Outputs (23)

The trajectory of changing rhoticity in Bristol English: A consultative paper (2022)
Preprint / Working 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.

Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um (2021)
Journal Article

The current paper presents three studies that investigated the effect of exposure on the mental representations of filled pauses (um/uh). In Study 1, a corpus analysis identified the frequency of co-occurrence of filled pauses with words located imme... Read More about Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um.

Each p[ɚ]son does it th[ɛː] way: Rhoticity variation and the community grammar (2019)
Journal Article

This paper examines individual differences in constraints on linguistic variation in light of Labov’s (2007) proposal that adult change (diffusion) disrupts systems of constraints and Tamminga, MacKenzie, and Embick’s (2016) typology of constraints.... Read More about Each p[ɚ]son does it th[ɛː] way: Rhoticity variation and the community grammar.

Introduction: Strategic uses of politeness formulae. Analytical approaches and theoretical accounts (2019)
Journal Article

This essay introduces the special issue of the Journal of Pragmatics, co-edited by Beeching and Murphy, entitled Doing (mock) im/politeness.

Apologies in French and English: An insight into conventionalisation and im/politeness (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 This paper argues that a cross-linguistic study of the lexical semantics of terms used to apologise in English and French can shed light on the conventionalisation of (mock) politeness. Despite the long historical interdependence between the t... Read More about Apologies in French and English: An insight into conventionalisation and im/politeness.

Introduction (2018)
Book Chapter

This volume brings together contributions inspired by discussions that took place during the Panel “Positioning the self and others: Linguistic traces” which was held at the 14th IPrA Conference in Antwerp, 26–31 July 2015. Though much work has been... Read More about Introduction.

Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approach (2018)
Book Chapter

© 2018 John Benjamins Publishing Company. Metacommenters allow speakers to take some distance from a particular lexical selection, or enter into a negotiation with their interlocutors. A variational pragmatics approach is taken to the investigation o... Read More about Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approach.

Just a suggestion: just/e in French and English (2017)
Book Chapter

Reflexivity and discourse-pragmatic variation and change (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter takes a corpus linguistic approach to the investigation of reflexive, or metacommenting, expressions in French, primarily si tu veux/si vous voulez (STV/SVV). STV and SVV form part of a range of frequently occurring reflexive devices whi... Read More about Reflexivity and discourse-pragmatic variation and change.

Insights from contrastive linguistics: Translating 'sort of' into French (2016)
Book Chapter

Identifying the meanings and functions of pragmatic markers such as well, you know, I mean and sort of has posed a considerable challenge for linguists in semantics and pragmatics, particularly those interested in semantic change and pragmaticalisati... Read More about Insights from contrastive linguistics: Translating 'sort of' into French.