Professor Anne O'Keeffe
Research interests
Applied linguistics, with specialisation in the use of Corpus Linguistics to explore areas such as Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Learner Corpora, Learner Grammar and Media Discourse. Director of Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Research Centre.
For more, see Anne's Google Scholar profile; Research Gate profile; Academia profile.
IRC-AHRC Digital Humanities Project 2021-2024 - Interactional variation online: harnessing emerging technologies in the digital humanities to analyse online discourse in different workplace contexts
Recent presentations
O’Keeffe, A. (2022) “Data-driven learning and second language acquisition – it’s time to connect”. Guest Lecture presented as part of University of Queensland International Perspectives on Corpus Technology for Language Learning online seminar series, 24th March, 2022.
O’Keeffe, A. and Fitzgerald, C. (2022) "Sorry Matt, We Lost You There: A Multimodal Analysis of Virtual Meetings". Mary Immaculate College Research Week 2022, 11 February, 2022.
For full listing of conference papers and plenary/keynote talks - click here
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Publications
Books
Knight, D., O’Keeffe, A., Mark, G., Fitzgerald, C., McNamara, J., Fahey-Palma, T., Farr, F., Peraldi, S., Adolphs, S. and Cowan, B. (Under contract / 2024) Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse. London: Routledge
Pérez-Paredes, P., O’Keeffe, A. and Mark, G. (Under contract/2023) Corpus Linguistics for Language Learning Research. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
O’Keeffe, A., Clancy, B. and Adolphs, S. (2020) Introducing Pragmatics in Use. 2nd Ed. London: Routledge.
Carter, R.A., McCarthy, M. J., Mark G. and O’Keeffe, A. (2011) English Grammar Today. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Carter, R.A., McCarthy, M. J., Mark G. and O’Keeffe, A. (2011) English Grammar Today. Workbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
O’Keeffe, A., Clancy, B. and Adolphs, S. (2011) Introducing Pragmatics in Use. London: Routledge.
McCarthy, M. J., O'Keeffe, A. and Walsh, S. (2009) The Vocabulary Matrix: understanding, learning, teaching. Boston, MA: National Geographic/Cengage.
O'Keeffe, A., McCarthy, M. J. and R. A. Carter (2007) From Corpus to Classroom: language use and language teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
O'Keeffe, A. (2006) Investigating Media Discourse. London: Routledge.
Edited Books
O’Keeffe, A., Farr, F. and Chambers, A. (Eds) In Prep. / 2025. Corpora and Language Learning in theory and practice.
O’Keeffe, A. and McCarthy, M. J. (Eds.) (2022) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. 2nd Ed. London: Routledge.
O’Keeffe, A. and McCarthy, M. J. (Eds.) (2010) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. 1st Ed. London: Routledge.
Editor of Book Series
The Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics Series
The Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides Series
Guest editor of Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers (Cambridge University Press) ( title: Thornbury, Scott, (2019) 101 Grammar Questions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Journal articles
O’Keeffe, A., Knight, D., Mark, G, Fitzgerald, C., McNamara, J., Adolphs, S., Cowan, B., Fahey-Palma, T., Farr, F. and Peraldi, S. 2024. ‘We’ve lost you Ian’: Multimodal corpus innovations in capturing, processing and analysing online spoken interactions. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 12(2), 1–23.
Knight, D., O’Keeffe, A., Fitzgerald, C., Mark, G. & McNamara, J. 2024/Forthcoming. Indicating engagement in online workplace meetings: The role of backchannelling head nods. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.
Breathnach, C., O’Keeffe, A. and Ó Laoire, M. In Prep. ‘Daoine le notions’: Translanguaging-in-aicsean in an Irish-speaking community. Teanga.
Lim, J., Mark, G., Pérez-Paredes, P. & O’Keeffe, A. (2024) Exploring Part of Speech (POS)-tag sequences in a large-scale learner corpus of L2 English: A developmental perspective. Corpora, 19(1).
O'Keeffe, A. (2023) A theoretical rationale for the importance of patterning in language acquisition and the implications for data-driven learning. Nordic Journal of English Studies, 22(1), 16-41.
O’Keeffe, A. and Mark, G. (2022) Principled pattern curation to guide data-driven learning design. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 2 [Online first version]
O'Keeffe, A. (2020). Data-driven learning – a call for a broader research gaze. Language Teaching, 1-14. doi:10.1017/S0261444820000245 [online first]
O’Keeffe, A. (2011) “Teaching and Irish English”. English Today, 27(2), 57-63.
Journals edited
Ní Mhocháin, R. and O’Keeffe, A. (Eds) (2018) Corpus Pragmatics 2(4).
