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Family names of the United Kingdom: A new research project in British anthroponomastics (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Hanks, P., McClure, P., & Coates, R. (2011, September). Family names of the United Kingdom: A new research project in British anthroponomastics. Presented at 24th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain

We present a major new research project in surname studies in Britain. The project is called Family Names of the United Kingdom (abbreviated to FaNUK). It is a 4-year project based at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics in the University of the West o... Read More about Family names of the United Kingdom: A new research project in British anthroponomastics.

A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective (2011)
Thesis
Karatsareas, P. A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective. (Thesis). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/959405

In this dissertation, I investigate a number of interrelated developments affecting the morphosyntax of nouns in Cappadocian Greek. I specifically focus on the development of differential object marking, the loss of grammatical gender distinctions, a... Read More about A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective.

Projection hero installation (2011)
Physical Artefact
Crofts, C. Projection hero installation

The Projection Hero installation operates as part of the Curzon Memories App or a stand alone exhibit. It comprises of a rabbit hutch-sized miniature cinema, with velvet and gold brocade curtains and hand-carved seats which can be operated via your... Read More about Projection hero installation.

Dramatic monologue, detective fiction and the search for meaning (2011)
Journal Article
Martens, B. (2011). Dramatic monologue, detective fiction and the search for meaning. Nineteenth-Century Literature, 66(2), 195-218

This essay compares the genres of the dramatic monologue and detective fiction in terms of their contemporaneous development and respective reading processes. Drawing on narratological categories, it examines the emphasis in both genres on the withho... Read More about Dramatic monologue, detective fiction and the search for meaning.

Film noir and Los Angeles (2011)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. H. (2011). Film noir and Los Angeles. In G. Solomons (Ed.), World Film Locations: Los Angeles. Bristol: Intellect

An overview of the different ways in which Los Angeles has been represented in film noir and neo-noir, so films from the 1940s to the present, from Double Indemnity (1944) to Collateral (2004). The essay explores the particular relationship between L... Read More about Film noir and Los Angeles.

Decision-making and contested heritage in Northern Ireland: The former maze prison/long kesh (2011)
Journal Article
Flynn, M. K. (2011). Decision-making and contested heritage in Northern Ireland: The former maze prison/long kesh. Irish Political Studies, 26(3), 383-401. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2011.593741

The former Maze Prison/Long Kesh in Lisburn, near Belfast, is one of the primary sites associated with the 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland. Controversy about the site's future makes it clear that the redevelopment of contested heritage cannot be d... Read More about Decision-making and contested heritage in Northern Ireland: The former maze prison/long kesh.

Contemporary arguments for a geometry of visual experience (2011)
Journal Article
Meadows, P. J. (2011). Contemporary arguments for a geometry of visual experience. European Journal of Philosophy, 19(3), 408-430. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2009.00387.x

In this paper I consider recent attempts to establish that the geometry of visual experience is a spherical geometry. These attempts, offered by Gideon Yaffe, James van Cleve and Gordon Belot, follow Thomas Reid in arguing for an equivalency of a geo... Read More about Contemporary arguments for a geometry of visual experience.

'So what problems bother you and you are not speeding up your work?' problem solving talk at work (2011)
Journal Article
Angouri, J., & Bargiela-Chiappini, F. (2011). 'So what problems bother you and you are not speeding up your work?' problem solving talk at work. Discourse and Communication, 5(3), 209-229. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481311405589

Problem solving (PbS) can be readily described as one of the key activities regularly performed by professionals in any workplace setting. Despite its importance, however, there is relatively little (socio)linguistic research which looks at the compl... Read More about 'So what problems bother you and you are not speeding up your work?' problem solving talk at work.

Class, control and clones (panel discussion) (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2011, August). Class, control and clones (panel discussion). Presented at Class, Control and Clones’, Out of this World exhibition, British Library, London, UK

Parish history of Kelmscott (2011)
Book Chapter
Bainbridge, V., & Towney, S. (2011). Parish history of Kelmscott. In S. Towney (Ed.), A History of the County of Oxford. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer

Mind the gap: the impertinent predicates (and subjects) of King Rat and Looking for Jake and other stories (2011)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2011). Mind the gap: the impertinent predicates (and subjects) of King Rat and Looking for Jake and other stories. Extrapolation, 50(2), 307-325. https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2009.50.2.10

A critical account of China Miéville’s King Rat and the stories in Looking for Jake, which considers contemporary attempts to anatomise the fantastic and draws on the theorisations of metaphor to open up a new approach to fantastic texts.

Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App (2011)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C. (2011). Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App. In D. Stuart, B. Jonathan P., & N. Kia (Eds.), Proceedings of EVA London 2011: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (163-170). London: BCS: The Chartered Institute for IT

This paper presents a practice research project based at The Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, UK. Working closely with the cinema to develop a locative or context-aware heritage application for the iPhone, the project aims to enhance the Curzon’s... Read More about Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App.