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Ink not mink: Discourses of Masculinity in Animal Rights Campaigns (2023)
Book Chapter
Brookes, G., & Chałupnik, M. (2023). Ink not mink: Discourses of Masculinity in Animal Rights Campaigns. In M. McGlashan, & J. Mercer (Eds.), Toxic Masculinity: Men, Meaning, and Digital Media (87-109). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003263883-7

This chapter examines how discourses around masculinity are invoked in animal rights campaigns. We taking as our data source two parallel campaigns produced by the animal rights group, PETA: the “I'd rather go naked” campaign and the “Ink not mink” c... Read More about Ink not mink: Discourses of Masculinity in Animal Rights Campaigns.

Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres (2023)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. (2023). Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres. English Language and Linguistics, 27(2), 241-269. https://doi.org/10.1017/s136067432200034x

This article provides a corpus-driven overview of the ‘epistemic space’ surrounding the use of two lockwords of Early and Late Modern writings on midwifery and childbirth, child and uterus. Rather than searching for epistemic stance markers themselve... Read More about Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres.

Ambiguity Resolution in Passivized Idioms: Is There a Shift in the Most Likely Interpretation? (2022)
Journal Article
Kyriacou, M., Conklin, K., & Thompson, D. (2023). Ambiguity Resolution in Passivized Idioms: Is There a Shift in the Most Likely Interpretation?. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(3), 212–226. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000300

Ambiguous but canonical idioms (kick the bucket) are processed fast in both their figurative (“die”) and literal (“boot the pail”) senses, although processing costs associated with meaning integration may emerge in postidiom regions. Modified version... Read More about Ambiguity Resolution in Passivized Idioms: Is There a Shift in the Most Likely Interpretation?.

The Battle of Brunanburh: The Yorkshire Hypothesis (2022)
Journal Article
Cavill, P. (2023). The Battle of Brunanburh: The Yorkshire Hypothesis. English Studies, 104(1), 19-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2022.2154045

Disputes about where the battle of Brunanburh in 937 was fought continue, but in recent years one particular area, Yorkshire, has been proposed by Michael Wood. This article re-examines some of the strategic detail underlying assumptions about York a... Read More about The Battle of Brunanburh: The Yorkshire Hypothesis.

Embroidered narratives (2022)
Book Chapter
Lee, C. (2023). Embroidered narratives. In R. Norris, R. Stephenson, & R. Trilling (Eds.), Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463721462

This essay will argue for the importance of embroidered textiles as artifacts that provide a unique window to the participation of women in Early Medieval England in the political, socio-economic, and intellectual life of the period.² Textile gifts p... Read More about Embroidered narratives.

Artist Development and Collective Therapy in the Repertory: The Case of After Edward (2022)
Journal Article
Kirwan, P. (in press). Artist Development and Collective Therapy in the Repertory: The Case of After Edward. Early Theatre, 25(2), https://doi.org/10.12745/et.25.2.4733

This article discusses the exploration of the repertory model in Tom Stuart’s 2019 play After Edward, produced at Shakespeare’s Globe. Performed in repertory with a production of Edward II, After Edward dramatizes Diana Taylor’s sense of repertoire;... Read More about Artist Development and Collective Therapy in the Repertory: The Case of After Edward.

A case study of the Ancientbiotics collaboration (2022)
Journal Article
Connelly, E., Lee, C., Furner-Pardoe, J., del Genio, C. I., & Harrison, F. (2022). A case study of the Ancientbiotics collaboration. Patterns, 3(12), Article 100632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2022.100632

Collaborations that cross traditional boundaries between disciplines in STEM and the arts and humanities open up exciting research possibilities. In our team’s case, we combined expertise in historical manuscripts, data science, and microbiology to e... Read More about A case study of the Ancientbiotics collaboration.

Discursive acts of resistance: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of All-Poland Women’s Strike’s social media (2022)
Journal Article
Chałupnik, M., & Brookes, G. (2022). Discursive acts of resistance: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of All-Poland Women’s Strike’s social media. Gender and Language, 16(3), 308-333. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.20148

Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet (All-Poland Women’s Strike) is a grassroots campaign established in Poland in 2016 in response to the proposed tightening of abortion laws but which also engages with broader social, feminist and women’s rights issues. Usin... Read More about Discursive acts of resistance: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of All-Poland Women’s Strike’s social media.

The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
McClaughlin, E., Vilar-Lluch, S., Parnell, T., Knight, D., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., …Schiazza, G. (2023). The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 3(1), Article 100037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100037

Understanding the reception of public health messages in public-facing communications is of key importance to health agencies in managing crises, pandemics, and other health threats. Established public health communications strategi... Read More about The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Word and Multiword Processing (2022)
Book Chapter
Conklin, K., & Thul, R. (2022). Word and Multiword Processing. In A. Godfroid, & H. Hopp (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics (203-215). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003018872-20

When we encounter linguistic input, both spoken and written, we need to identify words and multiword sequences (e.g., “spill the beans” meaning “to reveal a secret”), ascertain their meaning, and integrate them into our unfolding understanding of a s... Read More about Word and Multiword Processing.

Towards a corpus-based description of speech-gesture units of meaning: The case of the circular gesture (2022)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., & Adolphs, S. (2022). Towards a corpus-based description of speech-gesture units of meaning: The case of the circular gesture. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.20174.che

The theories and methods in corpus linguistics (CL) have had an impact on numerous areas in applied linguistics. However, the interface between CL and multimodal speech-gesture studies remains underexplored. One fundamental question is whether it is... Read More about Towards a corpus-based description of speech-gesture units of meaning: The case of the circular gesture.

Representing Behavioral Pathology: The Importance of Modality in Medical Descriptions of Conduct, ADHD as Case Study (2022)
Journal Article
Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Representing Behavioral Pathology: The Importance of Modality in Medical Descriptions of Conduct, ADHD as Case Study. Health Communication, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2129649

This paper examines the role of modality resources (e.g. “may,” “often”) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in representing behavioral pathology focusing, in particular, on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (A... Read More about Representing Behavioral Pathology: The Importance of Modality in Medical Descriptions of Conduct, ADHD as Case Study.

Boucicault-O’Casey-Hansberry: Tracing a Line of Influence (2022)
Journal Article
Moran, J. (2022). Boucicault-O’Casey-Hansberry: Tracing a Line of Influence. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 49(2), 165–181. https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727221115038

In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway after a successful tour. This remarkable performance featured a black cast, and staged a generation that was beginning to find intellectual sources of race pride. By contrast,... Read More about Boucicault-O’Casey-Hansberry: Tracing a Line of Influence.

‘I'm a boy, can't you see that?’: Dialogic embodiment and the construction of agency in trans youth discourse (2022)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2022). ‘I'm a boy, can't you see that?’: Dialogic embodiment and the construction of agency in trans youth discourse. Language in Society, 52(4), 549-570. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404522000252

This article offers discourse analysis of young transgender people’s interaction, in which they describe being rendered powerless through misgendering or misrepresentation. It argues that the young people’s collective responses to these moments enabl... Read More about ‘I'm a boy, can't you see that?’: Dialogic embodiment and the construction of agency in trans youth discourse.

‘Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’: Discourse representations of men in an online vegan community (2022)
Journal Article
Brookes, G., & Chałupnik, M. (2022). ‘Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’: Discourse representations of men in an online vegan community. Discourse, Context and Media, 49, Article 100640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100640

This article critically examines discourse representations of men in a large online vegan community. The analysis reveals a set of discourses which provide oppositional representations of vegan and non-vegan men, wherein the former is aligned with he... Read More about ‘Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’: Discourse representations of men in an online vegan community.