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‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen (2022)
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This article focuses on the strategies that were used to resist misogyny on the microblogging platform Twitter during March 2021, a time when the hashtag #NotAllMen was trending. We take a critical feminist approach, combining corpus linguistics with... Read More about ‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen.

Donkey Discourse: Corpus Linguistics and Charity Communications for Improved Animal Welfare (2022)
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A corpus linguistic approach has been applied to examine the representation of donkeys in public discourses for an international equid welfare charity (The Donkey Sanctuary) with a view to improving the British public's understanding of the roles of... Read More about Donkey Discourse: Corpus Linguistics and Charity Communications for Improved Animal Welfare.

How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality (2022)
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When university students are asked to rate their instructors, their evaluations are often influenced by the demographic characteristics of the instructor—such as the instructor’s race, gender, or language background. These influences can manifest in... Read More about How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality.

Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom (2022)
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The experience of nonhuman animals is typically neglected in dystopian fiction, particularly as concerns the experiences of domestic pets. The presence of such creatures in dystopia is often notable only by their absence, with animal life (or the lac... Read More about Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom.

Militant, annoying and sexy: a corpus-based study of representations of vegans in the British press (2022)
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This article examines discourse representations of vegans in UK newspapers, comparing broadsheets with tabloids published between 2016 and 2020. Taking a corpus-based approach to CDA, we identify a series of discourses, some of which overlap between... Read More about Militant, annoying and sexy: a corpus-based study of representations of vegans in the British press.

Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour (2022)
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This article considers the application of the Attitude framework (Martin & White 2005) to study the evaluation of human behaviour. The distinction between inscribed (explicit) and invoked (indirect) attitude is re-examined and systematised to better... Read More about Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour.

Word order effect in collocation processing (2021)
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Collocations are words associated because of their frequent co-occurrence, which makes them predictable and leads to facilitated processing. While there have been suggestions that collocations are stored as unanalysed chunks, other researchers disagr... Read More about Word order effect in collocation processing.

Navigating Accent Variation: A Developmental Perspective (2021)
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Adult processing of other-accented speech is fast, dependent on lexical access, and readily generalizable to new words. But what does children's processing of other-accented speech look like? Although many acquisition researchers have emphasized how... Read More about Navigating Accent Variation: A Developmental Perspective.

Storying selves and others at work Story ownership, tellership and functions of narratives in a workplace domain (2021)
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This paper engages with the relationship between story ownership - so who owns a story, tellership - so who has the right to tell it, and functions of workplace narratives as well as the broader social practices at work. Drawing upon discourse and na... Read More about Storying selves and others at work Story ownership, tellership and functions of narratives in a workplace domain.

‘I had to work through what people would think of me’: negotiating ‘problematic single motherhood’ as a solo or single adoptive mum (2021)
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This article considers how five single mothers, who used adoption or donor conception to bring children into their lives, negotiate a persistent and pervasive discourse of ‘problematic single motherhood’ in their interview talk. Tactics of intersubje... Read More about ‘I had to work through what people would think of me’: negotiating ‘problematic single motherhood’ as a solo or single adoptive mum.

External points of view in the PrEPUK News Corpus (2021)
Journal Article

This work examines the use of reported external points of view (EPVs), with a focus on quotations, in a corpus of U.K. news coverage of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). Forms of external attribution have been shown to be a prominent feature of news d... Read More about External points of view in the PrEPUK News Corpus.

Serving Venus: Attitudes to Authority in The House of Fame, The Kingis Quair and The Palice of Honoure (2021)
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While Douglas's debt to Chaucer's House of Fame has received critical attention, there has been less attention to his more immediate Scottish literary context. This article considers the poem's textual parallels with The Kingis Quair, in particular... Read More about Serving Venus: Attitudes to Authority in The House of Fame, The Kingis Quair and The Palice of Honoure.

'Did You See That?' - The Role of Repetition and Enhancement on Lexical Bundle Processing in English Learning Materials (2021)
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For second-language learners, the use of formulaic language can benefit processing. Previous studies have explored the development of a 'processing advantage' for lexical bundles and investigated whether learning materials can be optimized via repeti... Read More about 'Did You See That?' - The Role of Repetition and Enhancement on Lexical Bundle Processing in English Learning Materials.

Review of Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Cadierno & Castañeda Castro (2019): Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2 (2021)
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The effect of input modes and number of exposures on the learning of L2 binomials (2021)
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Despite the importance of mastering different types of formulaic sequences in a second language, little is known about the relative effect of different input modes on their acquisition. This study explores the learning of a particular type of formula... Read More about The effect of input modes and number of exposures on the learning of L2 binomials.

A Global Perspective on Testing Infants Online: Introducing ManyBabies-AtHome (2021)
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Online testing holds great promise for infant scientists. It could increase participant diversity, improve reproducibility and collaborative possibilities, and reduce costs for researchers and participants. However, despite the rise of platforms and... Read More about A Global Perspective on Testing Infants Online: Introducing ManyBabies-AtHome.

(Re)Examining the Benefits of Pre-Reading Instruction for Vocabulary Learning (2021)
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Literature, Democracy and the Object: from Lukács to Rancière and Back (2021)
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The idea of “literary democracy” can be traced back to the early twentieth century, which this article does by looking initially at the work of Georg Lukács. His distinctly humanist view of literary democracy resonates with other key thinkers, includ... Read More about Literature, Democracy and the Object: from Lukács to Rancière and Back.

'You said, we did': A corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites (2021)
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In recent years, social and political commentators have criticised the ongoing marketisation of the UK's state-based healthcare system, the National Health Service (NHS). This paper examines the websites of 187 NHS's Clinical Commissioning Groups (CC... Read More about 'You said, we did': A corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites.

Framing trauma leaders’ request in emergency care interactions A multimodal analysis using eye-tracking glasses (2021)
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A team leader’s request is a crucial factor for successful team interaction to ensure patient safety in emergency care. This study examines how team leaders accomplish and frame immediate requests through language use and corresponding eye-movement p... Read More about Framing trauma leaders’ request in emergency care interactions A multimodal analysis using eye-tracking glasses.