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What is Hate Speech? The Case for a Corpus Approach (2023)
Journal Article

Contemporary public discourse is saturated with speech that vilifies and incites hatred or violence against vulnerable groups. The term “hate speech” has emerged in legal circles and in ordinary language to refer to these communicative acts. But lega... Read More about What is Hate Speech? The Case for a Corpus Approach.

The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19 (2023)
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Understanding what makes communication effective when designing public health messages is of key importance. This applies in particular to vaccination campaigns, which aim to encourage vaccine uptake and respond to vaccine hesitancy and dispel any my... Read More about The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19.

Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres (2023)
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This article provides a corpus-driven overview of the ‘epistemic space’ surrounding the use of two lockwords of Early and Late Modern writings on midwifery and childbirth, child and uterus. Rather than searching for epistemic stance markers themselve... Read More about Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres.

Ambiguity Resolution in Passivized Idioms: Is There a Shift in the Most Likely Interpretation? (2022)
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Ambiguous but canonical idioms (kick the bucket) are processed fast in both their figurative (“die”) and literal (“boot the pail”) senses, although processing costs associated with meaning integration may emerge in postidiom regions. Modified version... Read More about Ambiguity Resolution in Passivized Idioms: Is There a Shift in the Most Likely Interpretation?.

The Battle of Brunanburh: The Yorkshire Hypothesis (2022)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Spellings of Brunanburh Revisited (2022)
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The article considers the question whether the spellings of the name Brunanburh and Brunnanburh in texts relating to King Athelstan’s battle of 937 indicate the existence of two different places with very similar names, as proposed by Michael Wood. I... Read More about Spellings of Brunanburh Revisited.

“Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context (2022)
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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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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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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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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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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.