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Punctuation In Older Scots (2024)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. (in press). Punctuation In Older Scots. In E. Bonapfel, M. Faulkner, J. Lennard, & J. Gutierre (Eds.), A History of Punctuation in English Literature. Cambridge University Press

The Poetics of Sexual Violence in Three African-American Women's Neo-Slave Narratives: Margaret Walker's Jubilee, Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Toni Morrison's Beloved (2024)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. (in press). The Poetics of Sexual Violence in Three African-American Women's Neo-Slave Narratives: Margaret Walker's Jubilee, Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Toni Morrison's Beloved. Journal of Literary Semantics, 54(1),

This paper focuses on the representation of sexual violence in the neo-slave narratives of Margaret Walker, Octavia E. Butler and Toni Morrison. Through an exploration of mind-modelling in three key scenes, a range of linguistic techniques are employ... Read More about The Poetics of Sexual Violence in Three African-American Women's Neo-Slave Narratives: Margaret Walker's Jubilee, Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Toni Morrison's Beloved.

‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens (2024)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2024). ‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens. Journal of Sociolinguistics, https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12676

In this article, I build upon calls for an intersectional approach in sociocultural linguistic research-particularly in the context of language, gender and sexuality-which attends robustly to the question of race. Through the analysis of four moments... Read More about ‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens.

The Labour of Theatre: 1900-1950 (2024)
Book Chapter
Sutherland, L. (2024). The Labour of Theatre: 1900-1950. In C. Cochrane, L. Goddard, C. Hindson, & T. Reid (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre and Performance. Volume One: 1900-1950. Routledge

EXPRESS: Stratified Distributional Analysis -- a Novel Perspective on RT Distributions (2024)
Journal Article
Thul, R., Marsh, J., Dijkstra, T., & Conklin, K. (2024). EXPRESS: Stratified Distributional Analysis -- a Novel Perspective on RT Distributions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241288516

Response times and their distributions serve as a powerful lens into cognitive processes. We present a novel statistical methodology called Stratified Distributional Analysis (SDA) to quantitatively assess how key determinants of response times (word... Read More about EXPRESS: Stratified Distributional Analysis -- a Novel Perspective on RT Distributions.

The effects of modal value and imperative mood on self-predicted compliance to health guidance: the case of COVID-19 (2024)
Journal Article
Vilar-Lluch, S., McClaughlin, E., Adolphs, S., Knight, D., & Nichele, E. (2024). The effects of modal value and imperative mood on self-predicted compliance to health guidance: the case of COVID-19. Text and Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse and Communication Studies, https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2023-0125

Health messaging is effective if it is to achieve audience adherence to guidance. Through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistics, we examine the expression of obligation in poster-based health campaigns (4 posters) employed during the COVID-19 p... Read More about The effects of modal value and imperative mood on self-predicted compliance to health guidance: the case of COVID-19.

‘Can women have it all?’ Transitions in media representations of Jacinda Ardern’s leadership and identity by a global newsroom (2024)
Journal Article
Chałupnik, M., Mackenzie, J., Mullany, L., & Vilar-Lluch, S. (2024). ‘Can women have it all?’ Transitions in media representations of Jacinda Ardern’s leadership and identity by a global newsroom. Critical Discourse Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2024.2401984

The paper examines changing media representations of Jacinda Ardern, former Aotearoa New Zealand Prime Minister, from the global broadcaster, BBC News Online, across three key milestones in the politician’s career: her appointment, re-election and re... Read More about ‘Can women have it all?’ Transitions in media representations of Jacinda Ardern’s leadership and identity by a global newsroom.

Chaucerian Ekphrasis: Craft, Intertext, Dispence (2024)
Journal Article
Jones, M. R. (2024). Chaucerian Ekphrasis: Craft, Intertext, Dispence. Parergon, 41(1), 191-212. https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935340

Ekphrasis has long been a topic of interest to literary scholars, but until quite recently medieval ekphrasis has existed on the periphery of most accounts of it. This article explores the distinctive nature of medieval ekphrasis in passages of descr... Read More about Chaucerian Ekphrasis: Craft, Intertext, Dispence.

