Outputs (558)

What is Hate Speech? The Case for a Corpus Approach (2023)
Journal Article
Lepoutre, M., Vilar-Lluch, S., Borg, E., & Hansen, N. (2024). What is Hate Speech? The Case for a Corpus Approach. Criminal Law and Philosophy, 18, 397_430. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-023-09675-7

Contemporary public discourse is saturated with speech that vilifies and incites hatred or violence against vulnerable groups. The term “hate speech” has emerged in legal circles and in ordinary language to refer to these communicative acts. But lega... Read More about What is Hate Speech? The Case for a Corpus Approach.

The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Vilar-Lluch, S., McClaughlin, E., Knight, D., Adolphs, S., & Nichele, E. (in press). The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19. Medical Humanities, 49(3), 487-496. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012583

Understanding what makes communication effective when designing public health messages is of key importance. This applies in particular to vaccination campaigns, which aim to encourage vaccine uptake and respond to vaccine hesitancy and dispel any my... Read More about The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19.

Communicating health threats: Linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging during the Covid-19 pandemic (2023)
Report
Adolphs, S., McAuley, D., Vilar-Lluch, S., Knight, D., McClaughlin, E., Nichele, E., …Lang, A. (2023). Communicating health threats: Linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nottingham: University of Nottingham

On the Blob. Millennials and Gen-Zs Talk Menstrual Health (2023)
Report
Koshy, G., Thomas, F., McClaughlin, E., Barber, K., & Sun, X. (2023). On the Blob. Millennials and Gen-Zs Talk Menstrual Health. Norwich: Thrive Words That Change Lives and University of Nottingham

Modern tragedy (2023)
Book
Moran, J. (2023). Modern tragedy. Bloomsbury Publishing

What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different locations during the 20th century? Partly motivated by... Read More about Modern tragedy.

The Labour of Theatre: 1900-1950 (2023)
Book Chapter
Sutherland, L. (in press). The Labour of Theatre: 1900-1950. In C. Cochrane, L. Goddard, C. Hindson, & T. Reid (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre and Performance. Volume One: 1900-1950. Routledge

Ink not mink: Discourses of Masculinity in Animal Rights Campaigns (2023)
Book Chapter
Brookes, G., & Chałupnik, M. (2023). Ink not mink: Discourses of Masculinity in Animal Rights Campaigns. In M. McGlashan, & J. Mercer (Eds.), Toxic Masculinity: Men, Meaning, and Digital Media (87-109). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263883-7

This chapter examines how discourses around masculinity are invoked in animal rights campaigns. We taking as our data source two parallel campaigns produced by the animal rights group, PETA: the “I'd rather go naked” campaign and the “Ink not mink” c... Read More about Ink not mink: Discourses of Masculinity in Animal Rights Campaigns.

Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres (2023)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. (2023). Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres. English Language and Linguistics, 27(2), 241-269. https://doi.org/10.1017/s136067432200034x

This article provides a corpus-driven overview of the ‘epistemic space’ surrounding the use of two lockwords of Early and Late Modern writings on midwifery and childbirth, child and uterus. Rather than searching for epistemic stance markers themselve... Read More about Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres.

The language of dystopia (2022)
Book
Norledge, J. (2022). The language of dystopia. Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93103-2

Takes an innovative approach to categorising the dystopian genre Provides the first comprehensive stylistic analysis of 21st century dystopian literature Includes a discussion of dystopia across evolving and emerging platforms such as video gam... Read More about The language of dystopia.

Ambiguity Resolution in Passivized Idioms: Is There a Shift in the Most Likely Interpretation? (2022)
Journal Article
Kyriacou, M., Conklin, K., & Thompson, D. (2023). Ambiguity Resolution in Passivized Idioms: Is There a Shift in the Most Likely Interpretation?. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(3), 212–226. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000300

Ambiguous but canonical idioms (kick the bucket) are processed fast in both their figurative (“die”) and literal (“boot the pail”) senses, although processing costs associated with meaning integration may emerge in postidiom regions. Modified version... Read More about Ambiguity Resolution in Passivized Idioms: Is There a Shift in the Most Likely Interpretation?.