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Reader expertise and the literary significance of small-scale textual features in prose fiction (2019)
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Parente, F., Conklin, K., Guy, J., Carrol, G., & Scott, R. (2019). Reader expertise and the literary significance of small-scale textual features in prose fiction. Scientific Study of Literature, 9(1), 3-33. https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.19006.par

We use eye tracking to investigate the attention readers pay to different textual features to determine their significance in the appreciation of prose fiction. Previous research examined attention allocation to lexical and punctuation variants, and... Read More about Reader expertise and the literary significance of small-scale textual features in prose fiction.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: the Romanesque Capitals of St Kyneburgha's Church, Castor, and the Local Landscape (2019)
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Kilby, S. (2019). Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: the Romanesque Capitals of St Kyneburgha's Church, Castor, and the Local Landscape. Church Archaeology, 19, 53-72. https://doi.org/10.5284/1081985

Situated at the heart of an early twelfth-century rural Northamptonshire church-St Kyneburgha's church in Castor-a beautiful set of Romanesque capitals depicts an array of creatures, encompassing both the natural and supernatural worlds. This paper a... Read More about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: the Romanesque Capitals of St Kyneburgha's Church, Castor, and the Local Landscape.

Expressions of knowledge in early modern English- and German-language midwifery and gynaecological texts (ca. 1500-1700): on the use of pronominal subjects and that- complement clauses (2019)
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Whitt, R. (2019). Expressions of knowledge in early modern English- and German-language midwifery and gynaecological texts (ca. 1500-1700): on the use of pronominal subjects and that- complement clauses. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 120(1), 83-109

This paper presents the results of a corpus-based study of that-complement clauses and their pronominal subjects in early modern English- and German-language midwifery and gynaecological texts published from circa 1500 to 1700. These two centuries wi... Read More about Expressions of knowledge in early modern English- and German-language midwifery and gynaecological texts (ca. 1500-1700): on the use of pronominal subjects and that- complement clauses.

Role models in language learning: Results of a large-scale international survey (2019)
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Muir, C., Dörnyei, Z., & Adolphs, S. (2021). Role models in language learning: Results of a large-scale international survey. Applied Linguistics, 42(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amz056

Role models can exert considerable influence in shaping individuals’ values, attitudes and beliefs. A large body of work in the social sciences has investigated the influence of celebrity role models, and in the context of education several disciplin... Read More about Role models in language learning: Results of a large-scale international survey.

Racism and dehumanisation in Heart of Darkness and its Italian translations: A reader response analysis (2019)
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Mastropierro, L., & Conklin, K. (2019). Racism and dehumanisation in Heart of Darkness and its Italian translations: A reader response analysis. Language and Literature, 28(4), 309-325. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947019884450

This article presents the results of a reader response study of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and two of its Italian translations. Specifically, data from an online questionnaire are used to test whether English and Italian readers respond differ... Read More about Racism and dehumanisation in Heart of Darkness and its Italian translations: A reader response analysis.

Performing the Rural in Contemporary Irish Theatre (2019)
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Collins, C. (2019). Performing the Rural in Contemporary Irish Theatre. New Theatre Quarterly, 35(4), 341-351. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x19000381

In this article Christopher Collins considers how the rural is represented in contemporary Irish theatre through a performance analysis of WillFredd Theatre’s award-winning production of FARM, staged in an industrial Dublin warehouse. Adopting a rela... Read More about Performing the Rural in Contemporary Irish Theatre.

Robert Southey and his age: ageing, old age and the days of old (2019)
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Pratt, L. (2019). Robert Southey and his age: ageing, old age and the days of old. Romanticism, 24(1), 271-280. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0432

Throughout a four-decade career, the controversial poet, historian, biographer and essayist Robert Southey explored the trajectories both of his own individual life and of the time and the society in which he lived. Using a range of published and unp... Read More about Robert Southey and his age: ageing, old age and the days of old.

Battles and breakthroughs: representations of dementia in the British press (2019)
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Bailey, A., Dening, T., & Harvey, K. (2021). Battles and breakthroughs: representations of dementia in the British press. Ageing and Society, 41(2), 362-376. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X19001120

Media coverage of dementia can influence public and professional attitudes towards the syndrome, shaping societal knowledge of dementia and impacting how people with dementia are cared for. This paper reports on a study of news articles about dementi... Read More about Battles and breakthroughs: representations of dementia in the British press.

