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Emotional responses to irony and emoticons in written language: evidence from EDA and facial EMG (2016)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century (2016)
Book Chapter
Ní Fhlathúin, . M. (2016). Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century. A History of Indian Poetry in English (98-113). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139940887.007

When David Lester Richardson compiled the “British-Indian Poetry” section of his Selections from the British Poets (the first attempt to anthologize the poetry of British India) in 1840, he included no comic poetry. Despite the fact that humorous ver... Read More about Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century.

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

Maxims in Aldred's marginalia to the Lindisfarne Gospels (2016)
Book Chapter
Cavill, P. (2016). Maxims in Aldred's marginalia to the Lindisfarne Gospels. In J. Fernandez Cuesta, & S. Pons-Sanz (Eds.), The Old English gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: language, author and context. De Gruyter

Sarcasm in written communication: emoticons are efficient markers of intention (2016)
Journal Article
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.

Gavin Douglas's Eneados (2016)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2016). Gavin Douglas's Eneados. In R. Copeland (Ed.), Oxford history of classical reception in English literature. Oxford University Press

Found in translation: The Influence of the L1 on the Reading of Idioms in a L2 (2016)
Journal Article
Carrol, G., Conklin, K., & Gyllstad, H. (2016). Found in translation: The Influence of the L1 on the Reading of Idioms in a L2. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 38(3), 403-443. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263115000492

© 2016 Cambridge University Press. Formulaic language represents a challenge to even the most proficient of language learners. Evidence is mixed as to whether native and nonnative speakers process it in a fundamentally different way, whether exposure... Read More about Found in translation: The Influence of the L1 on the Reading of Idioms in a L2.

Simulated consultations: a sociolinguistic perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Atkins, S., Roberts, C., Hawthorne, K., & Greenhalgh, T. (2016). Simulated consultations: a sociolinguistic perspective. BMC Medical Education, 16(16), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-016-0535-2

Background Assessment of consulting skills using simulated patients is widespread in medical education. Most research into such assessment is sited in a statistical paradigm that focuses on psychometric properties or replicability of such tests. Equ... Read More about Simulated consultations: a sociolinguistic perspective.

Hacking the streets: ‘smart’ writing in the smart city (2016)
Journal Article
Jordan, S. (2016). Hacking the streets: ‘smart’ writing in the smart city. First Monday, 21(1), https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i1.5529

As cities become more complex and their communities more dispersed, questions such as ‘where is home? and ‘where and how do I belong?’ are increasingly pertinent. If urban space is a system, then it can be challenged through the spatial practice of i... Read More about Hacking the streets: ‘smart’ writing in the smart city.

Theatre history and historiography: ethics, evidence and truth (2016)
Book
J. Robinson, & C. Cochrane (Eds.), (2016). Theatre history and historiography: ethics, evidence and truth. doi:10.1057/9781137457288

This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer, or the little known history of colonial theatre in India -... Read More about Theatre history and historiography: ethics, evidence and truth.

Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson (2016)
Book
Sotirova, V., González-Díaz, V., Hodson, J., & Auer, A. (Eds.). (2016). Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson. John Benjamins Publishing

Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their in... Read More about Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson.

Further letters of D.H. Lawrence (2016)
Journal Article
Worthen, J., & Harrison, A. (2016). Further letters of D.H. Lawrence

[Letters of D.H. Lawrence, edited and translated by John Worthen and Andrew Harrison.]