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“Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context (2022)
Journal Article
Sonbul, S., El-Dakhs, D. A. S., Conklin, K., & Carrol, G. (2023). “Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45(2), 370-392. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263122000237

Little is known about how non-native speakers process novel language patterns in the input they encounter. The present study examines whether non-natives develop a sensitivity to novel binomials and their ordering preference from context. Thirty-nine... Read More about “Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context.

Language, labour and ideology Constructing epistemologies of childbirth in the first three centuries of English-language midwifery texts (1540–1800) (2022)
Book Chapter
Whitt, R. J. (2022). Language, labour and ideology Constructing epistemologies of childbirth in the first three centuries of English-language midwifery texts (1540–1800). In T. Hiltunen, & I. Taavitsainen (Eds.), Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse (179-202). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.330.08whi

Writings on midwifery and women’s medicine related to childbirth reflect the many changes affecting this field during the Early Modern period, which in turn reflect changes in epistemological values Through the lens of critical discourse analysis, th... Read More about Language, labour and ideology Constructing epistemologies of childbirth in the first three centuries of English-language midwifery texts (1540–1800).

Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Sun, X., & Chałupnik, M. (2022). Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19. Discourse and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265221096029

In the context of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, female medical staff constituted a large proportion of frontline healthcare workers in China, with 50% of doctors and over 90% of nurses being women. In this paper, we aim to examine how these... Read More about Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19.

Proficiency, language of assessment, and attention to meaning and form during L2 comprehension: Methodological considerations in L2 replication research (2022)
Journal Article
Szudarski, P., & Mikołajczak, S. (2023). Proficiency, language of assessment, and attention to meaning and form during L2 comprehension: Methodological considerations in L2 replication research. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45(1), 276-288. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263122000171

This study is a replication and extension of Morgan-Short et al.'s (2018) investigation into the role of attention in input processing by L1-Polish learners of L2-Spanish, with proficiency and language of assessment explored as two key methodological... Read More about Proficiency, language of assessment, and attention to meaning and form during L2 comprehension: Methodological considerations in L2 replication research.

Escaping from Brunanburh and John of Worcester (2022)
Journal Article
Cavill, P. (2022). Escaping from Brunanburh and John of Worcester. English Studies, 103(6), 899-919. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2022.2067708

The battle around Brunanburh in 937 has aroused debate particularly about where it was fought. Many locations have been suggested and a serious contender, Bromborough on the Wirral, has often been too easily dismissed. The article examines some of th... Read More about Escaping from Brunanburh and John of Worcester.

Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change (2022)
Journal Article
Garcia, S. B., Chałupnik, M., Irving, K., & Haselgrove, M. (2022). Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change. Behavioral Sciences, 12(4), Article 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12040108

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major public health challenge. Although theoretically informed public health campaigns are more effective for changing behaviour, there is little evidence of their use when campaigns are commissioned to th... Read More about Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change.

‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen (2022)
Journal Article
Jones, L., Chałupnik, M., Mackenzie, J., & Mullany, L. (2022). ‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen. Discourse, Context and Media, 47, Article 100596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100596

This article focuses on the strategies that were used to resist misogyny on the microblogging platform Twitter during March 2021, a time when the hashtag #NotAllMen was trending. We take a critical feminist approach, combining corpus linguistics with... Read More about ‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen.

Donkey Discourse: Corpus Linguistics and Charity Communications for Improved Animal Welfare (2022)
Journal Article
McClaughlin, E., Clancy, C., & Cooke, F. (2022). Donkey Discourse: Corpus Linguistics and Charity Communications for Improved Animal Welfare. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 2(2), Article 100019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100019

A corpus linguistic approach has been applied to examine the representation of donkeys in public discourses for an international equid welfare charity (The Donkey Sanctuary) with a view to improving the British public's understanding of the roles of... Read More about Donkey Discourse: Corpus Linguistics and Charity Communications for Improved Animal Welfare.