'Art isn't easy': Making Musical Theatre in Sunday in the Park With George (2024)
Journal Article
Sutherland, L. (in press). 'Art isn't easy': Making Musical Theatre in Sunday in the Park With George. Critical Quarterly,

Sunday in the Park With George (Sunday) was a pivotal piece of work for Stephen Sondheim, written in the early 80s, at a time when he broke away from Broadway production processes to work in the nonprofit sector, developing this musical with James La... Read More about 'Art isn't easy': Making Musical Theatre in Sunday in the Park With George.

Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research (2024)
Journal Article
Atkins, S., Mackenzie, J., & Jones, L. (in press). Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences,

This article outlines ethical principles for ‘participant-centred linguistic research’ (PCLR), a term we coin to incorporate a range of linguistic research approaches that place importance on the involvement of participants. Linguistics, as a field,... Read More about Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research.

The Conversationality Index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions (2024)
Journal Article
Cotgrove, L., Thul, R., & Conklin, K. (in press). The Conversationality Index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions. Internet Pragmatics,

There has been an explosion in social media use, with Statista estimating that worldwide, Facebook has over 3 billion regular active users, YouTube 2.5 billion, and Instagram and WhatsApp 2 billion. While social media allows one to connect and intera... Read More about The Conversationality Index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions.

Language Heritage and the UK Public: Successes and Challenges of the UK Heritage Sector (2024)
Journal Article
Braber, N., & Howard, V. (2024). Language Heritage and the UK Public: Successes and Challenges of the UK Heritage Sector. Heritage and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/2159032x.2024.2382625

The United Kingdom (UK) lacks a uniform approach to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH) such as language. The UK ratified the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in June 2024. In the absence of any UK-wi... Read More about Language Heritage and the UK Public: Successes and Challenges of the UK Heritage Sector.

British India in the 1850s (2024)
Book Chapter
Ni Fhlathuin, M. (2024). British India in the 1850s. In G. Marshall (Ed.), Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1850s. Cambridge University Press

Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers (2024)
Book
Bloomfield, J. (2024). Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58339-1

This study argues that allusion is a central part of classic British detective fiction. It demonstrates the fraught status of Shakespeare and the Bible during the Golden Age of the British detective novel, and the cultural currents which novelists na... Read More about Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers.

Cross-cultural Comparison of Recovery College Implementation Between Japan and England: Corpus-based Discourse Analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Kotera, Y., Miyamoto, Y., Vilar-Lluch, S., Aizawa, I., Reilly, O., Miwa, A., Murakami, M., Stergiopoulos, V., Kroon, H., Giles, K., Garner, K., Ronaldson, A., McPhilbin, M., Jebara, T., Takhi, S., Repper, J., Meddings, S., Jepps, J., Simpson, A. J., Kellermann, V., …Eguchi, S. (2024). Cross-cultural Comparison of Recovery College Implementation Between Japan and England: Corpus-based Discourse Analysis. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-024-01356-3

Recovery Colleges (RCs) are mental health learning communities, operated in 28 countries across cultures. However, the RC operational model is informed by Western countries sharing similar cultural characteristics such as individualism and short-term... Read More about Cross-cultural Comparison of Recovery College Implementation Between Japan and England: Corpus-based Discourse Analysis.

Leadership and Collaboration (2024)
Book Chapter
Chałupnik, M. (2024). Leadership and Collaboration. In Leadership and Collaboration in Workplace Discourse: From Field to Application (21-40). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54722-5_2

The aim of this chapter is to review the concepts of leadership and collaboration, both of which feature prominently in the discussion and analysis presented in this book. This chapter provides a detailed theoretical overview of, first, how these are... Read More about Leadership and Collaboration.

Auto-Ethnography in the Workplace (2024)
Book Chapter
Chałupnik, M. (2024). Auto-Ethnography in the Workplace. In Leadership and Collaboration in Workplace Discourse: From Field to Application (79-97). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54722-5_4

The chapter discusses auto-ethnographic methods of collecting and analysing professional communication. This entails the consideration of both the early stages of a research project drawing upon such methods, conceptualising a study, selecting and ga... Read More about Auto-Ethnography in the Workplace.

From Field to Application (2024)
Book Chapter
Chałupnik, M. (2024). From Field to Application. In Leadership and Collaboration in Workplace Discourse: From Field to Application (215-234). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54722-5_7

The chapter brings together the key observations about how leadership and collaboration can be realised in talk at work. This discussion entails specifically the consideration of the forms, functions and effects of communicative practices associated... Read More about From Field to Application.