ABSTRACT
This chapter explores intimate discourse through a consideration of a number of these previous studies. In order to incorporate seminal research in the field and facilitate initial commentary, very broadly, organised the studies under two headings namely interaction analysis and corpus analysis. Their work draws upon many aspects of linguistic research such as work in linguistic anthropology and the ethnography of communication, frame theory and dimensions of power and solidarity and these will be more fully explored in this section. Carter explores the connection between linguistic creativity and social context using the five-million-word Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE). The Limerick Corpus of Irish English (LCIE) is a one-million-word corpus of contemporary spoken Irish English. However, it is the frequency information provided by the corpus analysis software that provides us with the focus of analysis and in this sense the study is simultaneously corpus-driven.
