Brian Clancy
Biographic Data
| ID | 213904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Clancy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Clancy |
| SIGNATURE | CLANCY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mary Immaculate College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5912-5359 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Representations of LGBT people in Vietnamese online newspapers: A corpus-assisted critical discourse study
While corpus linguistic research on gender and sexuality is prevalent in English-speaking media contexts, it remains underexplored in others, such as in the Vietnamese media. This study employs a c.390,000-word corpus of Vietnamese online news articles to investigate the discursive representation of LGBT individuals. We first discuss the methodological challenges of working with a corpus of Vietnamese and how these may be overcome. Then, through …
Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multi-modal and sociolinguistic perspectives, edited by Kate Beeching, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen, and Anna Piasecki
There as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English
The upper ranks of corpus word frequency lists are primarily populated by functional items, as well as by other small words characterised by their polysemy that reward focussed attention and research. Exploring these items has resulted in rich and fruitful insights from a corpus pragmatic perspective. This paper focuses on the nature and value of there as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English (IrE). We focus on intimate discourse (i.e., t…
Conflict in corpora: Investigating family conflict sequences using a corpus pragmatic approach
The analysis of conflict in family discourse has often been characterised by ethnographic approaches and/or fine-grained analysis of unique conflict episodes. This article, by contrast, uses a c.175,000-word spoken corpus of Irish family discourse, in conjunction with a corpus pragmatic approach, to explore specific linguistic aspects of conflict discourse. Conflict episodes are identified and analysed in the corpus using a range of linguistic “h…
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…
Investigating Intimate Discourse: Exploring the spoken interaction of families, couples and friends
Intimate discourse – that between couples, family and close friends in private, non-professional settings – lies at the heart of our everyday linguistic experience. It creates and sustains our closest relationships. Using an innovative blend of the community of practice model with a corpus linguistic methodology, Brian Clancy expertly reveals the patterns that characterise the shared linguistic repertoire of intimates. Corpus methods such as freq…
Complementary perspectives on hedging behaviour in family discourse: The analytical synergy of variational pragmatics and corpus linguistics
This paper argues that corpus linguistics offers a methodology which benefits variational pragmatic analysis in a number of ways. Corpus linguistic tools such as word frequency lists allow the researcher to construct a detailed “pragmatic profile” of a word, cluster or act. This, coupled with the fact that most corpora are constructed to be representative of a particular language variety, facilitates an accurate account of language-use difference…
The pragmatics of Irish English: The use of English in Ireland shows specific features which contribute to its unique profile
The utterance It's raining (of great relevance to the Irish!) can have a variety of different meanings according to who says it, to whom one is talking, and where it is said, amongst other things. The fact that language in use (whether in spoken or written mode) is obviously much more than the sum of its constituent parts - the individual sounds that make up words, the combinations of words that create sentences or utterances, the meaning that ca…
The pragmatics of Irish English: The use of English in Ireland shows specific features which contribute to its unique profile
The utterance It's raining (of great relevance to the Irish!) can have a variety of different meanings according to who says it, to whom one is talking, and where it is said, amongst other things. The fact that language in use (whether in spoken or written mode) is obviously much more than the sum of its constituent parts - the individual sounds that make up words, the combinations of words that create sentences or utterances, the meaning that ca…
Complementary perspectives on hedging behaviour in family discourse: The analytical synergy of variational pragmatics and corpus linguistics
This paper argues that corpus linguistics offers a methodology which benefits variational pragmatic analysis in a number of ways. Corpus linguistic tools such as word frequency lists allow the researcher to construct a detailed “pragmatic profile” of a word, cluster or act. This, coupled with the fact that most corpora are constructed to be representative of a particular language variety, facilitates an accurate account of language-use difference…
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…
There as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English
The upper ranks of corpus word frequency lists are primarily populated by functional items, as well as by other small words characterised by their polysemy that reward focussed attention and research. Exploring these items has resulted in rich and fruitful insights from a corpus pragmatic perspective. This paper focuses on the nature and value of there as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English (IrE). We focus on intimate discourse (i.e., t…
Complementary perspectives on hedging behaviour in family discourse: The analytical synergy of variational pragmatics and corpus linguistics
This paper argues that corpus linguistics offers a methodology which benefits variational pragmatic analysis in a number of ways. Corpus linguistic tools such as word frequency lists allow the researcher to construct a detailed “pragmatic profile” of a word, cluster or act. This, coupled with the fact that most corpora are constructed to be representative of a particular language variety, facilitates an accurate account of language-use difference…
The pragmatics of Irish English: The use of English in Ireland shows specific features which contribute to its unique profile
The utterance It's raining (of great relevance to the Irish!) can have a variety of different meanings according to who says it, to whom one is talking, and where it is said, amongst other things. The fact that language in use (whether in spoken or written mode) is obviously much more than the sum of its constituent parts - the individual sounds that make up words, the combinations of words that create sentences or utterances, the meaning that ca…
Investigating Intimate Discourse: Exploring the spoken interaction of families, couples and friends
Intimate discourse – that between couples, family and close friends in private, non-professional settings – lies at the heart of our everyday linguistic experience. It creates and sustains our closest relationships. Using an innovative blend of the community of practice model with a corpus linguistic methodology, Brian Clancy expertly reveals the patterns that characterise the shared linguistic repertoire of intimates. Corpus methods such as freq…
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…
Conflict in corpora: Investigating family conflict sequences using a corpus pragmatic approach
The analysis of conflict in family discourse has often been characterised by ethnographic approaches and/or fine-grained analysis of unique conflict episodes. This article, by contrast, uses a c.175,000-word spoken corpus of Irish family discourse, in conjunction with a corpus pragmatic approach, to explore specific linguistic aspects of conflict discourse. Conflict episodes are identified and analysed in the corpus using a range of linguistic “h…
There as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English
The upper ranks of corpus word frequency lists are primarily populated by functional items, as well as by other small words characterised by their polysemy that reward focussed attention and research. Exploring these items has resulted in rich and fruitful insights from a corpus pragmatic perspective. This paper focuses on the nature and value of there as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English (IrE). We focus on intimate discourse (i.e., t…
Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multi-modal and sociolinguistic perspectives, edited by Kate Beeching, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen, and Anna Piasecki
Representations of LGBT people in Vietnamese online newspapers: A corpus-assisted critical discourse study
While corpus linguistic research on gender and sexuality is prevalent in English-speaking media contexts, it remains underexplored in others, such as in the Vietnamese media. This study employs a c.390,000-word corpus of Vietnamese online news articles to investigate the discursive representation of LGBT individuals. We first discuss the methodological challenges of working with a corpus of Vietnamese and how these may be overcome. Then, through …
Linguistics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Irish (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Corpus linguistics (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works)