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Is what you put in what you get out? Textbook-derived lexical bundle processing in beginner English learners (2018)
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Usage-based approaches to second language acquisition put a premium on the linguistic input that learners receive and predict that any sequences of words that learners encounter frequently will experience a processing advantage. The current study exp... Read More about Is what you put in what you get out? Textbook-derived lexical bundle processing in beginner English learners.

Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German (2018)
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This paper provides an overview of verbal markers of evidentiality in Early Modern German (1650-1800) in light of Boye’s propositional scope hypothesis. The markers under investigation include the semi-auxiliary scheinen ‘to shine, appear, seem’ and... Read More about Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German.

D. H. Lawrence, Rananim and Gilbert Cannan's Windmills (2018)
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© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press 2018; all rights reserved. Biographers and critics of D. H. Lawrence have long recognized the significance of his various schemes to establish small utopian communities in locations such as F... Read More about D. H. Lawrence, Rananim and Gilbert Cannan's Windmills.

Literary stylistics, authorial intention and the scientific study of literature: a critical overview (2018)
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A tendency by literary stylisticians to overlook the role of the author in the generation of literary meaning has been a significant source of tension between linguistic approaches to literariness and other practices in the discipline, such as text-e... Read More about Literary stylistics, authorial intention and the scientific study of literature: a critical overview.

Examining the emotional impact of sarcasm using a virtual environment (2018)
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This study aimed to investigate the emotional impact of sarcasm. Previous research in this area has mainly required participants to answer questions based on written materials, and results have been mixed. With the aim of instead examining the emotio... Read More about Examining the emotional impact of sarcasm using a virtual environment.

Digital innovations in L2 motivation: harnessing the power of the Ideal L2 Self (2018)
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Sustained motivation is crucial to learning a second language (L2), and one way to support this can be through the mental visualisation of ideal L2 selves (Dörnyei & Kubanyiova, 2014). This paper reports on an exploratory study which investigated the... Read More about Digital innovations in L2 motivation: harnessing the power of the Ideal L2 Self.

"Helping you to pay us": rapport management in debt collection call centre encounters (2018)
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This paper investigates the rapport management (Spencer-Oatey 2005) that collections agents at a UK-based utilities company call centre are expected to perform during debt collection telephone interactions. It does so by examining the rapport-relevan... Read More about "Helping you to pay us": rapport management in debt collection call centre encounters.

The Uses of Medievalism in Early Modern England: Recovery, Temporality, and the “Passionating” of the Past (2018)
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The premodern past was desired and deployed in a myriad of different ways in sixteenth-century England. The period of the English Reformations produced a generative, complex, and paradoxical range of feelings for the premodern. Many sixteenth-century... Read More about The Uses of Medievalism in Early Modern England: Recovery, Temporality, and the “Passionating” of the Past.

One step at a time: representational overlap between active voice, be-passive, and get-passive forms in English (2018)
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The active voice and passive voice are complementary sentence forms that are available when describing a transitive event. In English, the latter has two variants: be-passive and get-passive. Numerous attempts have been made in the literature to repr... Read More about One step at a time: representational overlap between active voice, be-passive, and get-passive forms in English.

Multisite replication in SLA research: attention to form during listening and reading comprehension (2018)
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We conducted a multi-site replication study with aspects of pre-registration in order to explore the feasibility of such an approach in second language (L2) research. To this end, we addressed open questions in a line of research that has examined wh... Read More about Multisite replication in SLA research: attention to form during listening and reading comprehension.

Kate O'Brien in the theatre (2018)
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All hands on deck . Negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse (2018)
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Language Related Episodes occur when speakers explicitly question lexical and grammatical aspects of the language they are using, resulting in collaborative discourse and assisted performance from peers. This paper demonstrates how such negotiation a... Read More about All hands on deck . Negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse.

Emotional distress with dementia: a systematic review using corpus‐based analysis and metaethnography (2018)
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Objective: More understanding is needed about the emotional experiences of dementia from the perspective of the individual. This understanding can then inform the provision of health care to meet individual needs. This systematic review aimed to pres... Read More about Emotional distress with dementia: a systematic review using corpus‐based analysis and metaethnography.

Expression of empathy in a Facebook-based diabetes support group (2018)
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Existing studies show that people suffering from chronic illnesses turn to online health communities not only to share and check relevant factual information but also to receive and express empathy from/to their fellow sufferers. Indeed, along with s... Read More about Expression of empathy in a Facebook-based diabetes support group.

"I'm not proud, I'm just gay": lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness (2018)
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This article outlines the shared identity construction of five gay and lesbian members of an LGBT youth group, situated in a conservative, working-class, Northern English town. It is shown that the young people’s identity work emerges in response to... Read More about "I'm not proud, I'm just gay": lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness.

“A new continent of the soul”: D.H. Lawrence, Porthcothan and the necessary fiction of Cornwall (2017)
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Blaise (2017)
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Runes and commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England (2017)
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Runic inscriptions are of interest not only as evidence of language and literacy in early medieval England, but also of the cultural functions of the objects on which they appear. In this paper, we present three case studies to examine the ways in wh... Read More about Runes and commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England.

Analysing the opinions of UK veterinarians on practice-based research using corpus linguistic and mathematical methods (2017)
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The use of corpus linguistic techniques and other related mathematical analyses have rarely, if ever, been applied to qualitative data collected from the veterinary field. The aim of this study was to explore the use of a combination of corpus lingui... Read More about Analysing the opinions of UK veterinarians on practice-based research using corpus linguistic and mathematical methods.

‘An altered view regarding the relationship between dreams and reality’: magic, politics and the comics medium in Alan Moore and Jacen Burrow’s Providence (2017)
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Alan Moore reports that, through researching Providence, he ‘became more fully acquainted with academic literary criticism’ (Moore and Green 2016) and the extensive evidence of research throughout the series supports this claim. In this article, I ar... Read More about ‘An altered view regarding the relationship between dreams and reality’: magic, politics and the comics medium in Alan Moore and Jacen Burrow’s Providence.