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The Turks and Caicos Islands: Why does the cloud still hang? (2012)
Journal Article
Clegg, P. (2012). The Turks and Caicos Islands: Why does the cloud still hang?. Social and Economic Studies- Institute of Social and Economic Research University of the West Indies Jamaica, 61(1), 23-47

This paper considers the report of the 2009 UK government-appointed Commission of Inquiry into corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), and draws comparisons with a similar Commission of Inquiry undertaken in 1986. The paper evaluates the ch... Read More about The Turks and Caicos Islands: Why does the cloud still hang?.

A toponomastic contribution to the linguistic prehistory of the British Isles (2012)
Journal Article
Coates, R. (2012). A toponomastic contribution to the linguistic prehistory of the British Isles. Nomina, 35, 49-102

It is well known that some of the major island-names of the archipelago consisting politically of the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the UK Crown Dependencies are etymologically obscure. In this paper, I present and cautiously analyse a... Read More about A toponomastic contribution to the linguistic prehistory of the British Isles.

New perspectives on language transfer (2012)
Journal Article
Treffers-Daller, J., & Sakel, J. (2012). New perspectives on language transfer. International Journal of Bilingualism, 16(1),

Editing (and) individuation (2012)
Journal Article
Crogan, P. (2012). Editing (and) individuation. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics, 97-110

This essay will explore aspects of Bernard Stiegler's theorisation of film editing as the construction of a flux of perceptual experience at the heart of the industrialisation of attention characteristic of modern and contemporary technocultures. Thi... Read More about Editing (and) individuation.

From Llanfihangel Crucorney and Zagreb to the Stars!: Andrew Milner, ed., Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia and Darko Suvin, Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology (2012)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2012). From Llanfihangel Crucorney and Zagreb to the Stars!: Andrew Milner, ed., Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia and Darko Suvin, Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology. Science Fiction Studies, 117, 304-312

Review essay

China Miéville, Architeuthis Cadre (2012)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2012). China Miéville, Architeuthis Cadre. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 23(3), 374-376

Introduction

Heritage and the post-apartheid city: Constitution Hill, Johannesburg (2012)
Journal Article
Flynn, M. K., & King, T. (2012). Heritage and the post-apartheid city: Constitution Hill, Johannesburg. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 18(1), 65-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2011.599404

This article examines the development of Constitution Hill on the site of the Old Fort prison in Johannesburg, South Africa. Constitution Hill is the location of the new Constitutional Court and has two main purposes. First, as a heritage site it att... Read More about Heritage and the post-apartheid city: Constitution Hill, Johannesburg.

Modelling vocabulary growth in a foreign language (2012)
Journal Article
Daller, M., Turlik, J., & Weir, I. Modelling vocabulary growth in a foreign language. Manuscript submitted for publication

Many studies in a variety of educational contexts show that learning curves are non-linear (e.g. Freedman 1987 for the development of story telling skills in the first language, De Keyser 1997 for the acquisition of morphosyntactic rules of an artifi... Read More about Modelling vocabulary growth in a foreign language.

Forensic deliberations on ‘purposeful metaphor’ (2012)
Journal Article
Charteris-Black, J. (2012). Forensic deliberations on ‘purposeful metaphor’. Metaphor and the Social World, 2(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.2.1.01cha

The concept of ‘purposeful metaphor’ is proposed as an alternative to ‘deliberate metaphor’ (Steen, 2008) in providing a theory of metaphor in discourse and communication. The case for ‘purposeful metaphor’ is framed within a discussion of intentiona... Read More about Forensic deliberations on ‘purposeful metaphor’.