Outputs (7)

Will I ever learn Chinese (2024)
Digital Artefact

This is an auto-ethnographic podcast, following the author's processes of learning Mandarin Chinese and linking to 'traditional' research. It has 30 episodes, first published September - October 2024 (a new episode is published every 2 days). The pod... Read More about Will I ever learn Chinese.

Conversation analysis for computational modelling of task-oriented dialogue (2023)
Thesis

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

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

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)
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.

The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse (2022)
Book Chapter

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

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.