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Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence (2025)
Journal Article
Eriksen, M. H., Olley, K. M., Marshall, B., & Tollefsen, E. (2025). Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774325000125

Pregnancy encompasses core socio-political issues: kinship, demography, religion, gender and more. In any society, the ontology of the pregnant body and the embryo-fetus holds core existential concerns. Is a pregnant body one or two beings? When does... Read More about Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence.

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 (2025)
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Whitt, R. (2025). 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), 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1515/jls-2025-2002

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.

The conversationality index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions (2025)
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Cotgrove, L., Thul, R., & Conklin, K. (2025). The conversationality index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions. Internet Pragmatics, https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00119.cot

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 (Statista 2023). While social media allows one to co... Read More about The conversationality index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions.

Bringing the Survey home: adventures in community engagement (2025)
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Baker, J., Carroll, J., & Kilby, S. (2025). Bringing the Survey home: adventures in community engagement. Journal of the English Place‑Name Society, 55, 88–103

The purpose of this paper is to celebrate the long-standing partnership between the Survey of English Place-Names and local communities, to recognise the great debt the Survey owes for the work of volunteers over the last hundred years, and to reflec... Read More about Bringing the Survey home: adventures in community engagement.

Viewpoint in Eighteenth-Century Birthing Narratives: A Survey of Midwifery Manuals (2025)
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Whitt, R. J. (2025). Viewpoint in Eighteenth-Century Birthing Narratives: A Survey of Midwifery Manuals. Women's Writing, 32(1), 66-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2024.2447192

This article provides a literary linguistic analysis of narrative viewpoint in a selection of eighteenth-century midwifery manuals. The eighteenth century is when the medicalisation of childbirth gained pace and the obstetric surgeon (known as the “... Read More about Viewpoint in Eighteenth-Century Birthing Narratives: A Survey of Midwifery Manuals.

‘Art Isn’t Easy’: Making Music al Theatre in Sunday in the Park with George (2024)
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Sutherland, L. (2024). ‘Art Isn’t Easy’: Making Music al Theatre in Sunday in the Park with George. Critical Quarterly, 66(4), 107-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12810

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 Music al Theatre in Sunday in the Park with George.

We(o)ndun, Symeon of Durham and the battle of Brunanburh (2024)
Journal Article
Cavill, P. (2024). We(o)ndun, Symeon of Durham and the battle of Brunanburh. Medium Ævum, 93(1), 46-69

The battle of Brunanburh in 937 was seen as significant throughout the medieval period, and some account of the conflict between the English and the invading men of Alba and Dublin- Norse occurs in dozens of medieval records. There are some variation... Read More about We(o)ndun, Symeon of Durham and the battle of Brunanburh.

Hard to swallow? A critical animal studies perspective on the discursive recontextualisation of the reality of dairy farming (2024)
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Brookes, G., & Chałupnik, M. (2024). Hard to swallow? A critical animal studies perspective on the discursive recontextualisation of the reality of dairy farming. Discourse and Communication, https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813241299002

This paper reports on a multimodal critical discourse analysis of the representations of social actors and processes involved in the production of dairy products. Focussing on the website of the UK’s largest dairy company, Arla Foods UK, the analysis... Read More about Hard to swallow? A critical animal studies perspective on the discursive recontextualisation of the reality of dairy farming.

Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’ (2024)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., Adolphs, S., & Knight, D. (2024). Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’. Lingua, 312, Article 103836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103836

Our study aims to develop a new corpus pragmatic approach for exploring the gesture patterns (i.e. functions and forms) co-occurring with the discourse marker ‘I mean’, including a comparison with previous research on another discourse marker (i.e. ‘... Read More about Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’.

Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research (2024)
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Atkins, S., Mackenzie, J., & Jones, L. (2025). Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences, 63(2), 377-406. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2023-0130

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.

‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens (2024)
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Jones, L. (2025). ‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 29(1), 3-21. 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.

Stratified distributional analysis—a novel perspective on RT distributions (2024)
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Thul, R., Marsh, J., Dijkstra, T., & Conklin, K. (2024). Stratified distributional analysis—a novel perspective on RT distributions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241288516

Abstract
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 t... Read More about 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)
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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 achieves 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 pandem... 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)
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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)
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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.

Language Heritage and the UK Public: Successes and Challenges of the UK Heritage Sector (2024)
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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.