All Outputs (140)

Book review: Thomas Foster, The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory (2010)
Journal Article

Harold and Maude (2010)
Book Chapter

I woke up early the day I died (2010)
Book Chapter

Killer of sheep (2010)
Book Chapter

Medium cool (2010)
Book Chapter

Poison (2010)
Book Chapter

Watermelon man (2010)
Book Chapter

Gender and the language of illness (2010)
Book

This book is based on interviews with people talking about their experiences of many different types of illness. Their use of language shows the influences of gender, social class and age and reveals conformity and resistance to gender stereotypes. W... Read More about Gender and the language of illness.

The Queen, aging femininity and the recuperation of the monarchy (2010)
Book Chapter

This article explores the role played by ‘aging femininity’ in the biopic, The Queen, in the recuperation of the monarchy from republican tendencies that followed from the death of Diana. The article traces how the film initially establishes a binary... Read More about The Queen, aging femininity and the recuperation of the monarchy.

'Bromesberrow' in A.R.J. Jurica (2010)
Book Chapter

Burh place-names in Anglo-Saxon England (2010)
Journal Article

The church of England and British policy towards the Assyrians, 1914-55 (2010)
Book Chapter

“The king has killed his heart”: the death of Falstaff in Henry V. (2010)
Journal Article

Even with the multitude of religious, political, social and gendered readings of the character, critics have invariably (and understandably) tended to focus most often on the events leading up to and including the rejection scene in 2 Henry IV, and... Read More about “The king has killed his heart”: the death of Falstaff in Henry V..

"Out of the way places": Exploring remoteness in Hardy's fiction (2010)
Journal Article

Provincial Fiction and the Decline of 'Puritan England' (2010)
Book Chapter

This chapter situates three major exponents of provincial fiction, Thomas Hardy, ‘Mark Rutherford’ and Arnold Bennett, in relation to ideas about provincialism, and changes in the relationship between the metropolitan centre and provincial and region... Read More about Provincial Fiction and the Decline of 'Puritan England'.

Reading matter and the matter of reading in Gissing’s fiction (2010)
Book Chapter

This chapter revisits George Gissing’s handling of reading practices within the realist frame of his practice as a novelist to show the variety of reality effects linked to reading matter and the reading subject – the choice of books, their location... Read More about Reading matter and the matter of reading in Gissing’s fiction.

Elliptical arguments (2010)
Book Chapter

Demonstrates that the meaning of a verb is often determined by an absent argument. For example, to treat people with respect denotes some kind of general behaviour, but to treat people (without a prepositional phrase or adverbial of manner) normally... Read More about Elliptical arguments.

Nine issues in metaphor theory and analysis (2010)
Journal Article

Starting as a review article discussing an important book on Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics, this article goes on to explore the distinctions between a) literal meaning and metaphor; b) conceptual metaphor and linguistic metaphor; c) creativity an... Read More about Nine issues in metaphor theory and analysis.

Web page (pilot study for a much larger project): Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs (PDEV) (2010)
Other

PDEV is the practical implementation of the Theory of Norms and Exploitations. It is intended as a basic resource for use by language learners, language teachers, translators, and computational linguists. The aim is to identify the patterns of nor... Read More about Web page (pilot study for a much larger project): Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs (PDEV).

Wie man aus Wörtern Bedeutungen macht: Semantische Typen treffen Valenzen (2010)
Book Chapter

Presents the Theory of Norms and Exploitations in German; discusses the relationship between valencies and lexical sets (collocations). This paper shows the importance of a lexically based approach to meaning analysis and a statistical approach to t... Read More about Wie man aus Wörtern Bedeutungen macht: Semantische Typen treffen Valenzen.