Becker Lopes Perna, C. and O’Keeffe, A. (Eds) (2017) Letras de Hoje: Estudos e debates em linguística, literature e língua portuguesa 52(3), special issue on “The Pragmatics of Interlanguage”.
O’Keeffe, A. and Ní Mhocháin, R. (Eds) (2017) Corpus Pragmatics 1(4), 293-295.
O'Keeffe, A. and Farr, F. (Eds) (2011) International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, special issue on “Applying Corpus Linguistics”. 16(3).
O’Keeffe, A. and Walsh, S. (Eds) (2007) Language Awareness, special issue on “Raising language awareness through analysing discourse in context”. 16(3).
Farr, F. and O’Keeffe , A. (Eds) (2004) Teanga (Yearbook of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics), special issue on “Corpora, variation and the language classroom”. 21.
Journal editorials
O’Keeffe, A. and Ní Mhocháin, R. (Eds) (2018) “Introduction”. Corpus Pragmatics 2(4), 217-219.
Ní Mhocháin, R. and O’Keeffe, A. (Eds) (2017) “Introduction”. Corpus Pragmatics 1(4): 293–295.
Becker Lopes Perna, C. and O’Keeffe, A. (2017) “The Pragmatics of Interlanguage”. Letras de Hoje: Estudos e debates em linguística, literature e língua portuguesa 52(3), 284-285.
Farr, F. and O’Keeffe, A. (2011) “Introduction”. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, special issue on “Applying Corpus Linguistics”. 16(3): 151-156.
O’Keeffe, A. and Walsh, S. (2007) “Introduction”. Language Awareness, special issue on “Raising language awareness through analysing discourse in context”. 16(3): 149-154.
Farr, F. and O’Keeffe , A. (2002) “Introduction”. Teanga (Yearbook of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics), special issue on “Corpora, variation and the language classroom”. 21. 2-5.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Fitzgerald, C., Mark, G., O'Keeffe, A., Knight, D. and McNamara, J. (Forthcoming/2024) Multi-modal considerations for social media discourse analysis: a specialised corpus of Twitter commentary on working from home. In S. Coats and V. Laippala (Eds) March of Data. London: Bloomsbury.
O'Keeffe, A. and O'Hanlon, G. (Forthcoming/2024) “It’s possible err to give me erm your online book?” - Lessons for the virtual classroom through a multimodal analysis of requests in roleplays. In A. Mehdi Riazi and A. Nazari (Eds) Adaptable English Language Teaching (ELT): Reconsidering Established Practices and Frameworks. London: Routledge.
O’Keeffe, A. and McCarthy, M. (Forthcoming/2023). Describing spoken grammar: Corpus linguistics, variety and variation. In G. Brookes and M. Mahlberg (Eds) Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. London: Bloomsbury.
O'Hanlon, G. and O'Keeffe, A. 2024. Lessons for the virtual classroom through a multimodal analysis of requests in roleplays. In A. Mehdi Riazi & A. Nazari (Eds) Adaptable English Language Teaching (ELT): Reconsidering Established Practices and Frameworks. London: Routledge.
O’Keeffe, A. (2024) 'Irish English Corpus Linguistics'. In R. Hickey (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Irish English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 243-269.
O’Keeffe, A. and McCarthy, M. (2022) ' "Of what is past, or passing, or to come": corpus linguistics, changes and challenges'. In A. O’Keeffe & M. McCarthy (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, 2nd Edn. London: Routledge, pp. 1–9.
O’Keeffe, A. and Mark, G. (2022) ' “Bloody hell, I’m grand: Adjective forms and use in spoken Irish and British English'. In C. Amador-Moreno and S. Lucak (Eds.) Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research: Papers in Honour of Jeffrey Kallen. London: Routledge, pp. 85-108.
O’Keeffe, A. (2021) ‘Data-Driven Learning, Theories of Learning and Second Language Acquisition: In search of intersections’. In P. Pérez-Paredes and G. Mark (Eds) Beyond Concordance Lines: Corpora in Language Education. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 35-55.
O’Keeffe, A. and Mark, G. (2020) “Grammar”. In D. Knight and S. Adolphs (Eds.) Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities. London: Routledge, 143-163.
Farr, F. and O’Keeffe, A. (2019) “Using corpora to analyse language”. In S. Walsh and S. Mann (Eds) Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education London: Routledge, 268-282.
O’Keeffe, A. (2018) “Corpus-based function-to-form approaches”. In A. H. Jucker, K. P. Schneider and W. Bublitz (Eds.) Methods in Pragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 587 – 618.
