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The Edinburgh companion to fin-de-siècle literature, culture and the arts (2017)
Book
Guy, J. (2017). J. Guy (Ed.). The Edinburgh companion to fin-de-siècle literature, culture and the arts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

The late nineteenth-century fin de siècle has proved an enduringly fascinating moment in literary and cultural history. It is associated with the emergence of intriguing figures—such as the 'new woman' and 'uranian'; with contradictory impulses—of de... Read More about The Edinburgh companion to fin-de-siècle literature, culture and the arts.

Gateways, gates and gatu: liminal spaces at the centre of things (2017)
Book Chapter
Baker, J., & Brookes, S. (2017). Gateways, gates and gatu: liminal spaces at the centre of things. In S. Semple, C. Orsini, & S. Mui (Eds.), Life on the edge: social, religious and political frontiers in early medieval Europe. Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum with the Internationales Sachsensymposion

“A new continent of the soul”: D.H. Lawrence, Porthcothan and the necessary fiction of Cornwall (2017)
Journal Article
Harrison, A. (2017). “A new continent of the soul”: D.H. Lawrence, Porthcothan and the necessary fiction of Cornwall

Runes and commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England (2017)
Journal Article
Findell, M., & Kopár, L. (2017). Runes and commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England. Fragments, 6, 110-137

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.

Blaise (2017)
Journal Article
Legendre, T. (2017). Blaise

The Reservoir Tapes (2017)
Book
McGregor, J. (2017). The Reservoir Tapes. 4th Estate

Robert Southey and the Peninsular War (2017)
Book Chapter
Packer, I., & Pratt, L. (2018). Robert Southey and the Peninsular War. In D. Saglia, & I. Haywood (Eds.), Spain in British Romanticism, 1800-1840. Palgrave Macmillan

This essay examines two aspects of Southey’s Romantic Iberianism that have often been overlooked—his writings on the peninsular conflict in the Edinburgh Annual Register and his unfinished series of inscriptions on the war. Both shed important light... Read More about Robert Southey and the Peninsular War.

Novel style: ethics and excess in English fiction since the 1960s (2017)
Book
Masters, B. (2017). Novel style: ethics and excess in English fiction since the 1960s. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198766148.001.0001

Analysing the opinions of UK veterinarians on practice-based research using corpus linguistic and mathematical methods (2017)
Journal Article
Huntley, S. J., Mahlberg, M., Wiegand, V., van Gennip, Y., Yang, H., Dean, R. S., & Brennan, M. L. (2018). Analysing the opinions of UK veterinarians on practice-based research using corpus linguistic and mathematical methods. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 150, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2017.11.020

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)
Journal Article
Green, M. J. (2017). ‘An altered view regarding the relationship between dreams and reality’: magic, politics and the comics medium in Alan Moore and Jacen Burrow’s Providence. Studies in Comics, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.1386/stic.8.2.135_1

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.

Not-Shakespeare and the Shakespearean ghost (2017)
Book Chapter
Kirwan, P. (2017). Not-Shakespeare and the Shakespearean ghost. In J. C. Bulman (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of Shakespeare and performance. Oxford University Press

Beyond Outcast London: Theatre in the Provinces at the fin de siècle (2017)
Book Chapter
Robinson, J. (2017). Beyond Outcast London: Theatre in the Provinces at the fin de siècle. In J. M. Guy (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts. Edinburgh University Press

Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain (2017)
Journal Article
Siyanova-Chanturia, A., Conklin, K., Caffarra, S., Kaan, E., & van Heuven, W. J. (2017). Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain. Brain and Language, 175, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2017.10.004

Language comprehension is sensitive to the predictability of the upcoming information. Prediction allows for smooth, expedient and successful communication. While general discourse-based constraints have been investigated in detail, more specific phr... Read More about Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain.

Class during the Irish Revolution: British soldiers, 1916, and the abject body (2017)
Book Chapter
Moran, J. (2017). Class during the Irish Revolution: British soldiers, 1916, and the abject body. In M. Pierse (Ed.), A history of Irish working-class writing (153-167). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316570425.010

Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city (2017)
Book Chapter
Jordan, S. (2018). Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city. In D. Göttsche (Ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Postcolonial and Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan

Drawing on the outcomes of a research project, this chapter argues that digital storytelling can play a fundamental role in the reconceptualization of the digitally-mediated geographies of the postcolonial city. The chapter argues that the interactio... Read More about Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city.

Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage (2017)
Journal Article
Turner, G., Mills, S., Van der Bom, I., Coffey-Glover, L., Paterson, L. L., & Jones, L. (2018). Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage. Discourse and Society, 29(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926517734422

In this paper, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from CDA and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency... Read More about Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage.

Afterword (2017)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2017). Afterword. In A. Petrina, & I. Johnson (Eds.), The impact of Latin culture on medieval and early modern Scottish writing. Medieval Institute Publications

Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names (2017)
Journal Article
Baker, J. (2017). Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names. Early Medieval Europe, 25(4), 417-442. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12226

Old English sǣte names survive in documentary sources and place-names, and have been used in historical discourse as evidence for early and middle Anglo-Saxon socio-political organization. Earlier analyses, founded on incomplete datasets, have attemp... Read More about Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names.

What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation (2017)
Journal Article
Buckler, H., Goy, H., & Johnson, E. K. (2018). What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation. Journal of Phonetics, 66, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2017.09.004

In speech addressed to adults, words are seldom realized in their canonical, or citation, form. For example, the word ‘green’ in the phrase ‘green beans’ can often be realized as ‘greem’ due to English place assimilation, where word-final coronals ta... Read More about What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation.

J.M. Synge and the time of his life (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Collins, C. (2017, October). J.M. Synge and the time of his life. Presented at Irish Time?: Temporalities in Irish Literature and Culture, Dublin, Ireland