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Performing health identities on social media: an online observation of Facebook profiles (2015)
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The increasing role of online technology in mediating our accounts and experiences of health and illness is now well recognised. Whereas earlier research has examined the language of support groups and institutional websites, attention is increasingl... Read More about Performing health identities on social media: an online observation of Facebook profiles.

Intertextual Relations: James Joyce and William Shakespeare in Angela Carter's Wise Children (2015)
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© 2015 The Author. Angela Carter's feminist appropriation of William Shakespeare's plots in Wise Children (1991) is well recognized. This article proposes that the novel also makes sustained references to the life and work of James Joyce and thereby... Read More about Intertextual Relations: James Joyce and William Shakespeare in Angela Carter's Wise Children.

The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses (2015)
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As researchers and practitioners are becoming more aware of the importance of multi-word items in English, there is little doubt that phrasal verbs deserve teaching attention in the classroom. However, there are thousands of phrasal verbs in English,... Read More about The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses.

Review: a brief history of Seven killings by Marlon James (2015)
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“Always the same stairs, always the same room”: the uncanny architecture of Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight (2015)
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Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight (1939) is a novel that returns obsessively to the uncanny architecture of the Parisian hotel, through providing insight into the deracinated experiences of protagonist Sasha Jansen, a woman existing at the peripheri... Read More about “Always the same stairs, always the same room”: the uncanny architecture of Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight.

The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed (2015)
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This article analyses a collection of cases from video recordings of naturally occurring interaction in institutional settings, where members display an orientation to the presence of the recording equipment. Such instances have been treated elsewher... Read More about The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed.

Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research (2015)
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In this paper, we outline an online survey-based study seeking to understand academic attitudes towards social media research ethics (SMRE). As the exploratory phase of a wider research project, findings are discussed in relation to the responses of... Read More about Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research.

Incidental L2 vocabulary acquisition from and while reading (2015)
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Previous studies have shown that reading is an important source of incidental L2 vocabulary acquisition. However, we still do not have a clear picture of what happens when readers encounter unknown words. Combining off-line (vocabulary tests) and onl... Read More about Incidental L2 vocabulary acquisition from and while reading.

The roared-at boys? Repertory casting and gender politics in the RSC's 2014 Swan season (2015)
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This essay interrogates the loading of the “Roaring Girls” season by asking what it means to “roar” in both the early modern period and twenty-first century, unpacking the terms on which the women of these productions are empowered or undermined thro... Read More about The roared-at boys? Repertory casting and gender politics in the RSC's 2014 Swan season.

A "tottering lace-like architecture of ruins”: the wartime home in Elizabeth Bowen’s The heat of the day (2015)
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Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day (1949) is a novel permeated with the architectural ruins of the Second World War. This article is concerned with the shock effects the war had on Bowen’s understanding of the material world and the resultant impl... Read More about A "tottering lace-like architecture of ruins”: the wartime home in Elizabeth Bowen’s The heat of the day.

More than skin deep: dissecting Donne’s imagery of humours (2015)
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This article explores John Donne’s imagery of humoral complexions in verse letters to patrons and in sermons. In the early modern period, the term ‘complexion’ referred to a person’s unique mixture of humours, the four bodily fluids thought to determ... Read More about More than skin deep: dissecting Donne’s imagery of humours.

The naming of Guthlac (2015)
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This study discusses the passages in Felix’s Vita Sancti Guthlaci which refer to the naming of the saint. It suggests that Felix’s ideas as to the source and meaning of the name are problematic in that they do not obviously reflect vernacular naming... Read More about The naming of Guthlac.

The many faces of diabetes: a critical multimodal analysis of diabetes pages on Facebook (2015)
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Health communication published on Facebook has become a popular source of medical information and large organisations now utilise Facebook to disseminate multimodal representations of health and illness. Drawing on a sample of posts to two popular di... Read More about The many faces of diabetes: a critical multimodal analysis of diabetes pages on Facebook.

'What was your blood sugar reading this morning?': representing diabetes self-management on Facebook (2015)
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Social networking sites have swiftly become a salient venue for the production and consumption of neoliberal health discourse by individuals and organisations. These platforms offer both opportunities for individuals to accrue coping resources and a... Read More about 'What was your blood sugar reading this morning?': representing diabetes self-management on Facebook.

The exemplary poetry of Geoffrey Hill: authority and exemplarity in A Treatise of Civil Power (2015)
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Geoffrey Hill's ethical anxieties turn on a tension between aesthetic autonomy and engagement with the polis, a tension illuminated by his adumbration of an exemplary poetics. ‘Exemplarity’ is characterized by a similar tension between intransitive a... Read More about The exemplary poetry of Geoffrey Hill: authority and exemplarity in A Treatise of Civil Power.

Dutch and German 3-year-olds’ representations of voicing alternations (2015)
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The voicing contrast is neutralised syllable and word finally in Dutch and German, leading to alternations within the morphological paradigm (e.g. Dutch ‘bed(s)’, be[t] be[d]en, German ‘dog(s)’, Hun[t]-Hun[d]e). Despite structural similarity, languag... Read More about Dutch and German 3-year-olds’ representations of voicing alternations.

The *meres?te of northwest Shropshire (2015)
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UK policy on social networking sites and online health: from informed patient to informed consumer? (2015)
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Background: Social networking sites offer new opportunities for communication between and amongst health care professionals, patients and members of the public. In doing so, they have the potential to facilitate public access to health care informati... Read More about UK policy on social networking sites and online health: from informed patient to informed consumer?.

Mind-modelling with corpus stylistics in David Copperfield (2015)
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We suggest an innovative approach to literary discourse by using corpus linguistic methods to address research questions from cognitive poetics. In this article, we focus on the way that readers engage in mind-modelling in the process of characterisa... Read More about Mind-modelling with corpus stylistics in David Copperfield.

Cross language priming extends to formulaic units: evidence from eye-tracking suggests that this idea “has legs” (2015)
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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”.