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Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage (2017)
Journal Article
Turner, G., Mills, S., Van der Bom, I., Coffey-Glover, L., Paterson, L. L., & Jones, L. (2018). Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage. Discourse and Society, 29(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926517734422

In this paper, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from CDA and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency... Read More about Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage.

Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names (2017)
Journal Article
Baker, J. (2017). Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names. Early Medieval Europe, 25(4), 417-442. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12226

Old English sǣte names survive in documentary sources and place-names, and have been used in historical discourse as evidence for early and middle Anglo-Saxon socio-political organization. Earlier analyses, founded on incomplete datasets, have attemp... Read More about Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names.

What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation (2017)
Journal Article
Buckler, H., Goy, H., & Johnson, E. K. (2018). What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation. Journal of Phonetics, 66, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2017.09.004

In speech addressed to adults, words are seldom realized in their canonical, or citation, form. For example, the word ‘green’ in the phrase ‘green beans’ can often be realized as ‘greem’ due to English place assimilation, where word-final coronals ta... Read More about What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation.

Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges (2017)
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Perez Vallejos, E., Koene, A., Carter, C. J., Hunt, D., Woodard, C., Urquhart, L., …Statache, R. (in press). Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges. Philosophy && Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-017-0286-y

This article addresses the general ethical issues of accessing online personal data for research purposes. The authors discuss the practical aspects of online research with a specific case study that illustrates the ethical challenges encountered whe... Read More about Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges.

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/amx030

Various 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?.

Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships (2017)
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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.27916

This 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.2017.06.017

Although 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.

“Our biggest killer”: multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press (2017)
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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/10.1080/10350330.2017.1345111

A 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.

Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010-2015)?: a transitivity analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Collins, L. C., Jaspal, R., & Nerlich, B. (in press). Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010-2015)?: a transitivity analysis. Health, https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459317715777

The increase of infections resistant to existing antimicrobial medicines has become a topic of concern for health professionals, policy makers and publics across the globe, however among the public there is a sense that this is an issue beyond their... Read More about Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010-2015)?: a transitivity analysis.

“My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games (2017)
Journal Article
Bloomfield, J. (2017). “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games. Theology, 120(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571X16684430

The imagery of bread in The Hunger Games provides an opportunity to read the novel within a Christian tradition alert to themes of suffering, sacrifice and solidarity. This article examines how the novel “re-enchants” bread as both a site of ideolog... Read More about “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games.

'O London, London': Mid-Tudor literature and the city (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, M. R. (2017). 'O London, London': Mid-Tudor literature and the city. Review of English Studies, 68(287), 883-901. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgx018

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press 2017; all rights reserved. This article explores the ways in which mid-Tudor writing addressed and imagined the city of London. Scholarly reactions to mid-Tudor writing have been mixed: where ni... Read More about 'O London, London': Mid-Tudor literature and the city.

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.

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.