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The threatening wave: Norse poetry and the Scottish Isles (2015)
Book Chapter
Jesch, J. (2015). The threatening wave: Norse poetry and the Scottish Isles. In J. H. Barrett, & S. Gibbon (Eds.), Maritime societies of the Viking and Medieval world (320-332). Maney Publishing

The poetry discussed in this paper presents a range of responses to sailing around the northern parts of the British Isles, by poets more or less familiar with these routes but also with Norway, Iceland and sea-ways much further afield. These poets u... Read More about The threatening wave: Norse poetry and the Scottish Isles.

Masculinity in lesbian discourse: the case of butch and femme (2015)
Book Chapter
Jones, L. (2015). Masculinity in lesbian discourse: the case of butch and femme. In T. M. Milani (Ed.), Language and masculinities: performance, intersections, dislocations. Routledge

This chapter explores the ways in which a lesbian community of practice perform a ‘butch’ identity. It uses discourse analysis to consider an interaction between them, showing a shared sense of self to be produced which rejects traditional symbols of... Read More about Masculinity in lesbian discourse: the case of butch and femme.

Learning L2 collocations incidentally from reading (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Cognitive stylistics (2015)
Book Chapter
Stockwell, P. (2015). Cognitive stylistics. In R. H. Jones (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity. Routledge

The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed (2015)
Journal Article
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.