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Make grammar great again? (2021)
Journal Article
Hodgson, J., & Harris, A. (2021). Make grammar great again?. English in Education, 55(3), 208-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/04250494.2021.1943225

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)
Journal Article
Kirjavainen, M., Crible, L., & Beeching, K. (2022). Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um. Language and Speech, 65(2), 263-289. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309211011201

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)
Journal Article
Martens, B. (2021). British satirical poems and cartoons about Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte: Deconstructing authenticity and aura. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 43(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2021.1863109

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
Spicer, A. (2021). The impresario in British cinema: Bernard Delfont at EMI. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 18(1), 7-33. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0553

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.