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The Battle of Brunanburh: The Yorkshire Hypothesis (2022)
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Cavill, P. (2023). The Battle of Brunanburh: The Yorkshire Hypothesis. English Studies, 104(1), 19-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2022.2154045

Disputes about where the battle of Brunanburh in 937 was fought continue, but in recent years one particular area, Yorkshire, has been proposed by Michael Wood. This article re-examines some of the strategic detail underlying assumptions about York a... Read More about The Battle of Brunanburh: The Yorkshire Hypothesis.

Artist Development and Collective Therapy in the Repertory: The Case of After Edward (2022)
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Kirwan, P. (in press). Artist Development and Collective Therapy in the Repertory: The Case of After Edward. Early Theatre, 25(2), https://doi.org/10.12745/et.25.2.4733

This article discusses the exploration of the repertory model in Tom Stuart’s 2019 play After Edward, produced at Shakespeare’s Globe. Performed in repertory with a production of Edward II, After Edward dramatizes Diana Taylor’s sense of repertoire;... Read More about Artist Development and Collective Therapy in the Repertory: The Case of After Edward.

A case study of the Ancientbiotics collaboration (2022)
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Connelly, E., Lee, C., Furner-Pardoe, J., del Genio, C. I., & Harrison, F. (2022). A case study of the Ancientbiotics collaboration. Patterns, 3(12), Article 100632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2022.100632

Collaborations that cross traditional boundaries between disciplines in STEM and the arts and humanities open up exciting research possibilities. In our team’s case, we combined expertise in historical manuscripts, data science, and microbiology to e... Read More about A case study of the Ancientbiotics collaboration.

Discursive acts of resistance: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of All-Poland Women’s Strike’s social media (2022)
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Chałupnik, M., & Brookes, G. (2022). Discursive acts of resistance: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of All-Poland Women’s Strike’s social media. Gender and Language, 16(3), 308-333. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.20148

Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet (All-Poland Women’s Strike) is a grassroots campaign established in Poland in 2016 in response to the proposed tightening of abortion laws but which also engages with broader social, feminist and women’s rights issues. Usin... Read More about Discursive acts of resistance: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of All-Poland Women’s Strike’s social media.

The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
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McClaughlin, E., Vilar-Lluch, S., Parnell, T., Knight, D., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., …Schiazza, G. (2023). The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 3(1), Article 100037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100037

Understanding the reception of public health messages in public-facing communications is of key importance to health agencies in managing crises, pandemics, and other health threats. Established public health communications strategi... Read More about The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Towards a corpus-based description of speech-gesture units of meaning: The case of the circular gesture (2022)
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Chen, Y., & Adolphs, S. (2022). Towards a corpus-based description of speech-gesture units of meaning: The case of the circular gesture. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.20174.che

The theories and methods in corpus linguistics (CL) have had an impact on numerous areas in applied linguistics. However, the interface between CL and multimodal speech-gesture studies remains underexplored. One fundamental question is whether it is... Read More about Towards a corpus-based description of speech-gesture units of meaning: The case of the circular gesture.

Representing Behavioral Pathology: The Importance of Modality in Medical Descriptions of Conduct, ADHD as Case Study (2022)
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Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Representing Behavioral Pathology: The Importance of Modality in Medical Descriptions of Conduct, ADHD as Case Study. Health Communication, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2129649

This paper examines the role of modality resources (e.g. “may,” “often”) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in representing behavioral pathology focusing, in particular, on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (A... Read More about Representing Behavioral Pathology: The Importance of Modality in Medical Descriptions of Conduct, ADHD as Case Study.

Boucicault-O’Casey-Hansberry: Tracing a Line of Influence (2022)
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Moran, J. (2022). Boucicault-O’Casey-Hansberry: Tracing a Line of Influence. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 49(2), 165–181. https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727221115038

In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway after a successful tour. This remarkable performance featured a black cast, and staged a generation that was beginning to find intellectual sources of race pride. By contrast,... Read More about Boucicault-O’Casey-Hansberry: Tracing a Line of Influence.

‘I'm a boy, can't you see that?’: Dialogic embodiment and the construction of agency in trans youth discourse (2022)
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Jones, L. (2022). ‘I'm a boy, can't you see that?’: Dialogic embodiment and the construction of agency in trans youth discourse. Language in Society, 52(4), 549-570. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404522000252

This article offers discourse analysis of young transgender people’s interaction, in which they describe being rendered powerless through misgendering or misrepresentation. It argues that the young people’s collective responses to these moments enabl... Read More about ‘I'm a boy, can't you see that?’: Dialogic embodiment and the construction of agency in trans youth discourse.

