The use of the discourse-pragmatic marker ‘like’ by native and non-native speakers of English in Ireland

Diskin, Chloe

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2017.08.004

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“…The data for the present study comes from a corpus of audiorecorded, semi-structured interviews conducted by the author with 45 migrants (23 Polish and 22 Chinese), as part of a broader, sociolinguistic study on language, migration and identity by migrants in Ireland (see Diskin, 2017;Diskin and Regan, 2017). Four of these migrants were second generation (born in Ireland to either Polish or Chinese parents); two were Generation 1.5 (see Ryu, 1991) and had moved to Ireland as children from Poland or China; and the remaining 39 migrants were first generation, who had moved to Ireland as adults, with lengths of residence ranging from 1 to 20 years (the majority were in Ireland 10 years or less).…”

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New Speakers in the Irish Context: Heritage Language Maintenance Among Multilingual Migrants in Dublin, Ireland

Diskin

2020

Front. Educ.

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A migrant "boom" in Ireland in the 2000s led to a 143% increase in non-Irish nationals, marking a shift from the country's predominantly monocultural past, to a future that is multicultural, and by extension, multilingual. This report focuses on the Polish and Chinese communities in Dublin, Ireland, investigating individuals' and families' attitudes toward heritage language maintenance and transmission, and the strategies and practices they employed. Drawing on recorded semi-structured interviews with 45 migrants, a content analysis reveals that heritage language maintenance is of paramount importance for first, second and "Generation 1.5" migrants. Many parents send their children to weekend schools. Differences emerge, however, in the two communities' views of the utility and value of the heritage language. Polish migrants' discourse centers on the importance of the language for sustaining ties with extended family, particularly when return migration is a possibility; whereas Chinese migrants focus on the economic benefits of competence in Chinese, which is viewed as a passport to more attractive job opportunities in Asia. All participants report using their heritage language on a daily basis, and place strong emphasis on maintaining literacy, through print and digital media. Social media sites also enable migrants to communicate through their heritage language and maintain a sense of community, either through direct interaction or "passive monitoring" of others. This global inter-connectedness allows migrants to view their linguistic competence not as bilingualism per se, but as a repertoire of "mobile resources," significantly widening the scope of what could be termed a "digital classroom."

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New Speakers in the Irish Context: Heritage Language Maintenance Among Multilingual Migrants in Dublin, Ireland

Diskin

2020

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“…Pragmatically, pragmatic markers have been widely studied from different perspectives and domains. For example, pragmatic markers, as used in teaching and learning languages [7][8][9] used by immigrants [10] as used in casual discourse [11], as used in scientific text [12], relation between discourse markers and politeness [13], the acquisition of discourse markers [14], and pragmatic borrowing [15]. The conditional pragmatic marker Insha'Allah can be studied from the pragmatic perspective, especially the theory of speech acts.…”

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The Illocutionary Speech Acts of Insha’Allah: Pragmatic analysis of teachers talks in daily school activities

Al-Rawafi¹,

Gunawan²

2019

Proceedings of the 3rd Asian Education Symposium (AES 2018)

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However Insha'Allah is a compulsory marker in Muslims' talks to make future plans and promises, Muslims, in recent days, have different perspectives on when, where, how, and to whom they use Insha'Allah. The present study was aimed to explore the illocutionary acts of the conditional pragmatic marker (CPM) Insha'Allah in teachers' talks. The study uses a descriptive qualitative method to describe the research data; teachers' talks on social media. The results showed that the CPM Insha'Allah in teachers' talk has different illocutionary forces: commissives, assertive, directive, and expressive. CPM is a multipurpose expression in different contexts of teachers' talks and the possibility of the illocutionary force is varying according to the speakers' faith background and the understanding of the expression itself. As the speech act with which the CPM is most frequently associated is that of promising: the effect or the perlocutionary act of Insha'Allah is depend on the close relationship between the interlocutor and the listener, the context of utterance, and when referring to an event which will undoubtedly occur in the future. The misuse of the CPM Insha'Allah between the interlocutor and listener Insha'Allah leads to face-threatening act; e.g. fail to promise.

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“…More recent studies have also specifically focused on the accommodation of like by L2-speakers of English living in Ireland. These are Nestor et al (2012), Nestor and Regan (2015), Magliacane (2016) and Diskin (2017). The first two studies analyse the English language produced by Polish immigrants in Ireland.…”

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Second language pragmatics: a corpus-based study of the pragmatic marker like

Santos¹

2019

Letronica

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This paper presents the extent to which like is used as a pragmatic marker (PM) by Brazilian university students living in Ireland. This is a case study which is part of a broader PhD research project on L2 pragmatic development within a study-abroad context. The results and reflections of this study are based on a sample corpus of spoken language, which comprises four 30-minute informal interactions between 6 participants and the researcher. Drawing on the Limerick Corpus of Irish English, a representative corpus of spoken Irish English (IrE), the interpersonal functions and procedural meanings of the PM like in the participants’ L2 are compared and contrasted against those of the IrE data. Quantitatively, the PM like is found to be a keyword in the L2 corpus and three times more frequent by comparison to the IrE data. Qualitatively, this study shows evidence of like being used multifunctionally by the L2-speakers of English, with all functions of the PM also previously described in the literature on IrE. However, some specific functional patterns also emerge from the L2 data, which indicates the pragmatic needs and linguistic demands which may arise during communication when using an L2.***Pragmática da segunda língua: um estudo de corpus do marcador pragmático like***Este artigo apresenta a extensão com que like é usado como marcador pragmático (MP) por brasileiros universitários na Irlanda. Este é um estudo de caso, e parte de um projeto de pesquisa de doutorado sobre o desenvolvimento da pragmática da segunda língua (L2) no contexto de intercâmbio. Os resultados e reflexões deste estudo são embasados em uma amostra de um corpus de língua falada, que é constituído de quatro interações informais de 30 minutos entre 6 participantes e o pesquisador. Tendo como referência o Limerick Corpus of Irish English, um corpus representativo do inglês irlandês falado, as funções interpessoais e os significados procedurais do MP like usados pelos participantes são comparados e contrastados. Quantitativamente, o MP like se encontra como uma palavra-chave no corpus de L2, e é três vezes mais frequente se comparado com os dados do inglês irlandês. Qualitativamente, este estudo evidencia a multifuncionalidade de like na L2 dos participantes, sendo todas as funções usadas pelos participantes também previamente descritas na literatura sobre o inglês irlandês. Contudo, alguns padrões funcionais específicos também emergem do corpus de L2, o que indica as necessidades pragmáticas e exigências linguísticas que podem surgir durante a comunicação quando usando uma L2.

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The use of the discourse-pragmatic marker ‘like’ by native and non-native speakers of English in Ireland

Cited by 63 publications

References 28 publications

New Speakers in the Irish Context: Heritage Language Maintenance Among Multilingual Migrants in Dublin, Ireland

New Speakers in the Irish Context: Heritage Language Maintenance Among Multilingual Migrants in Dublin, Ireland

The Illocutionary Speech Acts of Insha’Allah: Pragmatic analysis of teachers talks in daily school activities

Second language pragmatics: a corpus-based study of the pragmatic marker like

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