Passivizability of Idioms: Has the Wrong Tree Been Barked Up? (2019)
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Kyriacou, M., Conklin, K., & Thompson, D. (2020). Passivizability of Idioms: Has the Wrong Tree Been Barked Up?. Language and Speech, 63(2), 404-435. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830919847691

A growing number of studies support the partial compositionality of idiomatic phrases, while idioms are thought to vary in their syntactic flexibility. Some idioms, like kick the bucket, have been classified as inflexible and incapable of being passi... Read More about Passivizability of Idioms: Has the Wrong Tree Been Barked Up?.

Understanding vocabulary acquisition, instruction, and assessment: A research agenda (2019)
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Schmitt, N. (2019). Understanding vocabulary acquisition, instruction, and assessment: A research agenda. Language Teaching, 52(2), 261-274. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444819000053

This paper suggests six areas of vocabulary research which the author believes would be fruitful for future research. They include (1) developing a practical model of vocabulary acquisition, (2) understanding how vocabulary knowledge develops from re... Read More about Understanding vocabulary acquisition, instruction, and assessment: A research agenda.

I English Language (2019)
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Kostadinova, V., Yáñez-Bouza, N., Dreschler, G., Gregersen, S., Gyuris, B., Allan, K., …Norledge, J. (2019). I English Language. Year's Work in English Studies, 98(1), 1-166. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maz004

This chapter has fourteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology (not covered this year); 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Diale... Read More about I English Language.

Mean clean (2019)
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Legendre, T. (2019). Mean clean. Beloit Fiction Journal, 32,

‘The fact they knew before I did upset me most’: Essentialism and normativity in lesbian and gay youths’ coming out stories (2019)
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Jones, L. (2020). ‘The fact they knew before I did upset me most’: Essentialism and normativity in lesbian and gay youths’ coming out stories. Sexualities, 23(4), 497-515. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460719830343

This article demonstrates, via discourse analysis of a group of young gay and lesbian people's coming out stories, the salience of essentialist ideologies on their identity construction. The study reveals underlying normative assumptions in the young... Read More about ‘The fact they knew before I did upset me most’: Essentialism and normativity in lesbian and gay youths’ coming out stories.

Different strokes: judicial violence in Viking-Age England and Scandinavia (2019)
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Ruiter, K., & Ashby, S. P. (2019). Different strokes: judicial violence in Viking-Age England and Scandinavia. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 14, 153-184. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.vms.5.116393

This paper takes a fresh look at the use of judicial violence in the societies of Viking-Age England and Scandinavia. Using interdisciplinary methodologies, it considers legal, historical, literary, and archaeological evidence for judicially-prescrib... Read More about Different strokes: judicial violence in Viking-Age England and Scandinavia.

The effect of accent exposure on children’s sociolinguistic evaluation of peers (2019)
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Paquette-Smith, M., Buckler, H., White, K., Choi, J., & Johnson, E. K. (2019). The effect of accent exposure on children’s sociolinguistic evaluation of peers. Developmental Psychology, 55(4), 809-822. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000659

Language and accent strongly influence the formation of social groups. By five years of age, children already show strong social preferences for peers who speak their native language with a familiar accent (Kinzler, Shutts, DeJesus, & Spelke, 2009).... Read More about The effect of accent exposure on children’s sociolinguistic evaluation of peers.

Assessing plain and intelligible language in the Consumer Rights Act: a role for reading scores? (2019)
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Conklin, K., Hyde, R., & Parente, F. (2019). Assessing plain and intelligible language in the Consumer Rights Act: a role for reading scores?. Legal Studies, 39(3), 378-397. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2018.25

Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 consumer contracts and consumer notices are required to be expressed in plain and intelligible language. This is a difficult concept to capture. Determining whether a contract is expressed in plain and intelligible... Read More about Assessing plain and intelligible language in the Consumer Rights Act: a role for reading scores?.

Word knowledge: exploring the relationships and order of acquisition of vocabulary knowledge components (2019)
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Schmitt, N., & González-Fernández, B. (2019). Word knowledge: exploring the relationships and order of acquisition of vocabulary knowledge components. Applied Linguistics, 41(4), 481-505. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amy057

Vocabulary knowledge is a complex construct that involves the acquisition of multiple word knowledge components (Henriksen1999; Read 2000; Nation 2013). However, most of our current understanding about this construct derives from studies that have... Read More about Word knowledge: exploring the relationships and order of acquisition of vocabulary knowledge components.