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What happened to knowledge about language? (2023)
Journal Article

Recently, preparing a report for the Committee for Linguistics in Education, I made a content analysis of the linguistic terms used in the Ofsted (Citation2022) Curriculum Research Review for English. The most surprising result of my analysis was the... Read More about What happened to knowledge about language?.

An etymology for campshed (2023)
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The Oxford English Dictionary [OED] defines this word as follows: ‘[a] facing of piles and boarding along the bank of a river, or at the side of an embankment, to protect the bank from the action of the current, or to resist the out-thrust of the emb... Read More about An etymology for campshed.

Broadcasting crown court sentencing - A tentative step forward for open justice? (2023)
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Pursuant to the Crown Court (Recording and Broadcasting) Order 2020, television cameras have now been permitted to broadcast sentencing remarks made by Judges in Crown Courts. The first such occasion of this was in the case of R v Ben Oliver (2022).... Read More about Broadcasting crown court sentencing - A tentative step forward for open justice?.

A discourse analytic study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter (2023)
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This article analyzes tweets produced during the “fix the country” campaign on Ghanaian Twitter. It illustrates how the affordances of social media can empower campaigners and how linguistic choices, even on digital platforms, can be conditioned by s... Read More about A discourse analytic study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter.

Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-historical analysis of populist performance (2022)
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Employing Wodak's discourse-historical approach, this paper examines how Ghana's independence leader - Kwame Nkrumah - in his creation of the Unite or Perish myth constructed 'the African people' in a manner in sync with populist performance. It argu... Read More about Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-historical analysis of populist performance.

Under which king, Bezonian? (2022)
Journal Article

Reading the recent Ofsted Curriculum Research Review of English shortly after the accession of a new monarch to the UK throne brings to mind Pistol’s reply to Justice Shallow when he tries to claim authority under the king: “Under which king, Bezonia... Read More about Under which king, Bezonian?.

The genealogy of 'cultural literacy' (2022)
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The British government's current educational policy for England draws on E.D. Hirsch's writings on 'cultural literacy'. This paper aims to uncover the roots of Hirsch’s influential views through a genealogical critique. Hirsch admired the Scottish En... Read More about The genealogy of 'cultural literacy'.

Make grammar great again? (2021)
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The teaching of grammar has been strongly debated for decades, often with reference to an alleged decline in the 1960s. This article takes a historical perspective on grammar, or knowledge about language, within English Education. In the eighteenth c... Read More about Make grammar great again?.

Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um (2021)
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The current paper presents three studies that investigated the effect of exposure on the mental representations of filled pauses (um/uh). In Study 1, a corpus analysis identified the frequency of co-occurrence of filled pauses with words located imme... Read More about Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um.

British satirical poems and cartoons about Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte: Deconstructing authenticity and aura (2021)
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This article draws on opposing cultural concepts of authenticity and imitation, combined with Walter Benjamin’s notion of the aura, to examine the self-promotion of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as successor of Napoleon I. The article confronts Louis-Napo... Read More about British satirical poems and cartoons about Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte: Deconstructing authenticity and aura.

The impresario in British cinema: Bernard Delfont at EMI (2021)
Journal Article

The article argues that Bernard Delfont played a significant role in the development of the British film industry in the 1970s as head of EMI’s entertainment division that included film. In contradistinction to existing accounts, it is contended that... Read More about The impresario in British cinema: Bernard Delfont at EMI.

The effect of language-specific characteristics on English and Japanese speakers' ability to recall number information (2020)
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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.

Situating simultaneity: An initial schematisation of the lexicogrammatical rank scale of British Sign Language (2020)
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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.