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Austen writing Bristol: The city and signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma (2015)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2015). Austen writing Bristol: The city and signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma

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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Allington, D. (2016). Linguistic Capital and Development Capital in a Network of Cultural Producers: Mutually Valuing Peer Groups in the ‘Interactive Fiction’ Retrogaming Scene. Cultural Sociology, 10(2), 267-286. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975515598333

© 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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Jarvis, R. (2015). Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming. Romanticism, 21(3), 250-264. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2015.0242

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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Ballinger, G. (2015). Countering the “contract-bargain”: Credit, debt, and the moral economy in David Copperfield. Dickens Studies Annual, 46(1), 167-184. https://doi.org/10.7756/dsa.046.007/167-84

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.

The speaker behind the voice: Therapeutic practice from the perspective of pragmatic theory (2015)
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Deamer, F., & Wilkinson, S. (2015). The speaker behind the voice: Therapeutic practice from the perspective of pragmatic theory. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 817. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00817

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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Harrison, L. (2015). Creating the slum: Representations of poverty in the Hungate and Walmgate districts of York, 1875-1914

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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Bould, M. (2015). African science fiction 101

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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Fedorowich, K. (2015). “Caught in the cross fire”: Sir Gerald Campbell, Lord Beaverbrook and the near demise of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, May-October 1940. Journal of Military History, 79(1), 37-68

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.

The nation's matron: Hattie Jacques and British postwar popular culture (2015)
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Tincknell, E. (2015). The nation's matron: Hattie Jacques and British postwar popular culture. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 12(1), 6-24. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2015.0240

© Edinburgh University Press. Hattie Jacques was a key figure in British postwar popular cinema and culture, condensing a range of contradictions around power, desire, femininity and class through her performances as a comedienne, primarily in the Ca... Read More about The nation's matron: Hattie Jacques and British postwar popular culture.

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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Parkin, H. (2015). English regional dialect lexis in the names and occupations of the Gloucestershire Cotswolds: A reassessment of the relationship between names and dialects. Dialectologia et Geolinguistica, 23(1), 24-37. https://doi.org/10.1515/dialect-2015-0002

© 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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Parkin, H. (2015). The fourteenth-century poll tax returns and the study of English surname distribution. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 48(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2014.946985

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.

Are you reading what I am reading? The impact of contrasting alphabetic scripts on reading English (2015)
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Iakovleva, T., Piasecki, A. E., & Dijkstra, T. (2015). Are you reading what I am reading? The impact of contrasting alphabetic scripts on reading English. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1347, 112-116

This study examines the impact of the crosslinguistic similarity of translation equivalents on word recognition by Russian-English bilinguals, who are fluent in languages with two different but partially overlapping writing systems. Current models fo... Read More about Are you reading what I am reading? The impact of contrasting alphabetic scripts on reading English.

Revisiting the apology as a speech act The case of parliamentary apologies (2015)
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Murphy, J. (2015). Revisiting the apology as a speech act The case of parliamentary apologies. Journal of Language and Politics, 14(2), 175-204. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.14.2.01mur

© John Benjamins Publishing Company. By looking at both apologies made in everyday conversation and those made by politicians in public, I aim in this paper to provide a full set of felicity conditions for the speech act of apology. I also discuss ho... Read More about Revisiting the apology as a speech act The case of parliamentary apologies.

Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place (2015)
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Allington, D., Dueck, B., & Jordanous, A. (2015). Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place. Cultural Trends, 24(3), 211-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2015.1066073

© 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.

‘‘Altars to the beautiful necessity’’: The significance of F. W. J. Schelling’s ‘‘philosophical inquiries in the nature of human freedom’’ in the development of Ralph Waldo emerson’s concept of fate (2015)
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Greenham, D. (2015). ‘‘Altars to the beautiful necessity’’: The significance of F. W. J. Schelling’s ‘‘philosophical inquiries in the nature of human freedom’’ in the development of Ralph Waldo emerson’s concept of fate. Journal of the History of Ideas, 76(1), 115-137. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2015.0001

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1860 essay “Fate” has long been recognised as one of his most important essays. This paper is the first to examine the significance for Emerson of his reading of F. W. J. Shelling’s “Inquiry into the Nature of Human Freedom” usi... Read More about ‘‘Altars to the beautiful necessity’’: The significance of F. W. J. Schelling’s ‘‘philosophical inquiries in the nature of human freedom’’ in the development of Ralph Waldo emerson’s concept of fate.

How was the activity? A visualization support for a case of location-based learning design (2015)
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Melero, J., Hernández-Leo, D., Sun, J., Santos, P., & Blat, J. (2015). How was the activity? A visualization support for a case of location-based learning design. British Journal of Educational Technology, 46(2), 317-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12238

© 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.