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I'm sorry you are such an arsehole: (non-)canonical apologies and their implications for (im)politeness (2018)
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Murphy, J. (2019). I'm sorry you are such an arsehole: (non-)canonical apologies and their implications for (im)politeness. Journal of Pragmatics, 142, 223-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.05.014

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. I report on a study into how native British English speakers (N = 78) respond to various instances of I'm sorry played to them in an experimental setting. The test items vary in terms of what the speaker is ‘sorry’ for, but are c... Read More about I'm sorry you are such an arsehole: (non-)canonical apologies and their implications for (im)politeness.

'Horrid rebellion' and 'holie cheate': Royalist gentry responses to interregnum government in North-East Wales, 1646-1660 (2018)
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Clavier, S. W. (2018). 'Horrid rebellion' and 'holie cheate': Royalist gentry responses to interregnum government in North-East Wales, 1646-1660. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru / Welsh History Review, 29(1), 51-72. https://doi.org/10.16922/whr.29.1.3

This article significantly adds to works on Interregnum religion and government by considering the response to that period of a conservative, rather than a radical, region and social group. It examines the reaction of the royalist, religiously conser... Read More about 'Horrid rebellion' and 'holie cheate': Royalist gentry responses to interregnum government in North-East Wales, 1646-1660.

What am I still doing here? Travel, travel writing, and old age (2018)
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Jarvis, R. (2018). What am I still doing here? Travel, travel writing, and old age. Journeys, 19(1), 88-106. https://doi.org/10.3167/jys.2018.190105

This article offers preliminary thoughts on travel writing from a gerontological perspective. Gender, race, and sexuality have provided important analytical frames for travel writing studies but age has yet to function as a topic or point of referenc... Read More about What am I still doing here? Travel, travel writing, and old age.

‘The streets have been watched regularly’: The York Penitentiary Society, young working-class women, and the regulation of behaviour in the public spaces of York, c. 1845– 1919 (2018)
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Harrison, L. (2019). ‘The streets have been watched regularly’: The York Penitentiary Society, young working-class women, and the regulation of behaviour in the public spaces of York, c. 1845– 1919. Women's History Review, 28(3), 457-478. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1477105

© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The York Penitentiary Society, a charitable female reformatory in York, aimed to transform ‘fallen’ women in the city into useful citizens through institutionalisation, domestic training... Read More about ‘The streets have been watched regularly’: The York Penitentiary Society, young working-class women, and the regulation of behaviour in the public spaces of York, c. 1845– 1919.

Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning (2018)
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Webb, S., & Piasecki, A. (2018). Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning. ITL, 169(1), 72-94. https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.00007.web

This study investigated the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning by comparing three conditions in which there was (a) limited time to write words, (b) unlimited time to write words, and (c) a non-writing word-picture pairs comparison. Non-n... Read More about Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning.

From Zouaves Pontificaux to the volontaires de l'Ouest: Catholic volunteers and the French Nation, 1860-1910 (2018)
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Simpson, M. (2018). From Zouaves Pontificaux to the volontaires de l'Ouest: Catholic volunteers and the French Nation, 1860-1910. Annales canadiennes d'histoire / Canadian Journal of History, 53(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.ach.53.1.01

This article examines the French papal zouaves, volunteers who fought for the defence of the temporal sovereignty of the Pope in the decade 1860-1870, and their successors, the irregular Volunteers of the West. The latter was a volunteer force formed... Read More about From Zouaves Pontificaux to the volontaires de l'Ouest: Catholic volunteers and the French Nation, 1860-1910.

Relating therapy for distressing voices: Who, or what, is changing? (2018)
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Hayward, M., Bogen-Johnston, L., & Deamer, F. (2018). Relating therapy for distressing voices: Who, or what, is changing?. Psychosis, 10(2), 132-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2018.1469037

Background: The experience of hearing distressing voices has recently been conceptualised within relational terms, whereby the voice is perceived as a person-like stimulus with whom the hearer has a difficult relationship. Therapeutic approaches are... Read More about Relating therapy for distressing voices: Who, or what, is changing?.

Radio as a Screen Medium in BBC Arts Broadcasting (2018)
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Genders, A. (2018). Radio as a Screen Medium in BBC Arts Broadcasting. Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 25(1), 142-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2017.1415343

Today more than half of all radio listening in the UK is occurring through digital platforms. Within this context the BBC’s current arts proposition provides a valuable insight into how public service broadcasters are adapting and responding to this... Read More about Radio as a Screen Medium in BBC Arts Broadcasting.

