Brian Clancy

List of John Benjamins publications for which Brian Clancy plays a role.

Articles

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,… read more
Rühlemann, Christoph and Brian Clancy 2018 Corpus linguistics and pragmaticsPragmatics and its Interfaces, Ilie, Cornelia and Neal R. Norrick (eds.), pp. 241–266 | Chapter
Pragmatics and corpus linguistics were long considered mutually exclusive. In recent years, however, common ground has been discovered thus paving the way for the new field of corpus pragmatics. This chapter shows that corpus pragmatics integrates the qualitative methodology typical of pragmatics… read more
The data for this chapter comprises two corpora representing the intimate genre collected in the home/family environment: one from a middle class Irish family and one from a family belonging to the Irish Traveller community, an ethnic minority group accounting for less than 1% of the Irish… read more
Clancy, Brian and Elaine Vaughan 2012 “It’s lunacy now”: A corpus-based pragmatic analysis of the use of ‘now’ in contemporary Irish EnglishNew Perspectives on Irish English, Migge, Bettina and Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds.), pp. 225–246 | Article
This paper contributes to the characterisation of the pragmatic system of Irish English through a corpus-based examination of the item now. Comparative corpus frequency data confirm the saliency of now in Irish English, highlighting the need for a more nuanced investigation. This investigation… read more
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… read more