J.M. Synge and the time of his life
(2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Collins, C. (2017, October). J.M. Synge and the time of his life. Presented at Irish Time?: Temporalities in Irish Literature and Culture
Outputs (50)
Reading collocations in an L2: do collocation processing benefits extend to non-adjacent collocations? (2017)
Journal Article
Schmitt, N., & Vilkaitė, L. (2019). Reading collocations in an L2: do collocation processing benefits extend to non-adjacent collocations?. Applied Linguistics, 40(2), 329–354. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amx030Various studies have consistently shown that collocations are processed faster than matched control phrases, both in L1 and in L2. Most of these studies focused on adjacent collocations (e.g., provide information). However, research in corpus linguis... Read More about Reading collocations in an L2: do collocation processing benefits extend to non-adjacent collocations?.
Consolidating the Shakespeare canon 1640-1740 (2017)
Book Chapter
Kirwan, P. (2017). Consolidating the Shakespeare canon 1640-1740. In E. Depledge, & P. Kirwan (Eds.), Canonising Shakespeare: stationers and the book trade, 1640-1740. Cambridge University Press
Medieval Scottish poetry (2017)
Journal Article
Royan, N. (in press). Medieval Scottish poetry. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199846719-0129
Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, L., Mills, S., Paterson, L. L., Turner, G., & Coffey-Glover, L. (2017). Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships. Gender and Language, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.27916This article demonstrates the continued prevalence of traditional, heteronormative practices regarding marriage and naming practices in Britain, and also considers the complex choices made by same-sex couples who marry in relation to whether there ar... Read More about Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships.
Input matters: speed of word recognition in 2-year-olds exposed to multiple accents (2017)
Journal Article
Buckler, H., Oczak-Arsik, S., Siddiqui, N., & Johnson, E. K. (in press). Input matters: speed of word recognition in 2-year-olds exposed to multiple accents. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.06.017Although studies investigating language abilities in young children exposed to more than one language have become common, there is still surprisingly little research examining language development in children exposed to more than one accent. Here, we... Read More about Input matters: speed of word recognition in 2-year-olds exposed to multiple accents.
Performing rural spaces in urban places: memory and affective nostalgia (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Collins, C. (2017, July). Performing rural spaces in urban places: memory and affective nostalgia. Presented at Unstable Geographies: Multiple Theatricalities: International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) 2017
“Our biggest killer”: multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press (2017)
Journal Article
Brookes, G., Harvey, K., Chadborn, N., & Dening, T. (2018). “Our biggest killer”: multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press. Social Semiotics, 28(3), 371-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2017.1345111A recent (2016) Office for National Statistics report stated that dementia is now “the leading cause of death” in England and Wales. Ever fixated with the syndrome (an unfailingly newsworthy topic), the British press was quick to respond to the bulle... Read More about “Our biggest killer”: multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press.
Quantifying the Scandinavian contribution to the vocabulary of Middle English microtoponyms from Wirral and Westmorland (2017)
Book Chapter
Rye, E. (2017). Quantifying the Scandinavian contribution to the vocabulary of Middle English microtoponyms from Wirral and Westmorland. In G. Akselberg, & I. Saerheim (Eds.), Scandinavian names and naming in the medieval North-Atlantic area: proceedings of the 44th symposium of NORNA in Caen 23–25 April 2014. NORNA-förlagetThis article discusses a method that has previously been used to quantify proportions of Scandinavian vocabulary relative to Old English-derived vocabulary in corpora of minor names from areas of Viking-Age Scandinavian settlement in England. This m... Read More about Quantifying the Scandinavian contribution to the vocabulary of Middle English microtoponyms from Wirral and Westmorland.
The noble identity of Gavin Douglas (2017)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2017). The noble identity of Gavin Douglas. In J. Martin, & E. Wingfield (Eds.), Premodern Scotland: literature and governance 1420-1587. Oxford University PressThis essay takes up Sally Mapstone’s contention that Scottish advice to princes was directed as much to magnates and their supporters as it ever was to the king, and applies it to Gavin Douglas’s Eneados. It considers the manner in which Douglas’s tr... Read More about The noble identity of Gavin Douglas.