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Processing punctuation and word changes in different editions of prose fiction (2015)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Authorship in the eighteenth century (2015)
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This essay looks at different questions facing authorship in the eighteenth century, from the widespread use of anonymity, and its consequences; the perception of an over-abundance of authors, and the related fear of a massive cultural decline; the w... Read More about Authorship in the eighteenth century.

Attributing minds to vampires in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend (2015)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Eye-tracking multi-word units: some methodological questions (2015)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Old English s?ta and s?tan names (2015)
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How much collocation knowledge do L2 learners have?: the effects of frequency and amount of exposure (2015)
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Many scholars believe that collocations are difficult to learn and use by L2 learners. However, some research suggests that learners often know more collocations than commonly thought. This study tested 108 Spanish learners of English to measure thei... Read More about How much collocation knowledge do L2 learners have?: the effects of frequency and amount of exposure.

Assessing vocabulary size through multiple-choice formats: issues with guessing and sampling rates (2015)
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In most tests of vocabulary size, knowledge is assessed through multiple-choice formats. Despite advantages such as ease of scoring, multiple-choice tests (MCT) are accompanied with problems. One of the more central issues has to do with guessing and... Read More about Assessing vocabulary size through multiple-choice formats: issues with guessing and sampling rates.

Literature, geography and the postmodern poetics of place by Eric Prieto. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 [review] (2015)
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Implicit homophobic argument structure: equal marriage discourse in the Moral maze (2015)
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This article analyses the linguistic and discursive elements which contribute to the production of implicit homophobia. Explicit homophobia has been well documented and strategies for countering discriminatory language have been developed (Baker, 201... Read More about Implicit homophobic argument structure: equal marriage discourse in the Moral maze.

Further letters of D.H. Lawrence (2015)
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[Letters by D.H. Lawrence, edited and translated by John Worthen and Andrew Harrison.]

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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