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“My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games (2017)
Journal Article
Bloomfield, J. (2017). “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games. Theology, 120(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571X16684430

The imagery of bread in The Hunger Games provides an opportunity to read the novel within a Christian tradition alert to themes of suffering, sacrifice and solidarity. This article examines how the novel “re-enchants” bread as both a site of ideolog... Read More about “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games.

Reservoir 13 (2017)
Book
McGregor, J. (2017). Reservoir 13. 4th Estate

'O London, London': Mid-Tudor literature and the city (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, M. R. (2017). 'O London, London': Mid-Tudor literature and the city. Review of English Studies, 68(287), 883-901. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgx018

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press 2017; all rights reserved. This article explores the ways in which mid-Tudor writing addressed and imagined the city of London. Scholarly reactions to mid-Tudor writing have been mixed: where ni... Read More about 'O London, London': Mid-Tudor literature and the city.

Naturalistic reading in the L2 and the impact of word frequency and cross-linguistic similarity (2017)
Journal Article
Allen, D., & Conklin, K. (2017). Naturalistic reading in the L2 and the impact of word frequency and cross-linguistic similarity. 00 Journal not listed, 7(3), 41-57

While psycholinguistic studies of first language (L1) reading have identified multiple factors that predict the speed of lexical access, there are few studies investigating whether such factors influence second language (L2) reading. For usage-based... Read More about Naturalistic reading in the L2 and the impact of word frequency and cross-linguistic similarity.

The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Six: 1819-1821 (2017)
Book
Southey, R. (2017). I. Packer, & L. Pratt (Eds.), The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Six: 1819-1821. Romantic Circles

Part Six collects together, in one place, for the first time, the surviving letters written by Robert Southey between 1819 and 1821. It follows the editorial conventions described in About this Edition and presents newly transcribed, fully annotated... Read More about The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Six: 1819-1821.

Sociolinguistic factors affecting performance in the Clinical Skills Assessment of the MRCGP: a mixed methods approach (2017)
Journal Article
Hawthorne, K., Roberts, C., & Atkins, S. (2017). Sociolinguistic factors affecting performance in the Clinical Skills Assessment of the MRCGP: a mixed methods approach. BJGP Open, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen17X100713

Background: Differential performance in clinical skills assessments is a widespread phenomenon, for which there remain few explanations. Aim: To better understand the conversational contexts of simulated consultations and how candidates actually b... Read More about Sociolinguistic factors affecting performance in the Clinical Skills Assessment of the MRCGP: a mixed methods approach.

‘Can we have a child exchange?’ Constructing and subverting the ‘good mother’ through play in Mumsnet Talk (2017)
Journal Article
Mackenzie, J. (2017). ‘Can we have a child exchange?’ Constructing and subverting the ‘good mother’ through play in Mumsnet Talk. Discourse and Society, 28(3), 296-312. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926516687417

This article uses a feminist poststructuralist approach to explore how contributors to a single thread from the discussion forum of a popular British parenting website, Mumsnet Talk, position themselves as ‘good mothers’. The qualitative analysis tha... Read More about ‘Can we have a child exchange?’ Constructing and subverting the ‘good mother’ through play in Mumsnet Talk.

Cures and Currency in John Donne’s Letters to Patrons (2017)
Journal Article
Bumke, A. (2017). Cures and Currency in John Donne’s Letters to Patrons. SEL Studies in English Literature, 57(1), 67-86. https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2017.0003

Critics have discussed how John Donne’s writing responds to alchemy and to patronage, but none has examined how he draws parallels between the two frameworks. Donne sees both as convoluted, frustrating processes that rely on falseness. Comparing his... Read More about Cures and Currency in John Donne’s Letters to Patrons.

Using corpora to track changing thought styles: evidentiality, epistemology, and Early Modern English and German scientific discourse (2017)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. J. (2017). Using corpora to track changing thought styles: evidentiality, epistemology, and Early Modern English and German scientific discourse. Kalbotyra, 69, https://doi.org/10.15388/Klbt.2016.10376

Most research on evidentiality has focused on classifying evidential systems synchronically; meanwhile, diachronic studies on evidentiality seem to have focused on the development of specific items into evidential markers with little regard to discou... Read More about Using corpora to track changing thought styles: evidentiality, epistemology, and Early Modern English and German scientific discourse.

Pre-Modern Scotland. Literature and Governance 1420-1587 (2017)
Book
Martin, J., & Wingfield, E. (Eds.). (2017). Pre-Modern Scotland. Literature and Governance 1420-1587. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787525.001.0001

This book brings together original essays by a group of international scholars to offer ground-breaking research into the ‘Advice to Princes’ tradition and related themes of good self- and public governance in Older Scots literature, and in Latin lit... Read More about Pre-Modern Scotland. Literature and Governance 1420-1587.

Ultraviolet (2016)
Journal Article
Legendre, T. (2016). Ultraviolet

‘Good mums don’t, apparently, wear make-up’: negotiating discourses of gendered parenthood in Mumsnet Talk (2016)
Journal Article
Mackenzie, J. (2018). ‘Good mums don’t, apparently, wear make-up’: negotiating discourses of gendered parenthood in Mumsnet Talk. Gender and Language, 12(1), 114-135. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.31062

This article explores the discourses and related subject positions that are negotiated by contributors to the discussion forum of a popular British parenting website, Mumsnet Talk. Drawing on analysis of a single thread posted to this forum, I explor... Read More about ‘Good mums don’t, apparently, wear make-up’: negotiating discourses of gendered parenthood in Mumsnet Talk.

‘Off to the best start’? A multimodal critique of breast and formula feeding health promotional discourse (2016)
Journal Article
Brookes, G., Harvey, K., & Mullany, L. (2016). ‘Off to the best start’? A multimodal critique of breast and formula feeding health promotional discourse. Gender and Language, 10(3), 340-363. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.v10i3.32035

This study critically examines the multimodal discourses of baby-feeding practices in contemporary health promotion in the UK. Comparing two parallel texts from the ongoing Start4life campaign (one dedicated to breastfeeding, the other to bottle/form... Read More about ‘Off to the best start’? A multimodal critique of breast and formula feeding health promotional discourse.

A multimodal approach to assessing user experiences with agent helpers (2016)
Journal Article
Adolphs, S., Clark, L., Ofemile, A., & Rodden, T. (2016). A multimodal approach to assessing user experiences with agent helpers. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 6(4), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1145/2983926

The study of agent helpers using linguistic strategies such as vague language and politeness has often come across obstacles. One of these is the quality of the agent's voice and its lack of appropriate fit for using these strategies. The first appro... Read More about A multimodal approach to assessing user experiences with agent helpers.