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Adjustment-style: from H. G. Wells to Ali Smith and the metamodern novel (2021)
Journal Article
Masters, B. (2021). Adjustment-style: from H. G. Wells to Ali Smith and the metamodern novel. Textual Practice, 35(6), 967-995. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2021.1935750

The Wells-James debate about the function of the novel has influenced decades of formalist and humanist criticism that has elevated Henry James as the quintessential ethical stylist and struggled to come to terms with H.G. Wells's literary artistry.... Read More about Adjustment-style: from H. G. Wells to Ali Smith and the metamodern novel.

Legal custom & Lex Castrensis?: using law and literature to navigate the North-Sea neighbourhood in the late Viking Age (2021)
Book Chapter
Ruiter, K. (2021). Legal custom & Lex Castrensis?: using law and literature to navigate the North-Sea neighbourhood in the late Viking Age. In D. H. Steinforth, & C. C. Rozier (Eds.), Britain and its neighbours: cultural contacts and exchanges in Medieval and early modern Europe. London: Routledge

In his Lex Castrensis, the thirteenth-century Danish writer Sven Aggesen tells the story of the creation of a law that he attributes to Knútr inn ríki (Cnut the Great) as a means of governing his substantial military following of retainers, known as... Read More about Legal custom & Lex Castrensis?: using law and literature to navigate the North-Sea neighbourhood in the late Viking Age.

Examining the influence of perspective and prosody on expected emotional responses to irony: Evidence from event-related brain potentials (2021)
Journal Article
Thompson, D., Leuthold, H., & Filik, R. (2021). Examining the influence of perspective and prosody on expected emotional responses to irony: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(2), 107-113. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000249

Ironic language is typically more difficult to process and interpret than a literal equivalent, hence is assumed to serve several social and emotional functions not achieved by literal communication (such as politeness or introducing humour). Several... Read More about Examining the influence of perspective and prosody on expected emotional responses to irony: Evidence from event-related brain potentials.

Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit (2021)
Journal Article
Thul, R., Conklin, K., & Barr, D. J. (2021). Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit. Journal of Memory and Language, 120, Article 104247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2021.104247

Data from each subject in a repeated-measures experiment forms a time series , which may include trial-by-trial fluctuations arising from human factors such as practice or fatigue. Concerns about the statistical implications of such effects have incr... Read More about Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit.

Racial slurs and perception of racism in Heart of Darkness (2021)
Journal Article
Mastropierro, L., & Conklin, K. (2021). Racial slurs and perception of racism in Heart of Darkness. Journal of Literary Semantics, 50(1), 25-41. https://doi.org/10.1515/jls-2021-2028

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of the racial slursniggerandnegroinHeart of Darknesson readers’perception of dehumanisation,discrimination, and racism. It compares data collected through online question-naires to test whether the... Read More about Racial slurs and perception of racism in Heart of Darkness.

Consuming the Royal Body: Stillness, Scopophilia, and Aura in Lear and Macbeth on Screen (2021)
Journal Article
Kirwan, P. (2021). Consuming the Royal Body: Stillness, Scopophilia, and Aura in Lear and Macbeth on Screen. Shakespeare Bulletin, 39(1), 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2021.0011

Drawing on Hilary Mantel's evocation of the frozen body of the monarch as an object to be gazed upon and consumed, this article revisits three cinematic Shakespearean films in order to demonstrate the ways in which kings are made abject. By applying... Read More about Consuming the Royal Body: Stillness, Scopophilia, and Aura in Lear and Macbeth on Screen.

Linguistic Analysis of Online Communication About a Novel Persecutory Belief System (Gangstalking): Mixed Methods Study (2021)
Journal Article
Lustig, A., Brookes, G., & Hunt, D. (2021). Linguistic Analysis of Online Communication About a Novel Persecutory Belief System (Gangstalking): Mixed Methods Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(3), Article e25722. https://doi.org/10.2196/25722

Background: Gangstalking is a novel persecutory belief system whereby those affected believe they are being followed, stalked, and harassed by a large number of people, often numbering in the thousands. The harassment is experienced as an accretion o... Read More about Linguistic Analysis of Online Communication About a Novel Persecutory Belief System (Gangstalking): Mixed Methods Study.

Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives (2021)
Journal Article
Zottola, A., Jones, L., Pilnick, A., & Mullany, L. (2021). Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives. Health Expectations, 24(2), 719-727. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13222

Background This paper presents an analysis of 32 narratives written by patients waiting for assessment at a transgender health clinic (THC) in England. Narratives are autobiographical free texts, designed to allow patients to describe in their own... Read More about Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives.

Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free?text autobiographical narratives (2021)
Journal Article
Zottola, A., Jones, L., Pilnick, A., Mullany, L., Bouman, W. P., & Arcelus, J. (2021). Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free?text autobiographical narratives. Health Expectations, 24(2), 719-727. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13222

Background: This paper presents an analysis of 32 narratives written by patients waiting for assessment at a transgender health clinic (THC) in England. Narratives are autobiographical free texts, designed to allow patients to describe in their own w... Read More about Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free?text autobiographical narratives.

Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives (2021)
Journal Article
Zottola, A., Jones, L., Pilnick, A., Mullany, L., Bouman, W. P., & Arcelus, J. (2021). Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives. Health Expectations, 24(2), 719-727. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13222

Background This paper presents an analysis of 32 narratives written by patients waiting for assessment at a transgender health clinic (THC) in England. Narratives are autobiographical free texts, designed to allow patients to describe in their own w... Read More about Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives.

Playlets (2021)
Book
Bernard Shaw, G. (2021). J. Moran (Ed.), Playlets. Oxford University Press (OUP)

Queer linguistics and identity : the past decade (2021)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2021). Queer linguistics and identity : the past decade. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 10(1), 13-24. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00010.jon

In this short essay, I offer some reflections on language and sexuality work over the past decade. My discussion is focused on the increasing influence of queer theory, in particular, and I comment on trends in research into language and queer identi... Read More about Queer linguistics and identity : the past decade.

Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography (2021)
Book Chapter
Jordan, S. (2021). Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography. In Writing Remains New Intersections of Archaeology, Literature and Science (95-116). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350109490.ch-004

The chapter examines the interdependencies between fiction and archaeology through the analysis of psychogeography, a broad and ever expanding genre that mixes archaeological and historical fact with fiction. Critical to this analysis is an understan... Read More about Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography.

The Effect of Auditory Input on Multimodal Reading Comprehension: An Examination of Adult Readers’ Eye Movements (2021)
Journal Article
Pellicer-Sánchez, A., Conklin, K., Rodgers, M. P. H., & Parente, F. (2021). The Effect of Auditory Input on Multimodal Reading Comprehension: An Examination of Adult Readers’ Eye Movements. Modern Language Journal, 105(4), 936-956. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12743

Comprehension of many types of texts involves constructing meaning from text and pictures. However, research examining how second language (L2) learners process text and pictures and the relationship with comprehension is scarce. Thus, while verbal i... Read More about The Effect of Auditory Input on Multimodal Reading Comprehension: An Examination of Adult Readers’ Eye Movements.

Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech (2020)
Journal Article
Royan, N. (2020). Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 64, 61-86. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.NMS.5.127657

The representation of women is often used as a critical touchstone for the re-assessment of many medieval texts: this is also true of discussions of Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid and Gavin Douglas’s Eneados. This essay compares these po... Read More about Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech.