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The conversationality index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions (2025)
Journal Article
Cotgrove, L., Thul, R., & Conklin, K. (2025). The conversationality index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions. Internet Pragmatics, https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00119.cot

There has been an explosion in social media use, with Statista estimating that worldwide, Facebook has over 3 billion regular active users, YouTube 2.5 billion, and Instagram and WhatsApp 2 billion. While social media allows one to connect and intera... Read More about The conversationality index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions.

British India in the 1850s (2025)
Book Chapter
Ni Fhlathuin, M. (2025). British India in the 1850s. In G. Marshall (Ed.), Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1850s (225-249). Cambridge University Press

Bringing the Survey home: adventures in community engagement (2025)
Journal Article
Baker, J., Carroll, J., & Kilby, S. (2025). Bringing the Survey home: adventures in community engagement. Journal of the English Place‑Name Society, 55,

The purpose of this paper is to celebrate the long-standing partnership between the Survey of English Place-Names and local communities, to recognise the great debt the Survey owes for the work of volunteers over the last hundred years, and to reflec... Read More about Bringing the Survey home: adventures in community engagement.

Viewpoint in Eighteenth-Century Birthing Narratives: A Survey of Midwifery Manuals (2025)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. J. (2025). Viewpoint in Eighteenth-Century Birthing Narratives: A Survey of Midwifery Manuals. Women's Writing, 32(1), 66-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2024.2447192

This article provides a literary linguistic analysis of narrative viewpoint in a selection of eighteenth-century midwifery manuals. The eighteenth century is when the medicalisation of childbirth gained pace and the obstetric surgeon (known as the “... Read More about Viewpoint in Eighteenth-Century Birthing Narratives: A Survey of Midwifery Manuals.

Punctuation In Older Scots (2024)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. (in press). Punctuation In Older Scots. In E. Bonapfel, M. Faulkner, J. Lennard, & J. Gutierre (Eds.), A History of Punctuation in English Literature. Cambridge University Press

‘Art Isn’t Easy’: Making Music al Theatre in Sunday in the Park with George (2024)
Journal Article
Sutherland, L. (2024). ‘Art Isn’t Easy’: Making Music al Theatre in Sunday in the Park with George. Critical Quarterly, 66(4), 107-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12810

Sunday in the Park With George (Sunday) was a pivotal piece of work for Stephen Sondheim, written in the early 80s, at a time when he broke away from Broadway production processes to work in the nonprofit sector, developing this musical with James La... Read More about ‘Art Isn’t Easy’: Making Music al Theatre in Sunday in the Park with George.

We(o)ndun, Symeon of Durham and the battle of Brunanburh (2024)
Journal Article
Cavill, P. (2024). We(o)ndun, Symeon of Durham and the battle of Brunanburh. Medium Ævum, 93(1), 46-69

The battle of Brunanburh in 937 was seen as significant throughout the medieval period, and some account of the conflict between the English and the invading men of Alba and Dublin- Norse occurs in dozens of medieval records. There are some variation... Read More about We(o)ndun, Symeon of Durham and the battle of Brunanburh.

Hard to swallow? A critical animal studies perspective on the discursive recontextualisation of the reality of dairy farming (2024)
Journal Article
Brookes, G., & Chałupnik, M. (2024). Hard to swallow? A critical animal studies perspective on the discursive recontextualisation of the reality of dairy farming. Discourse and Communication, https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813241299002

This paper reports on a multimodal critical discourse analysis of the representations of social actors and processes involved in the production of dairy products. Focussing on the website of the UK’s largest dairy company, Arla Foods UK, the analysis... Read More about Hard to swallow? A critical animal studies perspective on the discursive recontextualisation of the reality of dairy farming.

Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’ (2024)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., Adolphs, S., & Knight, D. (2024). Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’. Lingua, 312, Article 103836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103836

Our study aims to develop a new corpus pragmatic approach for exploring the gesture patterns (i.e. functions and forms) co-occurring with the discourse marker ‘I mean’, including a comparison with previous research on another discourse marker (i.e. ‘... Read More about Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’.