All Outputs (141)
Bronte's Jane Eyre (2010)
Book
Where to for the radical right in the European parliament? the rise and fall of transnational political cooperation (2010)
Journal Article
Amidst all the academic and media discussion in recent years of the causes and consequences of the rise in support for Radical Right parties (RRPs) in Europe, a related, but equally significant development, has generated less debate; namely the rise... Read More about Where to for the radical right in the European parliament? the rise and fall of transnational political cooperation.
Conspicuous consumption: The spectacle of widescreen comedy in the Populuxe era (2010)
Book Chapter
A sunken dream: music and the gendering of nostalgia in Life on Mars (2010)
Book Chapter
Corporate meetings as genre: A study of the role of the chair in corporate meeting talk (2010)
Journal Article
Meetings are the backbone of organizational life and as such constitute an important component of workplace discourse. We expand here upon earlier work which suggests that a meeting constitutes a distinct genre, taking informal rather than formal mee... Read More about Corporate meetings as genre: A study of the role of the chair in corporate meeting talk.
The politics of humanitarian intervention: A critical analogy of the British response to end the slave trade and the civil war in Sierra Leone (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A leading scholar of humanitarian intervention, Brown (2002) refers to British internal politics to satisfy the influential church and other non-conformist libertarian community leaders, and above all 'undermining Britain's competitors, such as Spain... Read More about The politics of humanitarian intervention: A critical analogy of the British response to end the slave trade and the civil war in Sierra Leone.
Behind the scenes of cognitive experimental SLA research (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sites and sights of war: Dramatizing global conflict (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simulation, history and experience in Oshii’s Avalon and military-entertainment technoculture (2010)
Journal Article
This essay takes Mamoru Oshii’s Avalon (2001) as a starting point for consideration of the impact of simulational interactive media on contemporary technoculture. The connections made in the film between virtual reality games and military research an... Read More about Simulation, history and experience in Oshii’s Avalon and military-entertainment technoculture.
The landed Elite, 1300-1500 (2010)
Book Chapter
Semantic change: Evidence from false friends (2010)
Journal Article
Functional linguists are in general agreement that semantic change may be triggered as part of the negotiation of meaning in interactional contexts: a 'one-off' contextual implicature generalises to become a new core meaning of a lexical item (Traugo... Read More about Semantic change: Evidence from false friends.
The Caribbean diaspora home mode in the first person documentary (2010)
Journal Article
Keeping 'the Old Flag flying': The British community in Morocco and the British Morocco Merchants Association, 1914-24 (2010)
Journal Article
This article examines the British expatriate community in Morocco and specifically in Tangier at a formative time in the country's history. Growing French ascendancy in Morocco and the strains imposed by war exposed weaknesses in British prospects in... Read More about Keeping 'the Old Flag flying': The British community in Morocco and the British Morocco Merchants Association, 1914-24.
The socialist alternative to Bolshevik Russia: The socialist revolutionary party, 1921-39 (2010)
Book
The Socialist Revolutionary party, which had been the largest and most popular party in Russia in 1917, did not after the October Revolution just disappear into the "dustbin of history", as Trotsky hoped, but – led by its leadership in exile in the 1... Read More about The socialist alternative to Bolshevik Russia: The socialist revolutionary party, 1921-39.
Bromesberrow (2010)
Book Chapter
Apes and alcoholics, duplicates and dreams: Enrolling film noir (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Primary elections for Britain (2010)
Journal Article
The coalition's programme for government promises to fund 200 open postal primaries during the current Parliament, targeted at seats which have not changed hands for many years. The lessons from the two open postal primaries used in 2009 are that the... Read More about Primary elections for Britain.