Indie Style: Reversed Forecast and a Turn-of-the-Century Aesthetic
(2020)
Book Chapter
Masters, B. (2020). Indie Style: Reversed Forecast and a Turn-of-the-Century Aesthetic. In B. Schoene (Ed.), Nicola Barker: Critical Essays (23-42). Gylphi
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The Findern Manuscript : A New Edition of the Unique Poems (2020)
Book
Martin, J. (2020). The Findern Manuscript : A New Edition of the Unique Poems. Liverpool: Liverpool University PressThe Findern Manuscript (Cambridge University Library, Ff.1.6): A New Edition of the Unique Poems is the first critical edition of the thirty-four unique and unattributed Middle English poems contained in Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.1.6. This... Read More about The Findern Manuscript : A New Edition of the Unique Poems.
Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s (2020)
Journal Article
ní Fhlathúin, M. (2020). Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s. Modern Language Review, 115(4), 809-833. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.115.4.0809As British rule in India took an increasingly Anglicist and Utilitarian-influenced turn in the 1830s, there nevertheless persisted some remnants of the Orientalist approach to Indian culture associated with the scholarship of William Jones. This essa... Read More about Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s.
The role of empirical methods in investigating readers’ constructions of authorial creativity in literary reading (2020)
Journal Article
Parente, F., Conklin, K., Guy, J. M., & Scott, R. (2021). The role of empirical methods in investigating readers’ constructions of authorial creativity in literary reading. Language and Literature, 30(1), 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947020952200The popularity of literary biographies and the importance publishers place on author publicity materials suggest the concept of an author’s creative intentions is important to readers’ appreciation of literary works. However, the question of how this... Read More about The role of empirical methods in investigating readers’ constructions of authorial creativity in literary reading.
Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded (2020)
Journal Article
Collins, C. (2020). Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded. Irish Studies Review, 28(4), 411-428. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2020.1827494This article demonstrates how two of J.M. Synge’s plays, In the Shadow of the Glen (1903) and The Playboy of the Western World (1907) document and reflect attitudes towards vagrancy and feeble-mindedness in Ireland at the dawn of the twentieth centur... Read More about Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded.
The Effect of Pre‐reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning: An Investigation of L1 and L2 Readers’ Eye Movements (2020)
Journal Article
Pellicer Sanchez, A., Conklin, K., & Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, L. (2021). The Effect of Pre‐reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning: An Investigation of L1 and L2 Readers’ Eye Movements. Language Learning, 71(1), 162-203. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12430This study examines the effect of pre-reading vocabulary instruction on learners’ attention and vocabulary gains. Participants (L1 = 92; L2 = 88) were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: pre-reading instruction, involving explicit instructio... Read More about The Effect of Pre‐reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning: An Investigation of L1 and L2 Readers’ Eye Movements.
A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, L., & Collins, . L. (2020). A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 9(2), 202-225. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.20002.jonThis research reports on newspaper representations of PrEP, a HIV-prevention drug recently made available on a trial basis to at-risk individuals in England. Using corpus-assisted queer critical discourse analysis, we investigate the linguistic repre... Read More about A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers.
Vocabulary in Language Teaching (2020)
Book
Schmitt, N., & Schmitt, D. (2020). Vocabulary in Language Teaching. (2nd). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP)Internationally recognised as one of the leading texts in its field, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to vocabulary for language teachers who would like to know more about the way vocabulary works. Two leading specialists make research... Read More about Vocabulary in Language Teaching.
Crowdsourcing Formulaic Phrases: towards a new type of spoken corpus (2020)
Journal Article
Adolphs, S., Knight, D., Smith, C., & Price, D. (2020). Crowdsourcing Formulaic Phrases: towards a new type of spoken corpus. Corpora, 15(2), 141-168. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2020.0192Corpora have revolutionised the way we describe and analyse language in use. The sheer scale of collections of texts, along with the appropriate software for structuring and analysing this data, has led to a fuller understanding of the characteristic... Read More about Crowdsourcing Formulaic Phrases: towards a new type of spoken corpus.
Language Contact in Early Medieval Britain: Settlement, Interaction, and Acculturation (2020)
Book Chapter
Findell, M., & Shaw, P. (2020). Language Contact in Early Medieval Britain: Settlement, Interaction, and Acculturation. In W. M. Ormrod, J. Story, & E. M. Tyler (Eds.), Migrants in Medieval England, c.500-c.1500 (62-89). Oxford: Oxford University Press