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Are infinitival to omission errors primed by prior discourse? The case of WANT constructions (2011)
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This paper examines the suggestion that infinitival to omission errors in English-speaking children can result from competition between two constructions (Kirjavainen et al. 2009a). Kirjavainen et al. suggested that the acquisition of two (or more) c... Read More about Are infinitival to omission errors primed by prior discourse? The case of WANT constructions.
Denuclearisation practices of Kazakhstan: Performing sovereign identity, preserving national security (2011)
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In this article, I investigate the processes of the discursive construction of the identity of Kazakhstan as a sovereign and non-nuclear state, and show how the construction and performance of these identities are both productive and the product of N... Read More about Denuclearisation practices of Kazakhstan: Performing sovereign identity, preserving national security.
Barbara Pym (2011)
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A biography of Pym and a summary of some of the key themes in her novels.
Decision-making and contested heritage in Northern Ireland: The former maze prison/long kesh (2011)
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The former Maze Prison/Long Kesh in Lisburn, near Belfast, is one of the primary sites associated with the 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland. Controversy about the site's future makes it clear that the redevelopment of contested heritage cannot be d... Read More about Decision-making and contested heritage in Northern Ireland: The former maze prison/long kesh.
Contemporary arguments for a geometry of visual experience (2011)
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In this paper I consider recent attempts to establish that the geometry of visual experience is a spherical geometry. These attempts, offered by Gideon Yaffe, James van Cleve and Gordon Belot, follow Thomas Reid in arguing for an equivalency of a geo... Read More about Contemporary arguments for a geometry of visual experience.
Dramatic monologue, detective fiction and the search for meaning (2011)
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This essay compares the genres of the dramatic monologue and detective fiction in terms of their contemporaneous development and respective reading processes. Drawing on narratological categories, it examines the emphasis in both genres on the withho... Read More about Dramatic monologue, detective fiction and the search for meaning.
'So what problems bother you and you are not speeding up your work?' problem solving talk at work (2011)
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Problem solving (PbS) can be readily described as one of the key activities regularly performed by professionals in any workplace setting. Despite its importance, however, there is relatively little (socio)linguistic research which looks at the compl... Read More about 'So what problems bother you and you are not speeding up your work?' problem solving talk at work.
Mind the gap: the impertinent predicates (and subjects) of King Rat and Looking for Jake and other stories (2011)
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A critical account of China Miéville’s King Rat and the stories in Looking for Jake, which considers contemporary attempts to anatomise the fantastic and draws on the theorisations of metaphor to open up a new approach to fantastic texts.
Cinema distribution in the age of digital projection (2011)
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It has become almost axiomatic to state that the transition to digital technologies represents a momentous period of change for the cinema. As Angelo D’Alessio of the European Digital Cinema Form suggests, “the Cinema industry is confronting unparall... Read More about Cinema distribution in the age of digital projection.
Early voting and informed voters in America (2011)
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Kierkegaard, battersby and feminism (2011)
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Is god a mindless vegetable? Cudworth on Stoic theology (2011)
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In the sixteenth century the Stoics were deemed friends of humanist Christians, but by the eighteenth century they were attacked as atheists. What happened in the intervening period? In the middle of this period falls Ralph Cudworth’s True Intellectu... Read More about Is god a mindless vegetable? Cudworth on Stoic theology.
HD aesthetics (2011)
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Professional expertise derived from developing and handling higher resolution technologies now challenges academic convention by seeking to reinscribe digital image making as a material process. In this article and an accompanying online resource, I... Read More about HD aesthetics.
David Greig's conflict spaces (2011)
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Investigating the contribution of procedural and declarative memory to the acquisition of past tense morphology: Evidence from Finnish (2011)
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The present paper reports on a study that investigated the role of procedural and declarative memory in the acquisition of Finnish past tense morphology. Two competing models were tested. Ullman's (2004) declarative/procedural model predicts that pro... Read More about Investigating the contribution of procedural and declarative memory to the acquisition of past tense morphology: Evidence from Finnish.
A well-being support program for patients with severe mental illness: A service evaluation (2011)
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Background: The risk of cardiovascular disease is increased in patients with severe mental illness (SMI) dramatically reducing life expectancy.Method: A real world pragmatic service evaluation of a Well-Being Support Program (WSP) was conducted. This... Read More about A well-being support program for patients with severe mental illness: A service evaluation.
"A discordant Note": NATO and the Greek junta, 1967-1974 (2011)
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This article examines the tensions that arose within transatlantic relations when Greece, a NATO member state, began to violate its citizens' human rights and civil liberties following a military coup in 1967. It considers and analyses NATO's subsequ... Read More about "A discordant Note": NATO and the Greek junta, 1967-1974.
The UK overseas territories: A decade of progress and prosperity? (2011)
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This article analyses the relationship between the UK and its Overseas Territories since the publication of the 1999 White Paper Partnership for Progress and Prosperity. The article considers the efforts by the UK government to improve links with the... Read More about The UK overseas territories: A decade of progress and prosperity?.
Suggested further readings in the slipstream (2011)
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