How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality (2022)
Journal Article
Paquette-Smith, M., Buckler, H., & Johnson, E. K. (2023). How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(3), 485-496. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221094312

When university students are asked to rate their instructors, their evaluations are often influenced by the demographic characteristics of the instructor—such as the instructor’s race, gender, or language background. These influences can manifest in... Read More about How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality.

Militant, annoying and sexy: a corpus-based study of representations of vegans in the British press (2022)
Journal Article
Brookes, G., & Chałupnik, M. (2023). Militant, annoying and sexy: a corpus-based study of representations of vegans in the British press. Critical Discourse Studies, 20(2), 218-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2022.2055592

This article examines discourse representations of vegans in UK newspapers, comparing broadsheets with tabloids published between 2016 and 2020. Taking a corpus-based approach to CDA, we identify a series of discourses, some of which overlap between... Read More about Militant, annoying and sexy: a corpus-based study of representations of vegans in the British press.

Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom (2022)
Journal Article
NORLEDGE, J. (2022). Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom. English Studies, 103(3), 386-406

The experience of nonhuman animals is typically neglected in dystopian fiction, particularly as concerns the experiences of domestic pets. The presence of such creatures in dystopia is often notable only by their absence, with animal life (or the lac... Read More about Experiencing dystopia through Umwelt: Modelling the nonhuman animal in Hollow Kingdom.

Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour (2022)
Journal Article
Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour. Functions of Language, 29(2), 199-225. https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.21022.vil

This article considers the application of the Attitude framework (Martin & White 2005) to study the evaluation of human behaviour. The distinction between inscribed (explicit) and invoked (indirect) attitude is re-examined and systematised to better... Read More about Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour.

Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (2022)
Book
Musolff, A., Breeze, R., Kondo, K., & Vilar-Lluch, S. (Eds.). (2022). Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232730

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health issues. Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume a... Read More about Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy.

Social reaction to a new health threat: The perception of the Covid-19 health crisis by British and Spanish readerships (2022)
Book Chapter
Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Social reaction to a new health threat: The perception of the Covid-19 health crisis by British and Spanish readerships. In A. Musolff, R. Breeze, K. Kondo, & S. Vilar-Lluch (Eds.), Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (185-206). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232730.ch-010

Word order effect in collocation processing (2021)
Journal Article
Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, L., & Conklin, K. (2021). Word order effect in collocation processing. Mental Lexicon, 16(2-3), 362-396. https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.20022.vil

Collocations are words associated because of their frequent co-occurrence, which makes them predictable and leads to facilitated processing. While there have been suggestions that collocations are stored as unanalysed chunks, other researchers disagr... Read More about Word order effect in collocation processing.

Henry James "In The Minor Key" (2021)
Book Chapter
Scott, R. (2021). Henry James "In The Minor Key". In L. Buonomo (Ed.), The Sound of James. The Aural Dimension in Henry James’s Work. Papers from the 8th International Conference of the Henry James Society. Trieste, 4-6 July 2019 (17-34). Trieste, Italy: Edizioni Università di Trieste

Modernists and the Theatre: The Drama of W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf (2021)
Book
Moran, J. (2022). Modernists and the Theatre: The Drama of W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Bloomsbury Publishing

Modernists and the Theatre is the first study to examine how theories of modernism intersect with those of the theatre within the works, philosophies and literary lives of six key modernist writers. Drawing on a wealth of unfamiliar archive material... Read More about Modernists and the Theatre: The Drama of W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf.

Navigating Accent Variation: A Developmental Perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Johnson, E. K., van Heugten, M., & Buckler, H. (2022). Navigating Accent Variation: A Developmental Perspective. Annual Review of Linguistics, 8(1), 365-387. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-032521-053717

Adult processing of other-accented speech is fast, dependent on lexical access, and readily generalizable to new words. But what does children's processing of other-accented speech look like? Although many acquisition researchers have emphasized how... Read More about Navigating Accent Variation: A Developmental Perspective.