Breaking the generic mould? Grayson Perry, Channel 4 and the production of British arts television (2018)
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Noonan, C., & Genders, A. (2018). Breaking the generic mould? Grayson Perry, Channel 4 and the production of British arts television. Critical Studies in Television, 13(1), 79-95. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602017746355

© 2018, © The Author(s) 2018. This article examines Channel 4’s critically acclaimed series, Grayson Perry: Who Are You? (2014). Using interviews with those involved in making the series and textual analysis, we argue that the elements that contribut... Read More about Breaking the generic mould? Grayson Perry, Channel 4 and the production of British arts television.

Indie Dreams: Video Games, Creative Economy, and the Hyperindustrial Epoch (2018)
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Crogan, P. (2018). Indie Dreams: Video Games, Creative Economy, and the Hyperindustrial Epoch. Games and Culture, 13(7), 671-689. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412018756708

© The Author(s) 2018. This essay draws on research undertaken as part of a research network project exploring the growth of independent game producers in recent years and the associated changes in the technological and economic conditions of the game... Read More about Indie Dreams: Video Games, Creative Economy, and the Hyperindustrial Epoch.

Relating to the speaker behind the voice: What is changing? (2018)
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Deamer, F., & Hayward, M. (2018). Relating to the speaker behind the voice: What is changing?. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00011

We introduce therapeutic techniques that encourage voice hearers to view their voices as coming from intentional agents whose behavior may be dependent on how the voice hearer relates to and interacts with them. We suggest that this approach is effec... Read More about Relating to the speaker behind the voice: What is changing?.

‘Round-head knaves’: The Ballad of Wrexham and the subversive political culture of Interregnum north-east Wales (2018)
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Ward Clavier, S. (2018). ‘Round-head knaves’: The Ballad of Wrexham and the subversive political culture of Interregnum north-east Wales. Historical Research, 91(251), 39-60. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12195

© 2017 Institute of Historical Research. This article broadens ballad studies to encompass a regional perspective and significantly adds to the literature on Welsh royalism. It argues that the ballad author sought to destabilize the newly established... Read More about ‘Round-head knaves’: The Ballad of Wrexham and the subversive political culture of Interregnum north-east Wales.

Two lost place-names in the west Midlands: Gaia in Lichfield and The Gay in Shrewsbury (2018)
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Coates, R. (2018). Two lost place-names in the west Midlands: Gaia in Lichfield and The Gay in Shrewsbury

The purpose of this article is to note the existence of two, or probably three, related unexplained names, to present possible further examples of the element involved, and to review how far it is possible to explain them.

The European producer: Simon Perry (2018)
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Spicer, A. (2018). The European producer: Simon Perry. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 15(4), 589-608. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2018.0444

This is the first detailed interview with Simon Perry, an important independent producer and who was CEO of British Screen from 1991-2000 during which he help to support a range of British films that would otherwise not have been produced. Perry was... Read More about The European producer: Simon Perry.

The meaning of names: A response in defence of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) addressed to Van Langendonck, Anderson, Colman and McClure (2017)
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Coates, R. (2017). The meaning of names: A response in defence of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) addressed to Van Langendonck, Anderson, Colman and McClure. https://doi.org/10.34158/ONOMA.52/2017/1

In a number of interrelated articles, I have presented some ideas about the nature of proper names, and specifically about their meaning. A central concept of these papers has been subjected to criticism, I believe inappropriately, by several scholar... Read More about The meaning of names: A response in defence of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) addressed to Van Langendonck, Anderson, Colman and McClure.

Ethnographic chats: A best of both method for ethnography (2017)
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Selleck, C. L. (2017). Ethnographic chats: A best of both method for ethnography. Sky Journal of Linguistics, 30, 151-162

Conventionally, ethnographic methods in sociolinguistics aim to discover how language works as “situated social practice and how it is tied to social organisation” (Heller 2011: 10). Within this, ethnography has viewed participant observation as cent... Read More about Ethnographic chats: A best of both method for ethnography.

Welsh Lloegr 'England' (2017)
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Coates, R. (2017). Welsh Lloegr 'England'. Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 74, 41-45

A new etymology is proposed for this controversial name, suggesting a Germanic origin.

Self, consciousness and agency in the egoist (2017)
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Davis, M. (2017). Self, consciousness and agency in the egoist. Journal of Victorian Culture, 22(4), 536-552. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2017.1318298

© 2017 Leeds Trinity University. This article re-reads representations of the self and agency in George Meredith’s The Egoist (1879) by drawing new connections between the novel and Victorian psychological theory. Critical discussions of The Egoist a... Read More about Self, consciousness and agency in the egoist.