Outputs (15)

Reading in the reception classroom (2018)
Journal Article
Hodgson, J. (2018). Reading in the reception classroom. FORUM, 60(3), 337-344. https://doi.org/10.15730/forum.2018.60.3.337

Ofated’s 2017 review of the Reception year curriculum asserts that reading is the core purpose of the Re-ception year, and advocates “systematic systematic phonics” as the teaching method. This precept disre-gards research into the nature of reading... Read More about Reading in the reception classroom.

Towards a community of artists’ books: Extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research (2018)
Thesis
Bodman, S. Towards a community of artists’ books: Extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/862355

ABSTRACT Towards a community of artists’ books: extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research The field of activity in artists’ books – artworks in the form of a book - has evolved over the... Read More about Towards a community of artists’ books: Extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research.

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection (2018)
Book
Fisher, J. N. (2018). Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection. (1). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351042703

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britain's interests in the Near East and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Essays address themes in British power projection in a geographic... Read More about Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection.

Analysing British sign language through the lens of systemic functional linguistics (2018)
Thesis
Rudge, L. A. Analysing British sign language through the lens of systemic functional linguistics. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/863200

Approaches to understanding language via Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) have resulted in a compendium of literature focussing on language as a ‘social semiotic.’ One such area of this literature comprises systemic functional grammars: descript... Read More about Analysing British sign language through the lens of systemic functional linguistics.

Metaphor in media discourse: Representations of ‘Arabs’ and ‘Americans' in American and Arab news media (2018)
Thesis
Kort, S. (in press). Metaphor in media discourse: Representations of ‘Arabs’ and ‘Americans' in American and Arab news media. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/883748

The present study explores the representations of ‘Arabs’ and ‘Americans’ in American and in Arab news media discourse between 2001 and 2011 through an evaluation of the metaphors used to describe each group. The study chiefly argues that metaphors i... Read More about Metaphor in media discourse: Representations of ‘Arabs’ and ‘Americans' in American and Arab news media.

The politics of 'protest heritage', 1790-1850 (2018)
Book Chapter
Poole, S. (2018). The politics of 'protest heritage', 1790-1850. In C. J. Griffin, & B. McDonagh (Eds.), In Remembering Protest in Britain Since 1500: Memory, Materiality and Landscape (187-213). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74243-4_8

Acts and marks of commemoration, from anniversary dinners to monuments and statues, were vital components in the production of English democratic culture in the ‘age of revolutions’. But strategies for remembering were not always consensual and refor... Read More about The politics of 'protest heritage', 1790-1850.

Rewriting the romance: Emotion work and consent in arranged marriage fanfiction (2018)
Journal Article
Popova, M. (2018). Rewriting the romance: Emotion work and consent in arranged marriage fanfiction. Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 7,

In this paper, I explore arranged marriage fanfiction stories as a space where marriage as an institution is challenged and alternative discourses around sexual consent in unequal intimate relationships are generated. Fanfiction is amateur fiction... Read More about Rewriting the romance: Emotion work and consent in arranged marriage fanfiction.

Yr ymgyrch yn parhau! (The struggle continues!): An exploration of the narratives from Wales, emerging from the Greenham Common women’s peace camps 1981-2000 (2018)
Thesis
Titcombe, E. E. Yr ymgyrch yn parhau! (The struggle continues!): An exploration of the narratives from Wales, emerging from the Greenham Common women’s peace camps 1981-2000. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/866857

In 1981, a group of women from Wales formed a protest march against the positioning of 96 nuclear weapons at an RAF base at Greenham Common. This protest subsequently developed into several women-only protest camps situated around the perimeter fence... Read More about Yr ymgyrch yn parhau! (The struggle continues!): An exploration of the narratives from Wales, emerging from the Greenham Common women’s peace camps 1981-2000.

"Slight dub-con but they both wanted it hardcore": Erotic fanfiction as a form of cultural activism around sexual consent (2018)
Thesis
Popova, M. "Slight dub-con but they both wanted it hardcore": Erotic fanfiction as a form of cultural activism around sexual consent. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/869400

In this thesis I argue that the treatment of issues of sexual consent in erotic fanfiction can be viewed as a form of cultural activism. Using a combination of traditional, digital and autoethnography, as well as discourse analysis, I trace engag... Read More about "Slight dub-con but they both wanted it hardcore": Erotic fanfiction as a form of cultural activism around sexual consent.

Phonological awareness and word reading development in Acehnese-Indonesian bilinguals learning English as a third language (2018)
Thesis
Irnanda, S. Phonological awareness and word reading development in Acehnese-Indonesian bilinguals learning English as a third language. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/869379

This study investigates the phonological awareness and multi-literacy acquisitions of Indonesian-speaking children with a varied level of Acehnese spoken language experience. The study specifically looks for the possibility of metalinguistic awarenes... Read More about Phonological awareness and word reading development in Acehnese-Indonesian bilinguals learning English as a third language.