'Bloody hell, I'm grand': Adjectives in Spoken Irish and British English

O'Keeffe, Anne and Mark, Geraldine 2021. 'Bloody hell, I'm grand': Adjectives in Spoken Irish and British English. Lucek, Stephen and Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., eds. Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research: Papers in Honour of Dr Jeffrey L. Kallen, Taylor and Francis, pp. 85-109. (10.4324/9781003025078-5)

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Abstract

This chapter discusses a case for the close study of adjective forms themselves across varieties of spoken English. Adjectives have received scant coverage in the study of language varieties in comparison with other major word classes, though studies of adjective intensifiers have been shown to be viable when examining varieties and variation. The study most resonant with the present investigation is Wagner. Using a bottom-up corpus linguistic approach, it highlights patterns of amplifier-adjective bigrams in the Corpus of Global Web-Based English and observes some trends of change. The frequency lists for LCIE and the BNC were first examined closely so as to identify their functions using concordance line searches and the results list was ‘cleaned’ of items that were erroneously tagged. Methodologically, it is important to look at relative frequency and distribution. Sometimes items appear to be frequent but are generated by a small number of conversations and not evenly distributed across the whole corpus.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
ISBN:	9781003025078
Last Modified:	05 Mar 2024 14:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/166808

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