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‘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)
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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.

Ultraviolet (2016)
Journal Article
Legendre, T. (2016). Ultraviolet

‘Good mums don’t, apparently, wear make-up’: negotiating discourses of gendered parenthood in Mumsnet Talk (2016)
Journal Article
Mackenzie, J. (2018). ‘Good mums don’t, apparently, wear make-up’: negotiating discourses of gendered parenthood in Mumsnet Talk. Gender and Language, 12(1), 114-135. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.31062

This article explores the discourses and related subject positions that are negotiated by contributors to the discussion forum of a popular British parenting website, Mumsnet Talk. Drawing on analysis of a single thread posted to this forum, I explor... Read More about ‘Good mums don’t, apparently, wear make-up’: negotiating discourses of gendered parenthood in Mumsnet Talk.

‘Off to the best start’? A multimodal critique of breast and formula feeding health promotional discourse (2016)
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Brookes, G., Harvey, K., & Mullany, L. (2016). ‘Off to the best start’? A multimodal critique of breast and formula feeding health promotional discourse. Gender and Language, 10(3), 340-363. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.v10i3.32035

This study critically examines the multimodal discourses of baby-feeding practices in contemporary health promotion in the UK. Comparing two parallel texts from the ongoing Start4life campaign (one dedicated to breastfeeding, the other to bottle/form... Read More about ‘Off to the best start’? A multimodal critique of breast and formula feeding health promotional discourse.

A multimodal approach to assessing user experiences with agent helpers (2016)
Journal Article
Adolphs, S., Clark, L., Ofemile, A., & Rodden, T. (2016). A multimodal approach to assessing user experiences with agent helpers. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 6(4), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1145/2983926

The study of agent helpers using linguistic strategies such as vague language and politeness has often come across obstacles. One of these is the quality of the agent's voice and its lack of appropriate fit for using these strategies. The first appro... Read More about A multimodal approach to assessing user experiences with agent helpers.

Just plain Wronga? A multimodal critical analysis of online payday loan discourse (2016)
Journal Article
Brookes, G., & Harvey, K. (2017). Just plain Wronga? A multimodal critical analysis of online payday loan discourse. Critical Discourse Studies, 14(2), 167-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2016.1250651

Payday loans constitute one of the most rapidly expanding and controversial forms of consumer lending today. Payday lending – the selling of high-interest, short-term credit – has thrived in the wake of the decline of the traditional high street bank... Read More about Just plain Wronga? A multimodal critical analysis of online payday loan discourse.

‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication (2016)
Journal Article
Mullany, L., Smith, C., Harvey, K., & Adolphs, S. (2016). ‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication. Communication and Medicine, 12(2-3), 211-223. https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.16692

This article explores the communicative choices of adolescents seeking advice from an internet-based health forum run by medical professionals. Techniques from the disciplines of sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics are integrated to examine the s... Read More about ‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication.

Tenure tracks (2016)
Journal Article
Legendre, T. (2016). Tenure tracks. Columbia Journal of Race and Law,

Evidentiality in early modern English medical treatises (1500-1700) (2016)
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Whitt, R. J. (2016). Evidentiality in early modern English medical treatises (1500-1700). Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 2(2), 235-263. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2016-0014

This study investigates diachronic trends in the use of evidential markers in Early Modern English medical treatises (1500-1700), with data drawn from the Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts. The state of medical thought and practice in Earl... Read More about Evidentiality in early modern English medical treatises (1500-1700).

The development of the würde + infinitive construction in Early Modern German (1650–1800) (2016)
Journal Article
Durrell, M., & Whitt, R. J. (2016). The development of the würde + infinitive construction in Early Modern German (1650–1800). Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 138(3), https://doi.org/10.1515/bgsl-2016-0028

This paper presents a corpus-based analysis of the evolution of the würde + infinitive construction in German during the Early Modern period (1650– 1800), using newly available data from the GerManC-corpus. We demonstrate how this construction occupi... Read More about The development of the würde + infinitive construction in Early Modern German (1650–1800).

Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality (2016)
Journal Article
Waddell, N. (2016). Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality. Modernism/modernity, 1(3), https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0003

This article looks closely at the life and career of the avant-garde sculptor and painter Lawrence Atkinson (1873-1931) as a way to reconsider from a new angle at least three persistent clichés about Vorticism (that it was unmusical, that it was stop... Read More about Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality.

The Inclusion of Ethnic Minority Patients and the Role of Language in Telehealth Trials for Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review (2016)
Journal Article
Isaacs, T., Hunt, D., Ward, D., Rooshenas, L., & Edwards, L. (2016). The Inclusion of Ethnic Minority Patients and the Role of Language in Telehealth Trials for Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 18(9), Article e256. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.6374

Background: Type 2 diabetes is a serious, pervasive metabolic condition that disproportionately affects ethnic minority patients. Telehealth interventions can facilitate type 2 diabetes monitoring and prevent secondary complications. However, trials... Read More about The Inclusion of Ethnic Minority Patients and the Role of Language in Telehealth Trials for Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review.

Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles (2016)
Journal Article
Collins, L. C., & Nerlich, B. (2016). Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles. Communications, 41(3), https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2016-0009

Uncertainty is intrinsic to science, to knowledge acquisition and risk assessment. When communicating about climate change however, uncertainty can be used and understood as ‘not knowing’, i.e. as ignorance. In this article we aim to understand how ‘... Read More about Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles.