett John H. McCarthy Michael. (Evergreen, CO: Cordillera Press, Inc., 1987. 329 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical notes, index. $14.95, paper.) Robert W. Larson Robert W. Larson University of Northern Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W…
The Origins of the Gothic Revival
Vocabulary (Language Teaching Series)
Vocabulary and Language Teaching (Applied Linguistics and Language Study Series)
Ships fastenings: A preliminary study revisited
No abstract
From Sentence to Discourse: Discourse Grammar and English Language Teaching
In this article we argue that there are very good reasons for developing discourse grammars for L2 teaching and exemplify the criteria for moving from sentence-based grammar to the discourse level. The criteria are based on pedagogical and descriptive problems in grammar that sentence-based approaches cannot adequately deal with. We identify key areas in which a discourse grammar might make significant contributions. These include discourse parad…
Size Isn't Everything: Spoken English, Corpus, and the Classroom
In recent papers and books, we have reported some of the findings of our research into the grammatical characteristics of the Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) (Carter, Hughes, & McCarthy, 1998; Carter & McCarthy, 1995, 1997a, 1997b; Hughes & McCarthy, 1998; McCarthy, 1998, 1999, 2001; McCarthy & Carter, 1994, 1995). CANCODE was established at the School of English Studies at University of Nottingham, in the United…
Good listenership made plain: British and American non-minimal response tokens in everyday conversation
England: Ceramics
Talking Back: "Small" Interactional Response Tokens in Everyday Conversation
Because many studies of small talk (and talk in general) focus on the input of main speakers, the verbal behavior of listeners is often underrepresented in descriptions of interaction. The notion of small talk as talk superfluous to transactional exigencies enables us to encompass a variety of phenomena, including phatic exchanges, relational language, and various types of insertion sequence. This article adds to this range of phenomena by examin…
There's millions of them: Hyperbole in Everyday Conversation
From Corpus to Classroom: Language Use and Language Teaching
From Corpus to Classroom summarises and makes accessible recent work in corpus research, focusing particularly on spoken data. It is based on analysis of corpora such as CANCODE and Cambridge International Corpus, and written with particular reference to the development of corpus-informed pedagogy. The book explains how corpora can be designed and used, and focuses on what they tell us about language teaching. It examines the relevance of corpora…
Accessing and interpreting corpus information in the teacher education context
As more and more teachers become aware of corpus resources and their applications, questions arise as to how best to prepare teachers in training appropriately to access and interpret corpus information. This is important as an element of materials evaluation as more and more types of materials and resources become corpus-informed. To date, relatively little attention has been given in teacher education programmes to the growing influence of corp…
Heritage Microbiology and Science: Microbes, Monuments and Maritime Materials
The Routledge handbook of corpus linguistics
Analyzing Spoken Corpora
Spoken corpora are collections of spoken texts, either in the form of transcripts alone or accompanied by audio or audiovisual recordings, stored in a computer and made available for analysis using customized software programs.
Early Port-Related Structure Studies
SS Xantho Project: Nearing completion
Lexis in spoken discourse
Putting the Cefr to good use: Designing grammars based on learner-corpus evidence
This lecture considers what reference and pedagogical grammars and grammar teaching materials for L2 learners should ideally include, based on corpus evidence from both native-speaker and learner corpora. I demonstrate how learner corpora can be used to track the emergence of grammatical features, from the elementary level to advanced, how learners get to grips with new grammar and what we can learn from the statistical output of error-coded corp…
Spoken Grammar: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
This article synthesises progress made in the description of spoken (especially conversational) grammar over the 20 years since the authors published a paper in this journal arguing for a re-thinking of grammatical description and pedagogy based on spoken corpus evidence. We begin with a glance back at the 16th century and the teaching of Latin grammar in England, with its emphasis on speaking the target language. Later grammars were dominated by…
Usage on the move: Evolution and re-volution
One of the problems involved in using corpora to investigate language change is that many corpora are synchronic, particularly spoken ones. To observe change, a combination of methods is the most fruitful approach. As well as the evidence of corpora, grammars and usage manuals of former decades and centuries reveal not only how standards of correctness and good style in relation to speaking and writing were perceived in their time, but also how s…
Vague category markers as turn-final items in Irish English
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 convers…
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