‘Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’: Discourse representations of men in an online vegan community (2022)
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Brookes, G., & Chałupnik, M. (2022). ‘Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’: Discourse representations of men in an online vegan community. Discourse, Context and Media, 49, Article 100640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100640

This article critically examines discourse representations of men in a large online vegan community. The analysis reveals a set of discourses which provide oppositional representations of vegan and non-vegan men, wherein the former is aligned with he... Read More about ‘Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’: Discourse representations of men in an online vegan community.

“Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context (2022)
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Sonbul, S., El-Dakhs, D. A. S., Conklin, K., & Carrol, G. (2023). “Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45(2), 370-392. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263122000237

Little is known about how non-native speakers process novel language patterns in the input they encounter. The present study examines whether non-natives develop a sensitivity to novel binomials and their ordering preference from context. Thirty-nine... Read More about “Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context.

Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19 (2022)
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Sun, X., & Chałupnik, M. (2022). Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19. Discourse and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265221096029

In the context of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, female medical staff constituted a large proportion of frontline healthcare workers in China, with 50% of doctors and over 90% of nurses being women. In this paper, we aim to examine how these... Read More about Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19.

Proficiency, language of assessment, and attention to meaning and form during L2 comprehension: Methodological considerations in L2 replication research (2022)
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Szudarski, P., & Mikołajczak, S. (2023). Proficiency, language of assessment, and attention to meaning and form during L2 comprehension: Methodological considerations in L2 replication research. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45(1), 276-288. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263122000171

This study is a replication and extension of Morgan-Short et al.'s (2018) investigation into the role of attention in input processing by L1-Polish learners of L2-Spanish, with proficiency and language of assessment explored as two key methodological... Read More about Proficiency, language of assessment, and attention to meaning and form during L2 comprehension: Methodological considerations in L2 replication research.

Escaping from Brunanburh and John of Worcester (2022)
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Cavill, P. (2022). Escaping from Brunanburh and John of Worcester. English Studies, 103(6), 899-919. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2022.2067708

The battle around Brunanburh in 937 has aroused debate particularly about where it was fought. Many locations have been suggested and a serious contender, Bromborough on the Wirral, has often been too easily dismissed. The article examines some of th... Read More about Escaping from Brunanburh and John of Worcester.

Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change (2022)
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Garcia, S. B., Chałupnik, M., Irving, K., & Haselgrove, M. (2022). Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change. Behavioral Sciences, 12(4), Article 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12040108

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major public health challenge. Although theoretically informed public health campaigns are more effective for changing behaviour, there is little evidence of their use when campaigns are commissioned to th... Read More about Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change.

‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen (2022)
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Jones, L., Chałupnik, M., Mackenzie, J., & Mullany, L. (2022). ‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen. Discourse, Context and Media, 47, Article 100596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100596

This article focuses on the strategies that were used to resist misogyny on the microblogging platform Twitter during March 2021, a time when the hashtag #NotAllMen was trending. We take a critical feminist approach, combining corpus linguistics with... Read More about ‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen.

Donkey Discourse: Corpus Linguistics and Charity Communications for Improved Animal Welfare (2022)
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McClaughlin, E., Clancy, C., & Cooke, F. (2022). Donkey Discourse: Corpus Linguistics and Charity Communications for Improved Animal Welfare. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 2(2), Article 100019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100019

A corpus linguistic approach has been applied to examine the representation of donkeys in public discourses for an international equid welfare charity (The Donkey Sanctuary) with a view to improving the British public's understanding of the roles of... Read More about Donkey Discourse: Corpus Linguistics and Charity Communications for Improved Animal Welfare.

How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality (2022)
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Paquette-Smith, M., Buckler, H., & Johnson, E. K. (2023). How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(3), 485-496. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221094312

When university students are asked to rate their instructors, their evaluations are often influenced by the demographic characteristics of the instructor—such as the instructor’s race, gender, or language background. These influences can manifest in... Read More about How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality.

Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom (2022)
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NORLEDGE, J. (2022). Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom. English Studies, 103(3), 386-406

The experience of nonhuman animals is typically neglected in dystopian fiction, particularly as concerns the experiences of domestic pets. The presence of such creatures in dystopia is often notable only by their absence, with animal life (or the lac... Read More about Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom.