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The effect of language-specific characteristics on English and Japanese speakers' ability to recall number information (2020)
Journal Article
Kirjavainen, M., Kite, Y., & Piasecki, A. E. (2020). The effect of language-specific characteristics on English and Japanese speakers' ability to recall number information. Cognitive Science, 44(12), Article e12923. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12923

The current paper presents two experiments investigating the effect of presence versus absence of compulsory number marking in a native language on a speaker’s ability to recall number information from photos. In Experiment 1, monolingual English and... Read More about The effect of language-specific characteristics on English and Japanese speakers' ability to recall number information.

The health and well-being effects of drought: Assessing multi-stakeholder perspectives through narratives from the UK (2020)
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Bryan, K., Ward, S., Roberts, L., White, M. P., Landeg, O., Taylor, T., & McEwen, L. (2020). The health and well-being effects of drought: Assessing multi-stakeholder perspectives through narratives from the UK. Climatic Change, 163(4), 2073-2095. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02916-x

The global literature on drought and health highlights a variety of health effects for people in developing countries where certain prevailing social, economic and environmental conditions increase their vulnerability especially with climate change.... Read More about The health and well-being effects of drought: Assessing multi-stakeholder perspectives through narratives from the UK.

4 ‘The instinct for hero worship works blindly’: English radical democrats and the problem of memorialization (2020)
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Poole, S. (2020). 4 ‘The instinct for hero worship works blindly’: English radical democrats and the problem of memorialization. Patterns of Prejudice, 54(5), 503-512. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2021.1942402

Poole’s essay explores a number of historical precedents for today’s debates concerning statuary memorialization. Early-nineteenth-century radicals shared many of the same discussions and tactics that feature in modern controversies over memorial sta... Read More about 4 ‘The instinct for hero worship works blindly’: English radical democrats and the problem of memorialization.

The “Sawdust Fusiliers": The Canadian Forestry Corps in Devon, 1916-19 (2020)
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Fedorowich, K. (2020). The “Sawdust Fusiliers": The Canadian Forestry Corps in Devon, 1916-19. Histoire Sociale / Social History, 53(109), 519-544. https://doi.org/10.1353/his.2020.0030

In April 1916, the first battalion of Canadian lumberjacks arrived in England to initiate large-scale forestry operations. The remarkable achievements of the men of the Canadian Forestry Corps—who would number almost 32,000 by November 1918—are littl... Read More about The “Sawdust Fusiliers": The Canadian Forestry Corps in Devon, 1916-19.

‘There wasn’t all that much to do … at least not here’: Memories of growing up in rural South West England in the early twentieth century (2020)
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Harrison, L. (2020). ‘There wasn’t all that much to do … at least not here’: Memories of growing up in rural South West England in the early twentieth century. Rural History, 31(2), 165-180. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793320000199

Stan was born in 1911 in a small village near the north Somerset coast. When recalling his life in the countryside, he felt that ‘there wasn’t much to do in the evenings … at least not here’. Drawing upon evidence from personal accounts of growing up... Read More about ‘There wasn’t all that much to do … at least not here’: Memories of growing up in rural South West England in the early twentieth century.

Multisensory ethnography through emplaced Augmented Reality (2020)
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Eagle, R. (2020). Multisensory ethnography through emplaced Augmented Reality. Anthrovision, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.4000/anthrovision.6563

Incorporating moving and still images and audio within the text, I examine in this article how site-specific augmented reality (AR) can convey ethnographic research and forms of embodied knowledge through emplacing the audience and engaging their bod... Read More about Multisensory ethnography through emplaced Augmented Reality.

Micro-community engagement and area-based regeneration in East London: The case of Chrisp Street Market (2020)
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Virani, T. (2020). Micro-community engagement and area-based regeneration in East London: The case of Chrisp Street Market. City, Culture and Society, 22, Article 100345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2020.100345

This paper critically engages with how the notion of community is used in local economic development in England. Its primary concern is how current understandings of the concept of ‘community’ in regeneration, as well as how it is instrumentalised th... Read More about Micro-community engagement and area-based regeneration in East London: The case of Chrisp Street Market.

Voice-hearing and personification: Characterizing social qualities of auditory verbal hallucinations in early psychosis (2020)
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Alderson-Day, B., Woods, A., Moseley, P., Common, S., Deamer, F., Dodgson, G., & Fernyhough, C. (2021). Voice-hearing and personification: Characterizing social qualities of auditory verbal hallucinations in early psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 47(1), 228-236. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa095

Recent therapeutic approaches to auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) exploit the person-like qualities of voices. Little is known, however, about how, why, and when AVH become personified. We aimed to investigate personification in individuals' earl... Read More about Voice-hearing and personification: Characterizing social qualities of auditory verbal hallucinations in early psychosis.

The forward view: Austen Henry Layard and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 (2020)
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Fisher, J. (2020). The forward view: Austen Henry Layard and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877. The Maghreb review. Majallat al-Maghrib, 45(3),

As British Ambassador at Constantinople during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, Austen Henry Layard was the proverbial ‘man on the spot’: an emissary, on the fringes of empire, entrusted to defend Britain’s informal empire in the Near East. Layard’s fo... Read More about The forward view: Austen Henry Layard and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877.

Situating simultaneity: An initial schematisation of the lexicogrammatical rank scale of British Sign Language (2020)
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Rudge, L. A. (2020). Situating simultaneity: An initial schematisation of the lexicogrammatical rank scale of British Sign Language. Word, 66(2), 98-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/00437956.2020.1751974

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.

Coworking spaces in urban settings: Prospective roles? (2020)
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Nakano, D., Shiach, M., Koria, M., Vasques, R., Gomes dos Santos, E., & Virani, T. (2020). Coworking spaces in urban settings: Prospective roles?. Geoforum, 115, 135-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.04.014

Coworking spaces (CWS) are workplaces created to provide infrastructure and interaction opportunities for independent professionals and freelancers. They are a result of a trend toward flexible and project-based assignments, shared use of durable ass... Read More about Coworking spaces in urban settings: Prospective roles?.

A world fit for money laundering: The Atlantic alliance’s undermining of organized crime control (2020)
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Young, M. A., & Woodiwiss, M. (2021). A world fit for money laundering: The Atlantic alliance’s undermining of organized crime control. Trends in Organized Crime, 24(1), 70-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-020-09386-8

This is the untold history of how prominent civil servants in the UK tailored US-devised anti-money laundering (AML) policies in ways that suited the needs of Britain’s financial services industry. In the aftermath of these initial compromises in 198... Read More about A world fit for money laundering: The Atlantic alliance’s undermining of organized crime control.

French hash? Southey's editing of the Annual Anthology (2020)
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Jarvis, R. (2020). French hash? Southey's editing of the Annual Anthology. Romanticism, 26(1), 75-88. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2020.0449

Robert Southey’s Annual Anthology, which aimed to present a selection of current poetry and drew largely on his own friends and acquaintances, ran for just two volumes between 1799 and 1800. Although critics have shed light on individual poems and re... Read More about French hash? Southey's editing of the Annual Anthology.

Global ambitions and local identities: New speakers’ access to linguistic markets and resources (2020)
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Selleck, C. (2020). Global ambitions and local identities: New speakers’ access to linguistic markets and resources. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 33(4), 451-466. https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2020.1726375

A growing body of literature has addressed the ‘complex layers and nuances of today’s multilingual, mobile and global society’ [Barakos & Selleck, 2019, Elite multilingualism: Discourses, practices, and debates. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultu... Read More about Global ambitions and local identities: New speakers’ access to linguistic markets and resources.