[ Qualifications ]
[ Principal Interests ] [ Research
Supervision ]
[ Biographical
Note ] [ Current
and Recent Research ] [ Publications ]
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) in English and French,
University of Limerick, Ireland
- MA in English Language Teaching
- PhD in Applied Linguistics
Principal
Interests
- TESOL and Teacher Education
- Discourse Analysis
- Spoken Corpus Linguistics (pedagogic application)
- Sociolinguistics
Research
Supervision
I am happy
to supervise research in the above areas. I currently
co-supervise PhDs in spoken corpus linguistics and
in the teaching of reading in primary schools.
Biographical
Note
I studied English and French at Mary Immaculate College/University of Limerick, Ireland before going to work as an English Language Teacher in France. Following my stay in France, I completed an MA in English Language Teaching at the University of Limerick and worked there as both an English Language Teacher and Teacher Trainer at undergraduate and postgraduate level for seven years before going on to teach academic writing at its sister institution, Mary Immaculate College. Following the completion of my PhD which examined age and gender-related variation in spoken discourse, I spent a year working as a Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at University College Dublin. In September 2008, I took up a position as Associate Lecturer in Language Education at the University of Edinburgh where I am part of the TESOL team located in the Department
of Curriculum Research and Development. Here I teach on the MEd in TESOL as well as the MSc in Language Teaching. I am a member of various research groups: IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language), British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL), IVACS (Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies), Variational Pragmatics Network, CALS (Centre for Applied Language Studies), University of Limerick, Ireland.
Current
and Recent Research
I am currently involved in:
- The compilation
of the EDASE (Edinburgh Academic Spoken English)
Corpus with Dr Joan Cutting, University of Edinburgh
- The organisation of the Annual 2009 IVACS Symposium which is being held at Moray House, University of Edinburgh
- Research in the area of Variational Pragmatics (Variational Pragmatics Network, University of Bonn)
Recent Conferences:
- Title:
'Maybe, perhaps, kind of, sort of': Hedging and
Age and Gender Variation. Conference: 5th International
Gender and Language Association. Conference,
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Year: 3-5th July 2008.
- Title: 'Do you think the nuns
say as many prayers as you do, they do in their cuff shur they can't be
watching television and out travelling and saying prayers: the Use of Boosters
in Age-differentiated All-female Talk'.
Conference: 4th Inter-Varietal
Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) group at University of Limerick, Ireland.
Year: 13-14th June 2008.
- Title:
'I thought that she was to be honest you know,
of course it might've been in my own imagination
but I thought it was a bit too much for her like:
Age-related Examination of Hedging in an All-female
Corpus of Irish English'.
Conference: 4th International Symposium: New
Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics at the
University of Lodz, Poland. Year: 15-18th May
2008.
Publications
Selected
Publications:
Farr, F., and Murphy, B., forthcoming, Religious
references in contemporary Irish-English: 'for the love
of God almighty... I'm a holy terror for turf'. Special
Issue of International Journal of Intercultural Pragmatics.
Farr, F., Murphy, B. and O'Keeffe, A., 2003, Limerick Corpus of Irish-English: design, description and application. Teanga 21, Special Issue: 5-29.
Murphy, B., 2001. Words, Words, Words - an advanced vocabulary and how to teach
it FELT (Forum for English Language Teachers) Journal
 More
on the School's Publications Database
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