Ultraviolet
(2016)
Journal Article
Legendre, T. (2016). Ultraviolet
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‘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.31062This 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)
Journal Article
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.v10i3.32035This 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.
Alexander Arbuthnot and the lyric in the Post-Reformation Scotland (2016)
Journal Article
Martin, J. M. (2016). Alexander Arbuthnot and the lyric in the Post-Reformation Scotland. Studies in Scottish literature, 41(1), 62-87
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/10.1145/2983926The 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.
Angel delight: Patrick Pearse and modernist experiment (2016)
Book Chapter
Moran, J. (2016). Angel delight: Patrick Pearse and modernist experiment. In R. Ní Gháirbhí, & E. McNulty (Eds.), Patrick Pearse and the Theatre. Four Courts Press
Explaining Anglo-Saxon military efficiency: the landscape of mobilization (2016)
Journal Article
Baker, J., & Brookes, S. (in press). Explaining Anglo-Saxon military efficiency: the landscape of mobilization. Anglo-Saxon England, 44, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100080121
Fable, myth and folk tale: The writing of oral and traditional story forms (2016)
Book Chapter
Harrison, A. (2016). Fable, myth and folk tale: The writing of oral and traditional story forms. In D. Head (Ed.), Cambridge history of the English short story (84-99). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316711712.006© Cambridge University Press 2016. Oral and traditional story forms - from fable, myth, fairy tale and folk tale to religious parable - underwrote the nature and purpose of the short story from its earliest incarnations, offering powerful narrative m... Read More about Fable, myth and folk tale: The writing of oral and traditional story forms.
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/10.1080/17405904.2016.1250651Payday 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.
Interpreting vocabulary test scores: what do various item formats tell us about learners’ ability to employ words? (2016)
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Schmitt, N., & Kremmel, B. (2016). Interpreting vocabulary test scores: what do various item formats tell us about learners’ ability to employ words?. Language Assessment Quarterly, 13(4), 377-392. https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2016.1237516
The Cambridge history of the English short story (2016)
Book
D. Head (Ed.), (2016). The Cambridge history of the English short storyThe Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English short story to the present day, and written by in... Read More about The Cambridge history of the English short story.
‘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.16692This 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,
Dismantling Narrative Modes: Authorial Revisions in the Opening of Mrs Dalloway (2016)
Book Chapter
Sotirova, V. (2016). Dismantling Narrative Modes: Authorial Revisions in the Opening of Mrs Dalloway. In A. Auer, V. González-Díaz, J. Hodson, & V. Sotirova (Eds.), Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson (171-194). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.25.10sotThis study examines Virginia Woolf ’s authorial revisions of the opening of Mrs Dalloway and their implications for narrative theory. I compare passages from the short story ‘Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street’ and the early drafts of ‘The Hours’ with the p... Read More about Dismantling Narrative Modes: Authorial Revisions in the Opening of Mrs Dalloway.
The Language of Surrealism (2016)
Book
Stockwell, P. (2016). The Language of Surrealism. London: Palgrave Macmillan
Evidentiality in early modern English medical treatises (1500-1700) (2016)
Journal Article
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-2016-0014This 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).
Signs of the T: Aldous Huxley, high art, and American technocracy (2016)
Book Chapter
Waddell, N. (2016). Signs of the T: Aldous Huxley, high art, and American technocracy. In J. Greenberg, & N. Waddell (Eds.), 'Brave new world': contexts and legacies (31-49). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44541-4
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-2016-0028This 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)
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Waddell, N. (2016). Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality. Modernism/modernity, 1(3), https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0003This 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 Number Poems (2016)
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Welton, M. (2016). The Number Poems. Manchester: CarcanetMatthew Welton is a poet enchanted by form and process. Many of the Number Poems abide by subtle patterns or constraints, creating symmetries in the arrangement of sentences, lines, words, or metrical feet. As with good architecture, however, Welton’... Read More about The Number Poems.