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Adjustment-style: from H. G. Wells to Ali Smith and the metamodern novel (2021)
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Masters, B. (2021). Adjustment-style: from H. G. Wells to Ali Smith and the metamodern novel. Textual Practice, 35(6), 967-995. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2021.1935750

The Wells-James debate about the function of the novel has influenced decades of formalist and humanist criticism that has elevated Henry James as the quintessential ethical stylist and struggled to come to terms with H.G. Wells's literary artistry.... Read More about Adjustment-style: from H. G. Wells to Ali Smith and the metamodern novel.

Examining the influence of perspective and prosody on expected emotional responses to irony: Evidence from event-related brain potentials (2021)
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Thompson, D., Leuthold, H., & Filik, R. (2021). Examining the influence of perspective and prosody on expected emotional responses to irony: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(2), 107-113. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000249

Ironic language is typically more difficult to process and interpret than a literal equivalent, hence is assumed to serve several social and emotional functions not achieved by literal communication (such as politeness or introducing humour). Several... Read More about Examining the influence of perspective and prosody on expected emotional responses to irony: Evidence from event-related brain potentials.

Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit (2021)
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Thul, R., Conklin, K., & Barr, D. J. (2021). Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit. Journal of Memory and Language, 120, Article 104247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2021.104247

Data from each subject in a repeated-measures experiment forms a time series , which may include trial-by-trial fluctuations arising from human factors such as practice or fatigue. Concerns about the statistical implications of such effects have incr... Read More about Using GAMMs to model trial-by-trial fluctuations in experimental data: More risks but hardly any benefit.

Racial slurs and perception of racism in Heart of Darkness (2021)
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Mastropierro, L., & Conklin, K. (2021). Racial slurs and perception of racism in Heart of Darkness. Journal of Literary Semantics, 50(1), 25-41. https://doi.org/10.1515/jls-2021-2028

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of the racial slursniggerandnegroinHeart of Darknesson readers’perception of dehumanisation,discrimination, and racism. It compares data collected through online question-naires to test whether the... Read More about Racial slurs and perception of racism in Heart of Darkness.

Consuming the Royal Body: Stillness, Scopophilia, and Aura in Lear and Macbeth on Screen (2021)
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Kirwan, P. (2021). Consuming the Royal Body: Stillness, Scopophilia, and Aura in Lear and Macbeth on Screen. Shakespeare Bulletin, 39(1), 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2021.0011

Drawing on Hilary Mantel's evocation of the frozen body of the monarch as an object to be gazed upon and consumed, this article revisits three cinematic Shakespearean films in order to demonstrate the ways in which kings are made abject. By applying... Read More about Consuming the Royal Body: Stillness, Scopophilia, and Aura in Lear and Macbeth on Screen.

Linguistic Analysis of Online Communication About a Novel Persecutory Belief System (Gangstalking): Mixed Methods Study (2021)
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Lustig, A., Brookes, G., & Hunt, D. (2021). Linguistic Analysis of Online Communication About a Novel Persecutory Belief System (Gangstalking): Mixed Methods Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(3), Article e25722. https://doi.org/10.2196/25722

Background: Gangstalking is a novel persecutory belief system whereby those affected believe they are being followed, stalked, and harassed by a large number of people, often numbering in the thousands. The harassment is experienced as an accretion o... Read More about Linguistic Analysis of Online Communication About a Novel Persecutory Belief System (Gangstalking): Mixed Methods Study.

Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives (2021)
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Zottola, A., Jones, L., Pilnick, A., & Mullany, L. (2021). Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives. Health Expectations, 24(2), 719-727. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13222

Background This paper presents an analysis of 32 narratives written by patients waiting for assessment at a transgender health clinic (THC) in England. Narratives are autobiographical free texts, designed to allow patients to describe in their own... Read More about Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives.

Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free?text autobiographical narratives (2021)
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Zottola, A., Jones, L., Pilnick, A., Mullany, L., Bouman, W. P., & Arcelus, J. (2021). Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free?text autobiographical narratives. Health Expectations, 24(2), 719-727. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13222

Background: This paper presents an analysis of 32 narratives written by patients waiting for assessment at a transgender health clinic (THC) in England. Narratives are autobiographical free texts, designed to allow patients to describe in their own w... Read More about Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free?text autobiographical narratives.

Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives (2021)
Journal Article
Zottola, A., Jones, L., Pilnick, A., Mullany, L., Bouman, W. P., & Arcelus, J. (2021). Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives. Health Expectations, 24(2), 719-727. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13222

Background This paper presents an analysis of 32 narratives written by patients waiting for assessment at a transgender health clinic (THC) in England. Narratives are autobiographical free texts, designed to allow patients to describe in their own w... Read More about Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives.

Queer linguistics and identity : the past decade (2021)
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Jones, L. (2021). Queer linguistics and identity : the past decade. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 10(1), 13-24. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00010.jon

In this short essay, I offer some reflections on language and sexuality work over the past decade. My discussion is focused on the increasing influence of queer theory, in particular, and I comment on trends in research into language and queer identi... Read More about Queer linguistics and identity : the past decade.

The Effect of Auditory Input on Multimodal Reading Comprehension: An Examination of Adult Readers’ Eye Movements (2021)
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Pellicer-Sánchez, A., Conklin, K., Rodgers, M. P. H., & Parente, F. (2021). The Effect of Auditory Input on Multimodal Reading Comprehension: An Examination of Adult Readers’ Eye Movements. Modern Language Journal, 105(4), 936-956. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12743

Comprehension of many types of texts involves constructing meaning from text and pictures. However, research examining how second language (L2) learners process text and pictures and the relationship with comprehension is scarce. Thus, while verbal i... Read More about The Effect of Auditory Input on Multimodal Reading Comprehension: An Examination of Adult Readers’ Eye Movements.

Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech (2020)
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Royan, N. (2020). Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 64, 61-86. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.NMS.5.127657

The representation of women is often used as a critical touchstone for the re-assessment of many medieval texts: this is also true of discussions of Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid and Gavin Douglas’s Eneados. This essay compares these po... Read More about Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech.

The Mob: J. G. Ballard's Turn to the Collective (2020)
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Evans, J. (2020). The Mob: J. G. Ballard's Turn to the Collective. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 53(3), 436-451. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8624624

The article identifies a shift in J. G. Ballard’s work from a preoccupation with the individual to a preoccupation with the collective. It reads Ballard’s late fiction as being part of a wider turn in the culture of Western, neoliberal states toward... Read More about The Mob: J. G. Ballard's Turn to the Collective.

Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s (2020)
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ní Fhlathúin, M. (2020). Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s. Modern Language Review, 115(4), 809-833. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.115.4.0809

As British rule in India took an increasingly Anglicist and Utilitarian-influenced turn in the 1830s, there nevertheless persisted some remnants of the Orientalist approach to Indian culture associated with the scholarship of William Jones. This essa... Read More about Late Orientalist Poetry and Politics: India in the Colonial Literary Culture of the 1830s.

The role of empirical methods in investigating readers’ constructions of authorial creativity in literary reading (2020)
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Parente, F., Conklin, K., Guy, J. M., & Scott, R. (2021). The role of empirical methods in investigating readers’ constructions of authorial creativity in literary reading. Language and Literature, 30(1), 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947020952200

The popularity of literary biographies and the importance publishers place on author publicity materials suggest the concept of an author’s creative intentions is important to readers’ appreciation of literary works. However, the question of how this... Read More about The role of empirical methods in investigating readers’ constructions of authorial creativity in literary reading.

Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded (2020)
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Collins, C. (2020). Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded. Irish Studies Review, 28(4), 411-428. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2020.1827494

This article demonstrates how two of J.M. Synge’s plays, In the Shadow of the Glen (1903) and The Playboy of the Western World (1907) document and reflect attitudes towards vagrancy and feeble-mindedness in Ireland at the dawn of the twentieth centur... Read More about Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded.

The Effect of Pre‐reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning: An Investigation of L1 and L2 Readers’ Eye Movements (2020)
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Pellicer Sanchez, A., Conklin, K., & Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, L. (2021). The Effect of Pre‐reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning: An Investigation of L1 and L2 Readers’ Eye Movements. Language Learning, 71(1), 162-203. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12430

This study examines the effect of pre-reading vocabulary instruction on learners’ attention and vocabulary gains. Participants (L1 = 92; L2 = 88) were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: pre-reading instruction, involving explicit instructio... Read More about The Effect of Pre‐reading Instruction on Vocabulary Learning: An Investigation of L1 and L2 Readers’ Eye Movements.

A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers (2020)
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Jones, L., & Collins, . L. (2020). A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 9(2), 202-225. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.20002.jon

This research reports on newspaper representations of PrEP, a HIV-prevention drug recently made available on a trial basis to at-risk individuals in England. Using corpus-assisted queer critical discourse analysis, we investigate the linguistic repre... Read More about A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers.