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Naturalistic reading in the L2 and the impact of word frequency and cross-linguistic similarity (2017)
Journal Article
Allen, D., & Conklin, K. (2017). Naturalistic reading in the L2 and the impact of word frequency and cross-linguistic similarity. 00 Journal not listed, 7(3), 41-57

While psycholinguistic studies of first language (L1) reading have identified multiple factors that predict the speed of lexical access, there are few studies investigating whether such factors influence second language (L2) reading. For usage-based... Read More about Naturalistic reading in the L2 and the impact of word frequency and cross-linguistic similarity.

The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Six: 1819-1821 (2017)
Book
Southey, R. (2017). I. Packer, & L. Pratt (Eds.), The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Six: 1819-1821. Romantic Circles

Part Six collects together, in one place, for the first time, the surviving letters written by Robert Southey between 1819 and 1821. It follows the editorial conventions described in About this Edition and presents newly transcribed, fully annotated... Read More about The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Six: 1819-1821.

Sociolinguistic factors affecting performance in the Clinical Skills Assessment of the MRCGP: a mixed methods approach (2017)
Journal Article
Hawthorne, K., Roberts, C., & Atkins, S. (2017). Sociolinguistic factors affecting performance in the Clinical Skills Assessment of the MRCGP: a mixed methods approach. BJGP Open, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen17X100713

Background: Differential performance in clinical skills assessments is a widespread phenomenon, for which there remain few explanations.

Aim: To better understand the conversational contexts of simulated consultations and how candidates actually b... Read More about Sociolinguistic factors affecting performance in the Clinical Skills Assessment of the MRCGP: a mixed methods approach.

‘Can we have a child exchange?’ Constructing and subverting the ‘good mother’ through play in Mumsnet Talk (2017)
Journal Article
Mackenzie, J. (2017). ‘Can we have a child exchange?’ Constructing and subverting the ‘good mother’ through play in Mumsnet Talk. Discourse and Society, 28(3), 296-312. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926516687417

This article uses a feminist poststructuralist approach to explore how contributors to a single thread from the discussion forum of a popular British parenting website, Mumsnet Talk, position themselves as ‘good mothers’. The qualitative analysis tha... Read More about ‘Can we have a child exchange?’ Constructing and subverting the ‘good mother’ through play in Mumsnet Talk.

Cures and Currency in John Donne’s Letters to Patrons (2017)
Journal Article
Bumke, A. (2017). Cures and Currency in John Donne’s Letters to Patrons. SEL Studies in English Literature, 57(1), 67-86. https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2017.0003

Critics have discussed how John Donne’s writing responds to alchemy and to patronage, but none has examined how he draws parallels between the two frameworks. Donne sees both as convoluted, frustrating processes that rely on falseness. Comparing his... Read More about Cures and Currency in John Donne’s Letters to Patrons.

Using corpora to track changing thought styles: evidentiality, epistemology, and Early Modern English and German scientific discourse (2017)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. J. (2017). Using corpora to track changing thought styles: evidentiality, epistemology, and Early Modern English and German scientific discourse. Kalbotyra, 69, https://doi.org/10.15388/Klbt.2016.10376

Most research on evidentiality has focused on classifying evidential systems synchronically; meanwhile, diachronic studies on evidentiality seem to have focused on the development of specific items into evidential markers with little regard to discou... Read More about Using corpora to track changing thought styles: evidentiality, epistemology, and Early Modern English and German scientific discourse.

Pre-Modern Scotland. Literature and Governance 1420-1587 (2017)
Book
Martin, J., & Wingfield, E. (Eds.). (2017). Pre-Modern Scotland. Literature and Governance 1420-1587. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787525.001.0001

This book brings together original essays by a group of international scholars to offer ground-breaking research into the ‘Advice to Princes’ tradition and related themes of good self- and public governance in Older Scots literature, and in Latin lit... Read More about Pre-Modern Scotland. Literature and Governance 1420-1587.