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“I don’t see what good a book is without pictures or conversations”: imaginary worlds and intertextuality in Alice in Wonderland and Alice in Sunderland (2015)
Book Chapter
Green, M. A. (2015). “I don’t see what good a book is without pictures or conversations”: imaginary worlds and intertextuality in Alice in Wonderland and Alice in Sunderland. In S. E. Tabachnick, & E. B. Saltzman (Eds.), Drawn from the classics: essays on graphic adaptations of literary works (110-126). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company

Cross language priming extends to formulaic units: evidence from eye-tracking suggests that this idea “has legs” (2015)
Journal Article
Carrol, G., & Conklin, K. (2017). Cross language priming extends to formulaic units: evidence from eye-tracking suggests that this idea “has legs”. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728915000103

Idiom priming effects (faster processing compared to novel phrases) are generally robust in native speakers but not non-native speakers. This leads to the question of how idioms and other multiword units are represented and accessed in a first (L1) a... Read More about Cross language priming extends to formulaic units: evidence from eye-tracking suggests that this idea “has legs”.

Chaucer the Puritan (2015)
Book Chapter
Jones, M. (2015). Chaucer the Puritan. In I. Davis, & C. Nall (Eds.), Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (165-184). Boydell & Brewer

Processing punctuation and word changes in different editions of prose fiction (2015)
Journal Article
Carrol, G., Conklin, K., Guy, J., & Scott, R. (2015). Processing punctuation and word changes in different editions of prose fiction. Scientific Study of Literature, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.5.2.05con

The digital era has brought with it a shift in the field of literary editing in terms of the amount and kind of textual variation that can reasonably be annotated by editors. However, questions remain about how far readers engage with textual variant... Read More about Processing punctuation and word changes in different editions of prose fiction.

How can semantic annotation help us to analyse the discourse of climate change in online user comments? (2015)
Journal Article
Collins, L. C. (2015). How can semantic annotation help us to analyse the discourse of climate change in online user comments?. Linguistik Online, 70(1), https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.70.1743

User comments in response to newspaper articles published online offer a unique resource for studying online discourse. The number of comments that articles often elicit poses many methodological challenges and analyses of online user comments have i... Read More about How can semantic annotation help us to analyse the discourse of climate change in online user comments?.

Writing the smart city: "relational space" and the concept of "belonging" (2015)
Journal Article
Jordan, S. (2015). Writing the smart city: "relational space" and the concept of "belonging". Writing in Practice: the journal of creative writing research, 1,

This paper explores McQuire’s concept of "relational space", a term he uses to describe the transformed horizon of social relationships within the smart city. Although there is no exact definition, the smart city is predicated on both the rise of dig... Read More about Writing the smart city: "relational space" and the concept of "belonging".

How much vocabulary is needed to use English? Replication of van Zeeland & Schmitt (2012), Nation (2006) and Cobb (2007) (2015)
Journal Article
Schmitt, N., Cobb, T., Horst, M., & Schmitt, D. (2015). How much vocabulary is needed to use English? Replication of van Zeeland & Schmitt (2012), Nation (2006) and Cobb (2007). Language Teaching, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444815000075

There is current research consensus that second language (L2) learners are able to adequately comprehend general English written texts if they know 98% of the words that occur in the materials. This important finding prompts an important question: Ho... Read More about How much vocabulary is needed to use English? Replication of van Zeeland & Schmitt (2012), Nation (2006) and Cobb (2007).

Expectations in the field of the Internet and health: an analysis of claims about social networking sites in clinical literature (2015)
Journal Article
Koteyko, N., Hunt, D., & Gunter, B. (2015). Expectations in the field of the Internet and health: an analysis of claims about social networking sites in clinical literature. Sociology of Health and Illness, 37(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12203

This article adopts a critical sociological perspective to examine the expectations surrounding the uses of social networking sites (SNSs) articulated in the domain of clinical literature. This emerging body of articles and commentaries responds to t... Read More about Expectations in the field of the Internet and health: an analysis of claims about social networking sites in clinical literature.

Attributing minds to vampires in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend (2015)
Journal Article
Nuttall, L. (2015). Attributing minds to vampires in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend. Language and Literature, 24(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947014561834

For Palmer (2004, 2010), and other proponents of a cognitive narratology, research into real-world minds in the cognitive sciences provides insights into readers’ experiences of fictional minds. In this article, I explore the application of such rese... Read More about Attributing minds to vampires in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend.

'The power of attraction': the staging of Wilde and his contemporaries at the St James's Theatre, 1892–1895 (2015)
Journal Article
Sutherland, L. (2015). 'The power of attraction': the staging of Wilde and his contemporaries at the St James's Theatre, 1892–1895. New Theatre Quarterly, 31(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X15000044

The actor-manager system remained pivotal to West End production throughout the later nineteenth century. Focusing on one actor-manager, George Alexander, and using records of his expenditure on productions during the early 1890s, Lucie Sutherland de... Read More about 'The power of attraction': the staging of Wilde and his contemporaries at the St James's Theatre, 1892–1895.

Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England (2015)
Journal Article
Baker, J., & Brookes, S. (2015). Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England. Journal of Field Archaeology, 40(1), https://doi.org/10.1179/0093469014Z.000000000103

Venues of outdoor assembly are an important type of archaeological site. Using the example of early medieval (Anglo-Saxon; 5th–11th centuries A.D.) meeting places in England we describe a new multidisciplinary method for identifying and characterizin... Read More about Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England.

A tale of two Londons: locating Shakespeare and Dickens in 2012 (2015)
Book Chapter
Kirwan, P., & Mathieson, C. (2015). A tale of two Londons: locating Shakespeare and Dickens in 2012. In P. Prescott, & E. Sullivan (Eds.), Shakespeare on the global stage: performance and festivity in the Olympic year. Bloomsbury

Eye-tracking multi-word units: some methodological questions (2015)
Journal Article
Carrol, G., & Conklin, K. (2015). Eye-tracking multi-word units: some methodological questions. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 7(5), https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.7.5.5

Eye-tracking in linguistics has focused mainly on reading at the level of the word or sentence. In this paper we discuss how the phenomenon of formulaic language might best be examined using this methodology. Formulaic language is fundamentally multi... Read More about Eye-tracking multi-word units: some methodological questions.

Identities at odds: embedded and implicit language policing in the internationalized workplace (2015)
Journal Article
Hazel, S. (2015). Identities at odds: embedded and implicit language policing in the internationalized workplace. Language and Intercultural Communication, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2014.985311

This study offers an interaction analytic account of how linguistic identities in internationalized workplaces in Denmark are indexed against members' institutional positions in particular interactional contexts. Where language policy may not be expl... Read More about Identities at odds: embedded and implicit language policing in the internationalized workplace.

Making sense of the Sense Model: translation priming with Japanese-English bilinguals (2015)
Journal Article
Allen, D., Conklin, K., & van Heuven, W. J. (2015). Making sense of the Sense Model: translation priming with Japanese-English bilinguals. Mental Lexicon, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.10.1.02all

Many studies have reported that first language (L1) translation primes speed responses to second language (L2) targets, whereas L2 translation primes generally do not speed up responses to L1 targets in lexical decision. According to the Sense Model... Read More about Making sense of the Sense Model: translation priming with Japanese-English bilinguals.