Abled, disabled, enabled
(2014)
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The enactment of feeling: a stylistic analysis of love scenes in The Rainbow (2014)
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Jómsvíkinga Sǫgur and Jómsvíkinga Drápur: texts, contexts and intertexts (2014)
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Using theories of intertextuality the paper explores the implications of the complex transmission of Jómsvíkinga saga, with its multiple manuscripts, versions and cross-references in other texts. It then concentrates on the story-complex about the Jó... Read More about Jómsvíkinga Sǫgur and Jómsvíkinga Drápur: texts, contexts and intertexts.
Peddling a semiotics of fear: a critical examination of scare tactics and commercial strategies in public health promotion (2014)
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This study critically examines the ways in which the nationwide Diabetes UK/Tesco public health promotion campaign (2013-2014) sought to raise awareness of Type 2 diabetes. Conducting a multimodal critical discourse analysis of six campaign images, w... Read More about Peddling a semiotics of fear: a critical examination of scare tactics and commercial strategies in public health promotion.
The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations (2014)
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The study investigated L2 learners’ acquisition of verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations following two kinds of instruction: input flood only and input flood plus input enhancement (in the form of underlining). L1 Polish learners of English as a... Read More about The role of input flood and input enhancement in EFL learners’ acquisition of collocations.
The role of verbal and pictorial information in multimodal incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary (2014)
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© 2014 The Author. Published by Taylor & Francis. This study used eye tracking to investigate the allocation of attention to multimodal stimuli during an incidental learning situation, as well as its impact on subsequent explicit learning. Particip... Read More about The role of verbal and pictorial information in multimodal incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary.
The date of composition of D.H. Lawrence's 'Laura Philippine' (2014)
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This note draws on new archival evidence to correctly date the composition of D. H. Lawrence's article 'Laura Philippine'.
Size and depth of vocabulary knowledge: what the research shows (2014)
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When discussing vocabulary, a distinction is often made between size of vocabulary (number of known words) and depth of knowledge (how well those words are known). However, the relationship between the two constructs is still unclear. Some scholars a... Read More about Size and depth of vocabulary knowledge: what the research shows.
Spelling errors and keywords in born-digital data: a case study using the Teenage Health Freak Corpus (2014)
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The abundance of language data that is now available in digital form, and the rise of distinct language varieties that are used for digital communication, means that issues of non-standard spellings and spelling errors are, in future, likely to becom... Read More about Spelling errors and keywords in born-digital data: a case study using the Teenage Health Freak Corpus.
Reading Dickens’s characters: employing psycholinguistic methods to investigate the cognitive reality of patterns in texts (2014)
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This article reports the findings of an empirical study that uses eye-tracking and follow-up interviews as methods to investigate how participants read body language clusters in novels by Charles Dickens. The study builds on previous corpus stylistic... Read More about Reading Dickens’s characters: employing psycholinguistic methods to investigate the cognitive reality of patterns in texts.
The role of repeated exposure to multimodal input in incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary (2014)
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Prior research has reported incidental vocabulary acquisition with complete beginners in a foreign language (FL), within 8 exposures to auditory and written FL word forms presented with a picture depicting their meaning. However, important questions... Read More about The role of repeated exposure to multimodal input in incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary.
A reassessment of frequency and vocabulary size in L2 vocabulary teaching (2014)
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The high-frequency vocabulary of English has traditionally been thought to consist of the 2,000 most frequent word families, and low-frequency vocabulary as that beyond the 10,000 frequency level. This paper argues that these boundaries should be rea... Read More about A reassessment of frequency and vocabulary size in L2 vocabulary teaching.
Getting your wires crossed: evidence for fast processing of L1 idioms in an L2 (2014)
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Monolingual speakers show priming for idiomatic sequences (e.g. a pain in the neck) relative to matched controls (e.g. a pain in the foot); single word translation equivalents show cross-language activation (e.g. dog–chien) for bilinguals. If the lex... Read More about Getting your wires crossed: evidence for fast processing of L1 idioms in an L2.
"An infinitude of Possible Worlds": towards a research method for hypertext fiction (2014)
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While the investigation of creative writing as a research method is gathering apace, little work has been done into the specific case of hypertext fiction (fiction written through a digital medium). This paper argues that, while there remain certain... Read More about "An infinitude of Possible Worlds": towards a research method for hypertext fiction.
Transformations of Byron in the literature of British India (2014)
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This essay examines the reception of Byron’s work, and some responses to it, among the poets of the British community in India during the first half of the nineteenth century. The first section sketches some of the routes by which Byron’s work and a... Read More about Transformations of Byron in the literature of British India.
CANELC: constructing an e-language corpus (2014)
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This paper reports on the construction of CANELC: the Cambridge and Nottingham e-language Corpus.3 CANELC is a one million word corpus of digital communication in English, taken from online discussion boards, blogs, tweets, emails and SMS messages. T... Read More about CANELC: constructing an e-language corpus.
CANELC: constructing an e-language corpus (2014)
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This paper reports on the construction of the Cambridge and Nottingham e-language Corpus (CANELC). This corpus has been built as part of a collaborative project between the University of Nottingham and Cambridge University Press with whom sole cop... Read More about CANELC: constructing an e-language corpus.
Waxing into words: Virginia Woolf and the Westminster Abbey funeral effigies (2014)
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This articles derives its methodology from an analysis of the figures in the historical collection of royal funeral effigies in Westminster Abbey, London. As historical representations these resist categorisation: are they to be read as human and pro... Read More about Waxing into words: Virginia Woolf and the Westminster Abbey funeral effigies.
"Not an idle spectator": Geoffrey Hill as model reviewer (2014)
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Geoffrey Hill’s prose has prompted longstanding critical controversy, much of which turns on the perceived difficulty, intransigence and anachronism of his oeuvre as a whole. This paper proposes that new ways to navigate this controversy can be found... Read More about "Not an idle spectator": Geoffrey Hill as model reviewer.