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“Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare (2018)
Journal Article
Bloomfield, J. (2020). “Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare. Shakespeare, 16(1), 23-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2018.1553891

This article draws on recent scholarship on Shakespearean allusions and crime fiction to develop an in-depth exploration of Agatha Christie's quotations from the playwright. These quotations do not tend to point to the murderer or give clues to the p... Read More about “Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare.

Looking Through Dementia: What Do Commercial Stock Images Tell Us About Aging and Cognitive Decline? (2018)
Journal Article
Harvey, K., & Brookes, G. (2018). Looking Through Dementia: What Do Commercial Stock Images Tell Us About Aging and Cognitive Decline?. Qualitative Health Research, 29(7), 104973231881454. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732318814542

Commercial stock images are existing, artificially-constructed visuals used by businesses and mass media outlets to articulate certain values, assumptions and beliefs. Despite their pervasiveness and ready accessibility, little is known about the way... Read More about Looking Through Dementia: What Do Commercial Stock Images Tell Us About Aging and Cognitive Decline?.

The Griffin (1820) and Other Works (2018)
Book
Morris, T. D. (2018). M. N. Fhlathúin (Ed.), The Griffin (1820) and Other Works. Romantic Circles

This edition showcases the poetry of Thomas D’Arcy Morris (1792-1835), a significant figure in the Bombay literary scene of the early nineteenth century. It identifies and attributes Morris’s works, originally published anonymously or pseudonymously... Read More about The Griffin (1820) and Other Works.

Elegy and Commemorative Writing (2018)
Book Chapter
Martin, J., Mathis, K., & Royan, N. (2018). Elegy and Commemorative Writing. In N. Royan (Ed.), The International Companion to Scottish Literature, 1400-1650

“What are you talking about?” An analysis of lexical bundles in Japanese junior high school textbooks (2018)
Journal Article
Northbrook, J., & Conklin, K. (2018). “What are you talking about?” An analysis of lexical bundles in Japanese junior high school textbooks. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 23(3), 311-334

In a communicative approach to language teaching, students are presented with ‘authentic’ language, which is thought to allow them to produce it in a nativelike way. The current study explores whether the lexical bundles in communicative Japanese jun... Read More about “What are you talking about?” An analysis of lexical bundles in Japanese junior high school textbooks.

Assessing health professionals' communication through role-play: an interactional analysis of simulated versus actual GP consultations (2018)
Journal Article
Atkins, S. (2019). Assessing health professionals' communication through role-play: an interactional analysis of simulated versus actual GP consultations. Discourse Studies, 21(2), 109-134. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445618802659

Simulations, in which healthcare professionals are observed in dialogue with role-played patients, are widely used for assessing professional skills. Medical education research suggests simulations should be as authentic as possible, but there remain... Read More about Assessing health professionals' communication through role-play: an interactional analysis of simulated versus actual GP consultations.

“And all this is spoken of the naturall byrth . . .”: Metadiscourse in The Birth of Mankind and its German source text, Rosengarten (2018)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. J. (2018). “And all this is spoken of the naturall byrth . . .”: Metadiscourse in The Birth of Mankind and its German source text, Rosengarten. English Text Construction, 11(2), 225-255. https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00010.whi

This paper provides an examination of the use of metadiscourse in the two versions of The Birth of Mankind, the first midwifery manual to be printed in English during the sixteenth century. It is a translation of a Latin text, which itself is a trans... Read More about “And all this is spoken of the naturall byrth . . .”: Metadiscourse in The Birth of Mankind and its German source text, Rosengarten.

Other theatres (2018)
Book
Collins, C. (2018). Other theatres. In E. Jordan, & E. Weitz (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of contemporary Irish theatre and performance, 221-232. Palgrave Macmillan

I. English Language (2018)
Journal Article
Cloutier, R., Yáñez-Bouza, N., Święciński, R., Dreschler, G., Gregersen, S., Gyuris, B., …Norledge, J. (2018). I. English Language. Year's Work in English Studies, 97(1), 1-186. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/may010

This chapter has thirteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguis... Read More about I. English Language.

Object lessons: Derek Mahon's material ekphrasis (2018)
Journal Article
Vincent, B. (2018). Object lessons: Derek Mahon's material ekphrasis. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 20(3), 371-384. https://doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.20.3.0371

Copyright © 2018 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Derek Mahon, like many writers of ekphrastic poetry, uses the interartistic encounter as an opportunity to meditate on his own aesthetic practice. While the self-reflexive dimen... Read More about Object lessons: Derek Mahon's material ekphrasis.

Children of the revolution: 1916 in 2016 (2018)
Book Chapter
Moran, J. (2018). Children of the revolution: 1916 in 2016. In E. Weitz, & E. Jordan (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance (866). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58588-2

During the 2016 centenary celebrations of the Easter Rising, one of the best-known images of the rebellion was the face of Seán Foster. His image appeared in numerous online articles; on RTÉ television over Easter weekend itself; and on a commemorati... Read More about Children of the revolution: 1916 in 2016.