170
(6.17 TC)
Look at the television sit down Patrick Martin Gerard sit
down there good boys
can you see all of the television son?
Yeah.
That’s the good boy yeah.
Now
. Don’t go out in the rain sure ye won’t.
I can’t.
Again, this distinctive use of
now
suggests a metacomment on what the father has just
completed. The corpora employed in this study cannot provide reliable quantitative
evidence of this function of
now
despite the fact that its appearance in the data, and the
qualitative evidence of its function provided, suggest that it is ripe for further research
using larger corpora of Irish English.
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