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(Brill, 2006)This chapter examines Sophocles' plays in the light of face-threat politeness theory. It deals with the subject under the following headings: face-threat politeness theory, positive politeness, negative politeness, off-record ...
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(Brill, 2009-08)This chapter discusses the dialogue between Athena and Poseidon (Euripides, Troades 48-97) in the light of face-threat politeness theory.
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The politeness of Achilles : off-record conversation strategies in Homer and the meaning of kertomia (The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2004)This article examines social interaction in Homer in the light of modern conversation analysis, especially Grice's theory of conversational implicature. Some notoriously problematic utterances are explained in terms of ...
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(Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association, 1999-05)This article discusses the 'tragic' or 'instantaneous' use of the aorist tense in ancient Greek. It argues that traditional interpretations are inadequate, since most examples are neither more 'instantaneous' nor more ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2004)The challenge of dealing with diversity within democracy and of creating a new political culture in a divided society is the starting point of this paper. Using theories of recognition, these questions are examined in ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2002)Territory and politics in Ireland and Great Britain after devolution- This paper focuses primarily on the experience of devolution in the United Kingdom. Reflecting on a number of theories that have been posited as ...
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(Routledge, 2008-10)This article uses Donald Horowitz’s theory of ethnic party competition in order to understand the development of the Northern Ireland Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) during the first decade of its existence. The ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2004)This paper argues that there has indeed been a long-standing republican political tradition in Ireland, dating perhaps from the American and French revolutions and certainly from the 1850s. Intellectually it has been less ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Social Justice, 2012-08)In this paper we use the framework developed in Equality: From Theory to Action to review some recent empirical research into caring relationships. This research shows that even within the context of care, inequality is ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2005)Sinn Féin, the party most associated in public discourse with the term “republican” in Ireland, is a party undergoing a process of development. It has been suggested that its recent electoral success would result in Sinn ...