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Learning L2 collocations incidentally from reading (2015)
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Pellicer-Sánchez, A. (in press). Learning L2 collocations incidentally from reading. Language Teaching Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168815618428

Previous studies have shown that intentional learning through explicit instruction is effective for the acquisition of collocations in a second language (L2) (e.g. Peters, 2014, 2015), but relatively little is known about the effectiveness of inciden... Read More about Learning L2 collocations incidentally from reading.

Performing health identities on social media: an online observation of Facebook profiles (2015)
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Koteyko, N., & Hunt, D. (2016). Performing health identities on social media: an online observation of Facebook profiles. Discourse, Context and Media, 12, 59-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2015.11.003

The increasing role of online technology in mediating our accounts and experiences of health and illness is now well recognised. Whereas earlier research has examined the language of support groups and institutional websites, attention is increasingl... Read More about Performing health identities on social media: an online observation of Facebook profiles.

The impact of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) on reading by nonnative speakers (2015)
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Boo, Z., & Conklin, K. (2015). The impact of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) on reading by nonnative speakers

With the proliferation of cell phones and other small handheld electronic devices, more and more people are using software that presents texts one word at a time. This trend can be attributed to the small screen sizes afforded by these modern electro... Read More about The impact of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) on reading by nonnative speakers.

Intertextual Relations: James Joyce and William Shakespeare in Angela Carter's Wise Children (2015)
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Davison, S. (2016). Intertextual Relations: James Joyce and William Shakespeare in Angela Carter's Wise Children. Contemporary Women's Writing, 10(2), 197-215. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpv020

© 2015 The Author. Angela Carter's feminist appropriation of William Shakespeare's plots in Wise Children (1991) is well recognized. This article proposes that the novel also makes sustained references to the life and work of James Joyce and thereby... Read More about Intertextual Relations: James Joyce and William Shakespeare in Angela Carter's Wise Children.

The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses (2015)
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Garnier, M., & Schmitt, N. (2015). The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses. Language Teaching Research, 19(6), https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168814559798

As researchers and practitioners are becoming more aware of the importance of multi-word items in English, there is little doubt that phrasal verbs deserve teaching attention in the classroom. However, there are thousands of phrasal verbs in English,... Read More about The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses.

“Always the same stairs, always the same room”: the uncanny architecture of Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight (2015)
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Zimmerman, E. (2015). “Always the same stairs, always the same room”: the uncanny architecture of Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight. Journal of Modern Literature, 38(4), https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.38.4.74

Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight (1939) is a novel that returns obsessively to the uncanny architecture of the Parisian hotel, through providing insight into the deracinated experiences of protagonist Sasha Jansen, a woman existing at the peripheri... Read More about “Always the same stairs, always the same room”: the uncanny architecture of Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight.

The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed (2015)
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Hazel, S. (2015). The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed. Qualitative Research, 16(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794115596216

This article analyses a collection of cases from video recordings of naturally occurring interaction in institutional settings, where members display an orientation to the presence of the recording equipment. Such instances have been treated elsewher... Read More about The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed.

Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research (2015)
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Carter, C. J., Koene, A., Perez, E., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O'Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2016). Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research. Computers and Society, 45(3), https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874268

In this paper, we outline an online survey-based study seeking to understand academic attitudes towards social media research ethics (SMRE). As the exploratory phase of a wider research project, findings are discussed in relation to the responses of... Read More about Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research.

Incidental L2 vocabulary acquisition from and while reading (2015)
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Pellicer-Sánchez, A. (2016). Incidental L2 vocabulary acquisition from and while reading. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 38(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263115000224

Previous studies have shown that reading is an important source of incidental L2 vocabulary acquisition. However, we still do not have a clear picture of what happens when readers encounter unknown words. Combining off-line (vocabulary tests) and onl... Read More about Incidental L2 vocabulary acquisition from and while reading.

The roared-at boys? Repertory casting and gender politics in the RSC's 2014 Swan season (2015)
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Kirwan, P. (2015). The roared-at boys? Repertory casting and gender politics in the RSC's 2014 Swan season. Shakespeare, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2015.1048277

This essay interrogates the loading of the “Roaring Girls” season by asking what it means to “roar” in both the early modern period and twenty-first century, unpacking the terms on which the women of these productions are empowered or undermined thro... Read More about The roared-at boys? Repertory casting and gender politics in the RSC's 2014 Swan season.

A "tottering lace-like architecture of ruins”: the wartime home in Elizabeth Bowen’s The heat of the day (2015)
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Zimmerman, E. (2015). A "tottering lace-like architecture of ruins”: the wartime home in Elizabeth Bowen’s The heat of the day. Literary Geographies, 1(1),

Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day (1949) is a novel permeated with the architectural ruins of the Second World War. This article is concerned with the shock effects the war had on Bowen’s understanding of the material world and the resultant impl... Read More about A "tottering lace-like architecture of ruins”: the wartime home in Elizabeth Bowen’s The heat of the day.

More than skin deep: dissecting Donne’s imagery of humours (2015)
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Bumke, A. (2015). More than skin deep: dissecting Donne’s imagery of humours. Review of English Studies, 66(276), https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgv054

This article explores John Donne’s imagery of humoral complexions in verse letters to patrons and in sermons. In the early modern period, the term ‘complexion’ referred to a person’s unique mixture of humours, the four bodily fluids thought to determ... Read More about More than skin deep: dissecting Donne’s imagery of humours.

The exemplary poetry of Geoffrey Hill: authority and exemplarity in A Treatise of Civil Power (2015)
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Vincent, B. (2015). The exemplary poetry of Geoffrey Hill: authority and exemplarity in A Treatise of Civil Power. Modern Language Review, 110(3), https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.110.3.0649

Geoffrey Hill's ethical anxieties turn on a tension between aesthetic autonomy and engagement with the polis, a tension illuminated by his adumbration of an exemplary poetics. ‘Exemplarity’ is characterized by a similar tension between intransitive a... Read More about The exemplary poetry of Geoffrey Hill: authority and exemplarity in A Treatise of Civil Power.

The many faces of diabetes: a critical multimodal analysis of diabetes pages on Facebook (2015)
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Hunt, D. (2015). The many faces of diabetes: a critical multimodal analysis of diabetes pages on Facebook. Language and Communication, 43, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2015.05.003

Health communication published on Facebook has become a popular source of medical information and large organisations now utilise Facebook to disseminate multimodal representations of health and illness. Drawing on a sample of posts to two popular di... Read More about The many faces of diabetes: a critical multimodal analysis of diabetes pages on Facebook.

'What was your blood sugar reading this morning?': representing diabetes self-management on Facebook (2015)
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Hunt, D., & Koteyko, N. (2015). 'What was your blood sugar reading this morning?': representing diabetes self-management on Facebook. Discourse and Society, 26(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926515576631

Social networking sites have swiftly become a salient venue for the production and consumption of neoliberal health discourse by individuals and organisations. These platforms offer both opportunities for individuals to accrue coping resources and a... Read More about 'What was your blood sugar reading this morning?': representing diabetes self-management on Facebook.

Dutch and German 3-year-olds’ representations of voicing alternations (2015)
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Buckler, H., & Fikkert, P. (in press). Dutch and German 3-year-olds’ representations of voicing alternations. Language and Speech, 59(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830915587038

The voicing contrast is neutralised syllable and word finally in Dutch and German, leading to alternations within the morphological paradigm (e.g. Dutch ‘bed(s)’, be[t] be[d]en, German ‘dog(s)’, Hun[t]-Hun[d]e). Despite structural similarity, languag... Read More about Dutch and German 3-year-olds’ representations of voicing alternations.