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The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership (2023)
Journal Article

We present three studies that investigate the effect of group-level language ability expectations on language ability judgements. Study 1 identifies expected English-language ability levels that native English speakers’ have for a number of non-nativ... Read More about The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership.

The nominal group in British Sign Language: A preliminary description (2022)
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Research investigating British Sign Language (BSL)–and sign languages more generally–from systemic functional perspectives is gradually increasing but remains nascent overall. The current paper offers a step towards a steadily growing set of function... Read More about The nominal group in British Sign Language: A preliminary description.

Situating simultaneity: An initial schematisation of the lexicogrammatical rank scale of British Sign Language (2020)
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A central tenet of systemic functional theory is the rank scale: an ordered representation of the part-whole relationships of units within semiotic systems. Linguists have schematised the rank scales for the lexicogrammars of English, French, Spanish... Read More about Situating simultaneity: An initial schematisation of the lexicogrammatical rank scale of British Sign Language.

Continuing the contradictions: A multimodal investigation into the front covers of real-life magazines (2019)
Journal Article

Studies analysing women’s magazines note contradiction as a common theme, whether it be the content of the magazines and the ideological values presented therein, or at broader, political levels. This paper empirically investigates to what extent con... Read More about Continuing the contradictions: A multimodal investigation into the front covers of real-life magazines.

Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British Sign Language users (2015)
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This paper seeks to understand linguistic formality through the identification and measurement of contextual features. Using an adapted sociometric methodology to combine systemic functional linguistics and sign linguistics, a survey identifies the e... Read More about Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British Sign Language users.