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How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality (2022)
Journal Article
Paquette-Smith, M., Buckler, H., & Johnson, E. K. (2023). How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(3), 485-496. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221094312

When university students are asked to rate their instructors, their evaluations are often influenced by the demographic characteristics of the instructor—such as the instructor’s race, gender, or language background. These influences can manifest in... Read More about How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality.

Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom (2022)
Journal Article
NORLEDGE, J. (2022). Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom. English Studies, 103(3), 386-406

The experience of nonhuman animals is typically neglected in dystopian fiction, particularly as concerns the experiences of domestic pets. The presence of such creatures in dystopia is often notable only by their absence, with animal life (or the lac... Read More about Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom.

Militant, annoying and sexy: a corpus-based study of representations of vegans in the British press (2022)
Journal Article
Brookes, G., & Chałupnik, M. (2023). Militant, annoying and sexy: a corpus-based study of representations of vegans in the British press. Critical Discourse Studies, 20(2), 218-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2022.2055592

This article examines discourse representations of vegans in UK newspapers, comparing broadsheets with tabloids published between 2016 and 2020. Taking a corpus-based approach to CDA, we identify a series of discourses, some of which overlap between... Read More about Militant, annoying and sexy: a corpus-based study of representations of vegans in the British press.

Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour (2022)
Journal Article
Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour. Functions of Language, 29(2), 199-225. https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.21022.vil

This article considers the application of the Attitude framework (Martin & White 2005) to study the evaluation of human behaviour. The distinction between inscribed (explicit) and invoked (indirect) attitude is re-examined and systematised to better... Read More about Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour.

Social reaction to a new health threat: The perception of the Covid-19 health crisis by British and Spanish readerships (2022)
Book Chapter
Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Social reaction to a new health threat: The perception of the Covid-19 health crisis by British and Spanish readerships. In A. Musolff, R. Breeze, K. Kondo, & S. Vilar-Lluch (Eds.), Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (185-206). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232730.ch-010

Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (2022)
Book
Musolff, A., Breeze, R., Kondo, K., & Vilar-Lluch, S. (Eds.). (2022). Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232730

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health issues. Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume a... Read More about Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy.

Word order effect in collocation processing (2021)
Journal Article
Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, L., & Conklin, K. (2021). Word order effect in collocation processing. Mental Lexicon, 16(2-3), 362-396. https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.20022.vil

Collocations are words associated because of their frequent co-occurrence, which makes them predictable and leads to facilitated processing. While there have been suggestions that collocations are stored as unanalysed chunks, other researchers disagr... Read More about Word order effect in collocation processing.

Henry James "In The Minor Key" (2021)
Book Chapter
Scott, R. (2021). Henry James "In The Minor Key". In L. Buonomo (Ed.), The Sound of James. The Aural Dimension in Henry James’s Work. Papers from the 8th International Conference of the Henry James Society. Trieste, 4-6 July 2019 (17-34). Trieste, Italy: Edizioni Università di Trieste