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Fable, myth and folk tale: The writing of oral and traditional story forms (2016)
Book Chapter
Harrison, A. (2016). Fable, myth and folk tale: The writing of oral and traditional story forms. In D. Head (Ed.), Cambridge history of the English short story (84-99). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316711712.006

© Cambridge University Press 2016. Oral and traditional story forms - from fable, myth, fairy tale and folk tale to religious parable - underwrote the nature and purpose of the short story from its earliest incarnations, offering powerful narrative m... Read More about Fable, myth and folk tale: The writing of oral and traditional story forms.

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

Dismantling Narrative Modes: Authorial Revisions in the Opening of Mrs Dalloway (2016)
Book Chapter
Sotirova, V. (2016). Dismantling Narrative Modes: Authorial Revisions in the Opening of Mrs Dalloway. In A. Auer, V. González-Díaz, J. Hodson, & V. Sotirova (Eds.), Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson (171-194). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.25.10sot

This study examines Virginia Woolf ’s authorial revisions of the opening of Mrs Dalloway and their implications for narrative theory. I compare passages from the short story ‘Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street’ and the early drafts of ‘The Hours’ with the p... Read More about Dismantling Narrative Modes: Authorial Revisions in the Opening of Mrs Dalloway.

Evidentiality in early modern English medical treatises (1500-1700) (2016)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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 Number Poems (2016)
Book
Welton, M. (2016). The Number Poems. Manchester: Carcanet

Matthew Welton is a poet enchanted by form and process. Many of the Number Poems abide by subtle patterns or constraints, creating symmetries in the arrangement of sentences, lines, words, or metrical feet. As with good architecture, however, Welton’... Read More about The Number Poems.

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.

The Nottingham corpus of early modern German midwifery and women's medicine (ca. 1500-1700) (2016)
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Whitt, R. J. (2016). The Nottingham corpus of early modern German midwifery and women's medicine (ca. 1500-1700)

The Nottingham Corpus of Early Modern German Midwifery and Women’s Medicine (ca. 1500-1700), or the GeMi Corpus, is a collection of digitised, machine-readable text extracts from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German-language medical texts devote... Read More about The Nottingham corpus of early modern German midwifery and women's medicine (ca. 1500-1700).

Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
Collins, C. (2016). Introduction. In J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315638720

John Millington Synge is one the most important and most influential playwrights in modern theatre. Born in 1871 in Dublin, Ireland, Synge had a professional career as a playwright that lasted just seven years before his untimely death at the age of... Read More about Introduction.

Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles (2016)
Journal Article
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.

Where Hast Thou Been (2016)
Book Chapter
McGregor, J. (2016). Where Hast Thou Been. In S. Hall, & P. Hobbs (Eds.), Sex & DeathFaber