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“Cascades, torrents & drowning” in information: seeking help in the contemporary general practitioner practice in the UK (2016)
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© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. ABSTRACT: This paper responds to the Alpine Rendez-Vous “crisis” in technology-enhanced learning. It takes a contested area of policy as well as a rapid change in the National Health Service, and... Read More about “Cascades, torrents & drowning” in information: seeking help in the contemporary general practitioner practice in the UK.

How do language-specific characteristics affect the acquisition of different relative clause types? Evidence from Finnish (2016)
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016. We report three studies (one corpus, two experimental) that investigated the acquisition of relative clauses (RCs) in Finnish-speaking children. Study 1 found that Finnish children's naturalistic exposure... Read More about How do language-specific characteristics affect the acquisition of different relative clause types? Evidence from Finnish.

The Hidden Jane Austen [Book Review] (2016)
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Book review of John Wiltshire's The Hidden Jane Austen

Book review: Dickens and the Imagined Child (2016)
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This is a book review of Dickens and the Imagined Child, edited by Peter Merchant and Catherine Waters.

Alors/donc/then at the right periphery: Seeking confirmation of an inference (2016)
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This paper compares the functions and development of right peripheral (RP) alors, donc and then in French and English. These items developed historically from temporal expressions, they express consequence and can serve, intersubjectively, as an appe... Read More about Alors/donc/then at the right periphery: Seeking confirmation of an inference.

The automation of everyday life (2016)
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This text is the translation of the conference The automation of Everyday Life, delivered by Dr. Patrick Crogan (University of West of England, Bristol), the 5th of February of 2016 on the Meetings about communitacion and digital culture:Emerging res... Read More about The automation of everyday life.

Austen writing Bristol: The city and signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma (2015)
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This essay suggests that Austen’s portrayal of Bristol in her fiction has two specific functions. First, it underscores her topographical realism: the references to the city and its immediate environs show how her novels are set in the recognizably r... Read More about Austen writing Bristol: The city and signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma.

Linguistic Capital and Development Capital in a Network of Cultural Producers: Mutually Valuing Peer Groups in the ‘Interactive Fiction’ Retrogaming Scene (2015)
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© The Author(s) 2015. This article reports on a mixed-methods study of the cultural valuing of ‘interactive fiction’ or ‘text adventure games’: a formerly commercial videogame genre sometimes associated with electronic literature but here argued to b... Read More about Linguistic Capital and Development Capital in a Network of Cultural Producers: Mutually Valuing Peer Groups in the ‘Interactive Fiction’ Retrogaming Scene.

Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming (2015)
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The author explores the origins and context of the Romantic generation’s passion for swimming, considers some of the literary meanings and uses of swimming in writing of that period, and looks in particular at the way swimming features in the lives a... Read More about Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming.

Countering the “contract-bargain”: Credit, debt, and the moral economy in David Copperfield (2015)
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This essay argues that personal credit and debt relations play a vital role in David Copperfield. David's circle of family and friends is economically interdependent; the way this group functions does not endorse the concept of the possessive individ... Read More about Countering the “contract-bargain”: Credit, debt, and the moral economy in David Copperfield.

Book review: If colonialism was the apocalypse, what happens next? On Nerine Dorman, ed., 'Terra Incognita: New Short Speculative Stories from Africa' and Dilman Dila, 'A Killing in the Sun’ (2015)
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Review article on contemporary African sf.

The speaker behind the voice: Therapeutic practice from the perspective of pragmatic theory (2015)
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Many attempts at understanding auditory verbal hallucinations have tried to explain why there is an auditory experience in the absence of an appropriate stimulus. We suggest that many instance of voice-hearing should be approached differently. More s... Read More about The speaker behind the voice: Therapeutic practice from the perspective of pragmatic theory.

Creating the slum: Representations of poverty in the Hungate and Walmgate districts of York, 1875-1914 (2015)
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Using a range of sources, this article addresses the ways in which the press, social investigators and middle-class commentators constructed an image and reputation for the working-class districts of Walmgate and Hungate in York; a reputation which m... Read More about Creating the slum: Representations of poverty in the Hungate and Walmgate districts of York, 1875-1914.

African science fiction 101 (2015)
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Critical-historical overview of science fiction from Africa

“Caught in the cross fire”: Sir Gerald Campbell, Lord Beaverbrook and the near demise of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, May-October 1940 (2015)
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This essay examines a highly significant but little know incident –the ‘Campbell affair’ - that occurred during the first six months of Winston Churchill’s premiership between May and October 1940. As the RAF and Luftwaffe fought for aerial supremac... Read More about “Caught in the cross fire”: Sir Gerald Campbell, Lord Beaverbrook and the near demise of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, May-October 1940.

English regional dialect lexis in the names and occupations of the Gloucestershire Cotswolds: A reassessment of the relationship between names and dialects (2015)
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© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston. A number of surname-based studies have presented a relationship between medieval regional dialect lexis and the distribution of associated modern-day surnames. However, by carrying out localised research, it... Read More about English regional dialect lexis in the names and occupations of the Gloucestershire Cotswolds: A reassessment of the relationship between names and dialects.

The fourteenth-century poll tax returns and the study of English surname distribution (2015)
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The modern-day distributions of English surnames have been considered in genealogical, historical, and philological research as possible indicators of their origins. However, many centuries have passed since hereditary surnames were first used, and s... Read More about The fourteenth-century poll tax returns and the study of English surname distribution.

Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place (2015)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. While recent debate has often focused on a reified “cultural value” (whether opposed to or aligned with monetary value), this article treats “value” as a verb and investigates the acts of valuing in which people engage. Thr... Read More about Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place.

Dries van noten—inspirations (2015)
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“Dries Van Noten – Inspirations”. Exhibition at Musee Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, March 1st -November 2nd 2014. This 5,000 word commissioned illustrated article asks fundamental questions about the role of fashion exhibitions in the twenty first... Read More about Dries van noten—inspirations.

How was the activity? A visualization support for a case of location-based learning design (2015)
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© 2014 British Educational Research Association. Over the last few years, the use of mobile technologies has brought the formulation of location-based learning approaches shaping new or enhanced educational activities. Involving teachers in the desig... Read More about How was the activity? A visualization support for a case of location-based learning design.