Events Organized by Stephen Lucek
Member of the organizing committee for the 6th Sociolinguistics Summer School at the University o... more Member of the organizing committee for the 6th Sociolinguistics Summer School at the University of Dublin - Trinity College.
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Papers by Stephen Lucek
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Journal of Language and Discrimination
The current paper aims to address how one English-medium school functions from the different pers... more The current paper aims to address how one English-medium school functions from the different perspectives within the school: the principal, student/teacher classroom interaction and the students. This approach allows us to see the power differential of the different stakeholders in a school and how iconisation, fractal recursivity, and erasure affect teenagers in Dublin. This paper presents interview data with a principal and the students in a secondary school. Taking a qualitative approach to these data, I show that standard language ideology is linked with economic disadvantage. The school principal’s approach to identifying, problematising and seeking to eliminate certain types of nonstandard language in the school reflects a standard language ideology and is consistent with a raciolinguistic approach to linguistic discrimination. The data suggest that the students themselves take a more nuanced approach.
Cognitive Contact Linguistics, 2018
Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research
Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research
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The current paper offers a novel methodological approach to gathering rich spatial data from Iris... more The current paper offers a novel methodological approach to gathering rich spatial data from Irish English speakers, showing variation in the cognition of physical and conceptual space. A mixed method study was conducted to gather conceptual and sociolinguistic data. This includes the first part of the data gathering: a structured interview, focusing on geographic aspects of the town and two wayfinding exercises. I then describe the second part of the study: twenty cloze procedure questions relating to a written example, followed by questions relating to seventeen hand-drawn images. I take as a baseline the instruments used by, inter alia, Levinson and Wilkins (2006a) and apply them to a within-culture study. I conclude this paper by discussing replicability and future studies. While Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) offers researchers a model to connect physical and conceptual elements of space, we have not seen a large-scale study of how CMT affects the language of space in varieties of English.
As metaphor research has developed since Lakoff & Johnson (1980), the focus has shifted from desc... more As metaphor research has developed since Lakoff & Johnson (1980), the focus has shifted from describing metaphors to applying Conceptual Metaphor Theory to other areas of linguistic research. In particular, recent research into variation in how cultures use these metaphors has flourished. The present study examines how 20 participants who live in the same town in Ireland conceptualise that town. Participants who were born in the town use different strategies for conceptualising their town and how they travel towards and within it than participants who are not originally from the town. The type of metaphor used in conceptualisations of this town is also affected by age and place of birth.
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Since the pioneering work of Schiffrin,1 the study of discourse markers has progressed considerab... more Since the pioneering work of Schiffrin,1 the study of discourse markers has progressed considerably. While this progression has covered discourse-markers in general, there has been measurably less investigation into specific utterance-final discourse markers: Invariant Tags (InTs). Some InTs are indicative of the varieties of English in which they are most prevalent (e.g. Canadian ‘Eh’, Singapore English ‘Lah’) while others are fairly common amongst varieties of English. Through corpus analysis this study investigates what exactly InTs are, which InTs occur in Irish English and how Irish English use of InTs compares to that of other varieties of English worldwide. A qualitative analysis of InTs extends the existing definition of InTs and describes the functions of InTs, while a quantitative analysis of the InTs of Irish English is compared with those of the five varieties of English described by Columbus,2 with conclusions drawn from that comparison.
Research in sociolinguistics has to date predominantly dealt with (so-called) monolingual context... more Research in sociolinguistics has to date predominantly dealt with (so-called) monolingual contexts and spatially fixed populations. However, with the growing focus on globalization, hybridity, identity construction and authenticity in the humanities and social sciences, there is renewed interest in what bilingual and multilingual populations do with their linguistic resources in contexts characterized by processes of mobility.
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Events Organized by Stephen Lucek
https://sss6dublin.wordpress.com/
Papers by Stephen Lucek
https://sss6dublin.wordpress.com/