O’Keeffe, A. and Mark, G. (2018) “The grammars of English’. In P. Seargeant and A. Hewings (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of English Studies. London: Routledge, 136-149.
Amador-Moreno, C. P. and O’Keeffe A. (2018) He's after getting up a load of wind: a corpus-based exploration of be +after + V-ing constructions in spoken and written corpora. In Villanueva-Romero, Diana, C. P. Amador Moreno and Manuel Sánchez García (Eds.) Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 47-73.
Caines, A., McCarthy, M.J. and O’Keeffe, A. (2016) “Spoken language corpora and pedagogic applications”. In F. Farr and L. Murray (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology. London: Routledge, pp. 348 - 361.
Moloney, D. and O’Keeffe, A. (2016) “A case study in language teacher education”. In M. J. McCarthy (Eds.) The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning for Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 176-199.
Clancy, B. and O’Keeffe, A. (2015) “Pragmatics”. In D. Biber and R. Reppen, (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook on Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 235 – 251.
Vaughan, E. and O’Keeffe, A. (2015) “Corpus Analysis”. In K. Tracy, C. Ilie and T. Sandel (Eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, Denver, CO: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 252-268.
Cheng, W. and O’Keeffe, A. (2015) “Vague Language”. In K. Aijmer and C. Rühlemann (Eds.) Corpus Pragmatics: A Handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.686-869.
McCarthy, M.J. and O’Keeffe, A. (2014) “Spoken Grammar”. In M. Celce-Murcia, D. M. Brinton, & M. A. Snow (Eds.) Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (4th ed.). Boston, MA: National Geographic/Cengage, pp. 271 - 287.
O’Keeffe, A. and Farr, F. (2012) “Using Language Corpora in Language Teacher Education: pedagogic, linguistic and cultural insights”. D. Biber and R. Reppen, (Eds.) Corpus Linguistics (Volume 4): Methods and Applications. London: Sage, 335- 365.
Clancy, B. and O’Keeffe, A. (2012) “Using a corpus to enhance pragmatic awareness”. In M. D. García-Pastor (Ed.) Teaching English as a Foreign Language: Proposals for the language classroom. Catarroja, València: Perifèric, pp. 27-60.
McCarthy, M.J. and O’Keeffe, A. (2012) “Analysing Speech Corpora”. In T. Cobb (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp.104-112.
O'Keeffe, A., (2012) “Corpora and Media Studies”. In K. Hyland, M. H. Chau and M. Handford (Eds.) Corpus Applications in Applied Linguistics. London: Continuum, pp. 117-131.
McCarthy, M.J. and O’Keeffe, A. (2012) “Competencies Explored and Exposed: Grammar, Lexis, Communication and the Notion of Levels”. In T. Summer and M. Eisenmann (Eds.) Basic Issues in EFL-Teaching and Learning. Heidelberg Universitätsverlag Winter, pp. 55-67.
O’Keeffe, A. (2012) “Vocabulary Instruction”. In A. Burns and J. Richards (Eds.) The Cambridge Guide to Pedagogy and Practice in Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 236-245.
O’Keeffe, A. (2011) “Media and Discourse Analysis”. In J. P. Gee and M. Handford (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. London: Routledge, pp. 441-454.
O’Keeffe, A. (2011) “The Media”. In J. Simpson (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics. London: Routledge, pp. 67-80.
O'Keeffe, A. and McCarthy, M. J. (2010) “Historical perspective: what are corpora and how have they evolved?” In A. O’Keeffe and M.J. McCarthy (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. London: Routledge, pp. 3-13.
O’Keeffe, A. and Adolphs, S. (2008) “Response tokens in British and Irish English”. In K.P. Schneider and A. Barron (Eds.) Variational Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 69-98.
McCarthy, M.J. and O'Keeffe, A. (2008) “Corpora and the Study of Spoken Language”. In A, Ludeling, M. Kytö and T. McEnery (Eds.), Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 1-16.
Walsh, S., O'Keeffe, A., & McCarthy, M. (2008) “ ‘…post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on so forth’ – vague language in academic discourse, a comparative analysis of form, function and context”. In R. Reppen and A. Ädel (Eds.),Corpora and Discourse (SCL31). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 9-29.
Walsh, S. and O’Keeffe, A. (2007) “Applying CA to a modes analysis of third-level spoken academic discourse”. In H. Bowles, and P. Seedhouse (Eds.) Conversation Analysis and Languages for Specific Purposes. Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 101-139.
Evison , J., McCarthy, M.J. and O’Keeffe, A. (2007). “ ‘Looking out for love and all the rest of it’: vague category markers as shared social space”. In J. Cutting (Ed.) Vague Language Explored. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp.138-157.
