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Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses (2016)
Journal Article
Murphy, J. (2016). Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses. Pragmatics and Society, 7(4), 595-617

This paper discusses apologies made by politicians at a recent UK public inquiry, The Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press. I use the freely available data from the Inquiry to explore how politicians apologise in this i... Read More about Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses.

Emerson's "Apposite Metaphors" and the grounds of creativity (2016)
Journal Article
Greenham, D. (2016). Emerson's "Apposite Metaphors" and the grounds of creativity. Anglo-Saxónica, III(12), 101-120

This article offers an original interpretation of Emerson's theory of metaphor as a principle of creation as it appears in his lectures and journal of the 1820s and 1830s, the essay 'Nature' (1836), and as it develops into his theory of symbolism in... Read More about Emerson's "Apposite Metaphors" and the grounds of creativity.

Cultural Policy Innovation and the Creative Economy: Creative collaborations in Arts and Humanities research (2016)
Book
Shiach, M., & Virani, T. (Eds.). (2016). Cultural Policy Innovation and the Creative Economy: Creative collaborations in Arts and Humanities research. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95112-3

This book develops important new insights into the conditions that enable effective collaborations between arts and humanities researchers and SMEs in the creative economy. Drawing on the work of Creativeworks London, an AHRC-funded Knowledge Exchang... Read More about Cultural Policy Innovation and the Creative Economy: Creative collaborations in Arts and Humanities research.

Women in Bristol, 1373-1660 (2016)
Book Chapter
Fleming, P. (2016). Women in Bristol, 1373-1660. In M. Dresser (Ed.), Women and the City: Bristol, 1373-2000 (15-44). Bristol: Redcliffe Press

A discussion of the evidence for the lives of women in later medieval and early-modern Bristol, with specific reference to what can be learned from this of their interaction with men and their ability to influence the life of the town/city.

Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe and Authority (2016)
Book
Charteris-Black, J. (2016). Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe and Authority. (1). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474219556

This detailed study of fire metaphors provides a deep understanding of the purposeful work of metaphor in discourse. It analyses how and why fire metaphors are used in discourses of awe (mythology and religion) and authority (political speeches and m... Read More about Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe and Authority.

Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors (2016)
Journal Article
Kirjavainen, M., Lieven, E. V. M., & Theakston, A. L. (2017). Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors. Cognitive Science, 41(5), 1242-1273. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12407

Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Cognitive Science published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Cognitive Science Society. An experimental study was conducted on children aged 2;6–3;0 and 3;6–4;0 investigating the priming effect of two WANT-constru... Read More about Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors.