The “Scottish” surname Witherspoon and its variants (2024)
Working Paper
Coates, R., & McClure, P. The “Scottish” surname Witherspoon and its variants

The well-known and arrestingly obscure Scottish surname Witherspoon (including its much less frequent but even better-known variant Wetherspoon and the most frequent variant of all, Wotherspoon) has received no satisfactory etymological explanation.... Read More about The “Scottish” surname Witherspoon and its variants.

Conversation analysis for computational modelling of task-oriented dialogue (2023)
Thesis
Duran, N. Conversation analysis for computational modelling of task-oriented dialogue. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10021806

Current methods of dialogue modelling for Conversational AI (CAI) bear little resemblance to the manner in which humans organise conversational interactions. The way utterances are represented, interpreted, and generated are determined by the necessi... Read More about Conversation analysis for computational modelling of task-oriented dialogue.

Investigation into the linguistic category membership of the Finnish planning particle tota (2022)
Journal Article
Kirjavainen, M., & Nikolaev, A. (2022). Investigation into the linguistic category membership of the Finnish planning particle tota. Pragmatics and Cognition, 29(2), 370-393. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.21019.kir

Even though hesitations (e.g., um/uh) were historically perceived as involuntary non-linguistic items (e.g., Maclay and Osgood 1959), more recently, a number of scholars have suggested that hesitations can behave like (a) lexical items (e.g., Clark &... Read More about Investigation into the linguistic category membership of the Finnish planning particle tota.

Score: Practices of listening and collision (2022)
Journal Article
Drofiak, N. (2022). Score: Practices of listening and collision. Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge, 3, 261-280. https://doi.org/10.14361/dak-2022-0317

A score is a research tool that approaches knowledge as a series of relations. A consciously authored, creative work, a score precipitates and establishes the initial terms of an encounter between stories or actors; performed (translated) into a con... Read More about Score: Practices of listening and collision.

The trajectory of changing rhoticity in Bristol English: A consultative paper (2022)
Working Paper
Coates, R., Blaxter, T., Beeching, K., Murphy, J., & Robinson, E. The trajectory of changing rhoticity in Bristol English: A consultative paper

This consultative paper by Blaxter, Beeching, Coates, Murphy and Robinson presents data on rhoticity in Bristol English. Through an investigation into the speech of 30 Bristol speakers the study demonstrates that this traditional feature is declining... Read More about The trajectory of changing rhoticity in Bristol English: A consultative paper.

The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse (2022)
Book Chapter
Aldridge, M., & Steel, K. (2022). The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse. In I. Šeškauskienė (Ed.), Metaphor in Legal Discourse (224-241). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This book explores different aspects of metaphoricity in legal discourse, from court proceedings and written institutionalised texts to judges’ argumentation and in spoken records, among others. It brings together linguists and law professionals from... Read More about The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse.

Irúsan or, canting for architects (2020)
Book
Drofiak, N. (2020). Irúsan or, canting for architects. Zurich: gta Verlag / ETH Zurich

In 1931, architect Ivan Il’icˇ Leonidov was sent 2,800 kilometres northeast of Moscow to assist in constructing the new Soviet arctic port of Igarka. The city, though presented as an inscription of the future into the vast void of Siberia, in fact st... Read More about Irúsan or, canting for architects.