O’Keeffe, A. and Breen, M. (2007) “ ‘At the hands of the Brothers: a corpus-based lexico-grammatical analysis of stance in newspaper reporting of child sexual abuse”. In J. Cotterill (Ed.) The Language of Sex Crimes. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 217-236.
McCarthy, M.J. and O’Keeffe, A. (2006) “Second Language Speaking”. In K. Brown (Ed.) Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 95-101.
O'Keeffe, A., (2005) “ ‘You’ve a daughter yourself?’: a corpus-based look at lexico-grammatical choices and pragmatic effects in question forms in an Irish radio phone-in”. In K.P. Schneider and A. Barron (Eds) The Pragmatics of Irish English, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 339-366.
O’Keeffe, A. (2004) “‘Like the wise virgins and all that jazz’ – using a corpus to examine vague language and shared knowledge”. In U. Connor and T. Upton (Eds) Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 1-20.
McCarthy, M. and O'Keeffe, A. (2003) “‘What's in a name?’ - vocatives in casual conversations and radio phone-in calls”. In P. Leistyna and C. Meyer (Eds) Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 153-185.
O’Keeffe, A. and Binchy, J. (2003) “Reading and writing at university – raising genre awareness as initiation into a discourse community”. In G. Shiel and U. Ní Dhálaigh (Eds) Other Ways of Seeing: Diversity in Language and Literacy. Dublin: Reading Association of Ireland, pp. 220-228.
Brosnan, G., O'Keeffe, A. and Binchy, J. (2003) “Feeding back feedback - towards a cyclical model for learner support”. In R. Tormey (Ed.) Teaching Social Justice: Intercultural and Development Education Perspectives on Education’s Context, Content and Methods. Dublin and Limerick: Irish Aid and Centre for Educational Disadvantage Research, pp. 191-199.
Farr, F. and O’Keeffe, A. (2002). “Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: an intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction”. In R. Reppen, S. Fitzmaurice and D. Biber, (Eds) Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 25-48.
O'Keeffe, A. (2002) “Exploring indices of national identity in a corpus of radio phone-in data from Irish radio”. In: A. Sánchez Macarro (Ed.) Windows on the World: Media Discourse in English, Valencia: Universidad de Valencia, pp. 91-113.
O'Keeffe, A. (2000) “Exploring television as an exponent of pragmatic and sociocultural information in foreign language learning”. In T. Lewis and A. Rouxeville (Eds)., Technology and the Advanced Language Learner, London: CILT, pp. 23-52.
O'Keeffe, A. (2000) “Undergraduate Academic Writing: an analysis of errors and weaknesses in syntax, lexis, style and structure”. In G. Shiel, U. Ní Dhálaigh and E. Kennedy (Eds.), Language and Literacy for the New Millennium. Dublin: Reading Association of Ireland, pp. 167-186.
Reports
Pérez-Paredes, P., Mark, G. and O’Keeffe, A. (2020) “The impact of usage-based approaches on second language learning and teaching”. Cambridge Education Research Reports. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ring, E., Mhic Mhathúna, M., Moloney, M., Hayes, N., Breathnach, D., Stafford, P., Carswell, D., Keegan, S., Kelleher, C., McCafferty, D., O’Keeffe, A., Leavy, A., Madden, R. and Ozonyia, M. (2017) An examination of concepts of school readiness among parents and educators in Ireland. Dublin: Department of Children and Youth Affairs.
Denny, E., Brosnan, G., O’Keeffe, A., Denny, E., Farr, F., Risquez, A., Hoyne, S., Fitzgerald, M., Ryan, M.F. (2015) Transitions from Second Level and Further Education to Third Level. Focused Research Report No. 6., funded by The National Form for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
O’Keeffe, A., Binchy, B. and Healy, C. 2008. Evaluation of interventions and supports to alleviate educational disadvantage in three County Limerick schools. Report to Limerick County Vocational Education Committee.
O’Keeffe, A. and Breen, M. 2001, At the hands of the Brothers: A corpus-based lexico-grammatical analysis of stance in newspaper reporting of child sexual abuse cases involving the Irish Christian Brothers 1998-2000. Report to the Laffoy Commission on Child Sexual Abuse/The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse.
Breen, M. and O’Keeffe, A. 2001, Framing the Past: the reporting of the Christian Brothers in the Irish Media, 1998-2000. Report to the Laffoy Commission on Child Sexual Abuse/The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse.
Online database
O’Keeffe, A. and Mark, G. (2015) The English Grammar Profile. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
