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Just plain Wronga? A multimodal critical analysis of online payday loan discourse (2016)
Journal Article
Brookes, G., & Harvey, K. (2017). Just plain Wronga? A multimodal critical analysis of online payday loan discourse. Critical Discourse Studies, 14(2), 167-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2016.1250651

Payday loans constitute one of the most rapidly expanding and controversial forms of consumer lending today. Payday lending – the selling of high-interest, short-term credit – has thrived in the wake of the decline of the traditional high street bank... Read More about Just plain Wronga? A multimodal critical analysis of online payday loan discourse.

‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication (2016)
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Mullany, L., Smith, C., Harvey, K., & Adolphs, S. (2016). ‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication. Communication and Medicine, 12(2-3), 211-223. https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.16692

This article explores the communicative choices of adolescents seeking advice from an internet-based health forum run by medical professionals. Techniques from the disciplines of sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics are integrated to examine the s... Read More about ‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication.

Tenure tracks (2016)
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Legendre, T. (2016). Tenure tracks. Columbia Journal of Race and Law,

Evidentiality in early modern English medical treatises (1500-1700) (2016)
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Whitt, R. J. (2016). Evidentiality in early modern English medical treatises (1500-1700). Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 2(2), 235-263. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2016-0014

This study investigates diachronic trends in the use of evidential markers in Early Modern English medical treatises (1500-1700), with data drawn from the Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts. The state of medical thought and practice in Earl... Read More about Evidentiality in early modern English medical treatises (1500-1700).

The development of the würde + infinitive construction in Early Modern German (1650–1800) (2016)
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Durrell, M., & Whitt, R. J. (2016). The development of the würde + infinitive construction in Early Modern German (1650–1800). Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 138(3), https://doi.org/10.1515/bgsl-2016-0028

This paper presents a corpus-based analysis of the evolution of the würde + infinitive construction in German during the Early Modern period (1650– 1800), using newly available data from the GerManC-corpus. We demonstrate how this construction occupi... Read More about The development of the würde + infinitive construction in Early Modern German (1650–1800).

Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality (2016)
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Waddell, N. (2016). Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality. Modernism/modernity, 1(3), https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0003

This article looks closely at the life and career of the avant-garde sculptor and painter Lawrence Atkinson (1873-1931) as a way to reconsider from a new angle at least three persistent clichés about Vorticism (that it was unmusical, that it was stop... Read More about Lawrence Atkinson, sculpture, and vorticist multimediality.

The Inclusion of Ethnic Minority Patients and the Role of Language in Telehealth Trials for Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review (2016)
Journal Article
Isaacs, T., Hunt, D., Ward, D., Rooshenas, L., & Edwards, L. (2016). The Inclusion of Ethnic Minority Patients and the Role of Language in Telehealth Trials for Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 18(9), Article e256. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.6374

Background:
Type 2 diabetes is a serious, pervasive metabolic condition that disproportionately affects ethnic minority patients. Telehealth interventions can facilitate type 2 diabetes monitoring and prevent secondary complications. However, trials... Read More about The Inclusion of Ethnic Minority Patients and the Role of Language in Telehealth Trials for Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review.

Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles (2016)
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Collins, L. C., & Nerlich, B. (2016). Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles. Communications, 41(3), https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2016-0009

Uncertainty is intrinsic to science, to knowledge acquisition and risk assessment. When communicating about climate change however, uncertainty can be used and understood as ‘not knowing’, i.e. as ignorance. In this article we aim to understand how ‘... Read More about Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles.

Challenges in editing late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century prose fiction: what is editorial “completeness”? (2016)
Journal Article
Guy, J., Scott, R., Conklin, K., & Carrol, G. (2016). Challenges in editing late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century prose fiction: what is editorial “completeness”?. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 59(4), 435-455

Guy, Scott, Conklin, and Carrol join forces to analyze controversial questions about multi-volume variorum editions of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers such as Wilde, Conrad, Woolf, James, and Wyndam Lewis. What prompted such ambi... Read More about Challenges in editing late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century prose fiction: what is editorial “completeness”?.

Using distributional statistics to acquire morphophonological alternations: evidence from production and perception (2016)
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Buckler, H., & Fikkert, P. (2016). Using distributional statistics to acquire morphophonological alternations: evidence from production and perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 540. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00540

Morphophonological alternations, such as the voicing alternation that arises in a morphological paradigm due to final-devoicing in Dutch, are notoriously difficult for children to acquire. This has previously been attributed to their unpredictability... Read More about Using distributional statistics to acquire morphophonological alternations: evidence from production and perception.

‘Outside of everything and everybody’: renegotiating place in the classroom (2016)
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Robinson, J. (in press). ‘Outside of everything and everybody’: renegotiating place in the classroom. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 21(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2016.1155406

This article examines a series of plays created by Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout Theatre in Education Company in the first years of the twenty-first century that aimed to respond to rising concerns about the impact of increasing numbers of refugees... Read More about ‘Outside of everything and everybody’: renegotiating place in the classroom.

The portormin (dunbeath) runestone (2016)
Journal Article
Findell, M. (2016). The portormin (dunbeath) runestone. Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies, 6, 153-170

A stone with a short runic inscription was discovered on the beach at Portormin Harbour in Dunbeath, Caithness, in 1996. The find attracted some press attention at the time, but has been largely ignored by the runological com­mu­nity amid doubts over... Read More about The portormin (dunbeath) runestone.

Emotional responses to irony and emoticons in written language: evidence from EDA and facial EMG (2016)
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Thompson, D., Mackenzie, I. G., Leuthold, H., & Filik, R. (2016). Emotional responses to irony and emoticons in written language: evidence from EDA and facial EMG. Psychophysiology, 53(7), 1054-1062. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12642

While the basic nature of irony is saying one thing and communicating the opposite, it may also serve additional social and emotional functions, such as projecting humour or anger. Emoticons often accompany irony in computer-mediated communication, a... Read More about Emotional responses to irony and emoticons in written language: evidence from EDA and facial EMG.

How gender-expectancy affects the processing of “them” (2016)
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Doherty, A., & Conklin, K. (2016). How gender-expectancy affects the processing of “them”. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(4), 718-735. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1154582

How sensitive is pronoun processing to expectancies based on real-world knowledge and language usage? The current study links research on the integration of gender stereotypes and number-mismatch to explore this question. It focuses on the use of the... Read More about How gender-expectancy affects the processing of “them”.

Using eye-tracking in applied linguistics and second language research (2016)
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Conklin, K., & Pellicer-Sánchez, A. (2016). Using eye-tracking in applied linguistics and second language research. Second Language Research, 32(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583166+37401

With eye-tracking technology the eye is thought to give researchers a window into the mind. Importantly, eye-tracking has significant advantages over traditional online processing measures: chiefly that it allows for more ‘natural’ processing as it d... Read More about Using eye-tracking in applied linguistics and second language research.

Double style (2016)
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Sutherland, L. (2016). Double style

Sarcasm in written communication: emoticons are efficient markers of intention (2016)
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Thompson, D., & Filik, R. (2016). Sarcasm in written communication: emoticons are efficient markers of intention. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 21(2), 105-120. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcc4.12156

Here we present two studies that investigate the use of emoticons in clarifying message intent. We look at sarcasm in particular, which can be especially hard to interpret correctly in written communication. In both studies, participants were require... Read More about Sarcasm in written communication: emoticons are efficient markers of intention.

“If a Muslim says ‘homo’, nothing gets done”: racist discourse and in-group identity construction in an LGBT youth group (2016)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2016). “If a Muslim says ‘homo’, nothing gets done”: racist discourse and in-group identity construction in an LGBT youth group. Language in Society, 45(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404515000792

This article presents ethnographic data emerging from research with a group of LGBT young people, detailing the construction of a shared identity. Using discourse analysis, it shows how the group members position people of South Asian descent as a ho... Read More about “If a Muslim says ‘homo’, nothing gets done”: racist discourse and in-group identity construction in an LGBT youth group.