All Outputs (60)

Daniel Wiechmann: Understanding relative clauses: A usage-based view on the processing of complex constructions (2016)
Journal Article

A book review

Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter (2016)
Book

Strange Worlds celebrates the life and work of the hugely influential writer Angela Carter (1940–1992), 25 years after her death, and accompanies a major exhibition of the same name at the RWA (Royal West of England Academy), Bristol. Bringing togeth... Read More about Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter.

Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses (2016)
Journal Article

This paper discusses apologies made by politicians at a recent UK public inquiry, The Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press. I use the freely available data from the Inquiry to explore how politicians apologise in this i... Read More about Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses.

Emerson's "Apposite Metaphors" and the grounds of creativity (2016)
Journal Article

This article offers an original interpretation of Emerson's theory of metaphor as a principle of creation as it appears in his lectures and journal of the 1820s and 1830s, the essay 'Nature' (1836), and as it develops into his theory of symbolism in... Read More about Emerson's "Apposite Metaphors" and the grounds of creativity.

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (2016)
Book

Cultural Policy Innovation and the Creative Economy: Creative collaborations in Arts and Humanities research (2016)
Book

This book develops important new insights into the conditions that enable effective collaborations between arts and humanities researchers and SMEs in the creative economy. Drawing on the work of Creativeworks London, an AHRC-funded Knowledge Exchang... Read More about Cultural Policy Innovation and the Creative Economy: Creative collaborations in Arts and Humanities research.

Women in Bristol, 1373-1660 (2016)
Book Chapter

A discussion of the evidence for the lives of women in later medieval and early-modern Bristol, with specific reference to what can be learned from this of their interaction with men and their ability to influence the life of the town/city.

The performance of the print (2016)
Thesis

The physical presence of contemporary photographs – whether as magazine, hoarding, wet chemistry, museum displays, inkjet prints or on-screen displays – is subordinate to the content of the image. However, resurgence of interest in the autographic o... Read More about The performance of the print.

Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe and Authority (2016)
Book

This detailed study of fire metaphors provides a deep understanding of the purposeful work of metaphor in discourse. It analyses how and why fire metaphors are used in discourses of awe (mythology and religion) and authority (political speeches and m... Read More about Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe and Authority.

Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors (2016)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Cognitive Science published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Cognitive Science Society. An experimental study was conducted on children aged 2;6–3;0 and 3;6–4;0 investigating the priming effect of two WANT-constru... Read More about Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors.

An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the origins of United States literature (2016)
Book Chapter

Emerson has long been held to be the well-spring of American literary originality. In this chapter I outline Emerson's own ideas of originality, detailing in particular how they relate to his New England context and his reading of model English Renai... Read More about An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the origins of United States literature.

Race and biology (2016)
Book Chapter

The period 1880-1920 saw the emergence and then the qualified effacing of powerful discourses of racial essentialism and biological determinism: it was a period profoundly influenced, even mesmerized, by the authority of Darwinian science. This chapt... Read More about Race and biology.

How to Teach Entrepreneurship to Communication and Creative Industries Students (2016)
Book

This handbook has been written as a result of work undertaken in the "CreBiz - Business Development Laboratory Study Module for Creative Industries" project. The objective of creating the study module is to enhance the business knowledge of undergrad... Read More about How to Teach Entrepreneurship to Communication and Creative Industries Students.

A rediscovered life: A selective annotated edition of the letters of Caroline Elizabeth Norton, 1828-1877 (2016)
Thesis

This thesis is a selective and annotated edition of 168 of the 2127 extant letters by Caroline Elizabeth Norton currently known to be available in both the public and private domain, which have been collected and transcribed for the project. The sele... Read More about A rediscovered life: A selective annotated edition of the letters of Caroline Elizabeth Norton, 1828-1877.

Insights from contrastive linguistics: Translating 'sort of' into French (2016)
Book Chapter

Identifying the meanings and functions of pragmatic markers such as well, you know, I mean and sort of has posed a considerable challenge for linguists in semantics and pragmatics, particularly those interested in semantic change and pragmaticalisati... Read More about Insights from contrastive linguistics: Translating 'sort of' into French.

Restocking the British world: Empire migration and anglo-Canadian relations, 1919–30 (2016)
Journal Article

Throughout the 1920s Canadian politicians, immigration officials, eugenicists and political commentators talked about the need to ‘Canadianize’ all migrants who arrived in the dominion, including those from the mother country. This did not mean that... Read More about Restocking the British world: Empire migration and anglo-Canadian relations, 1919–30.

Re-negotiating ideologies of bilingualism on the margins of education (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This article reports on an ethnographic study carried out in three interrelated sites: two contrasting secondary schools and a Youth-Club (the principal focus of this article), in an area of southwest Wales. This article hi... Read More about Re-negotiating ideologies of bilingualism on the margins of education.

Painting the town red: the impact of Anglo-Soviet exchange on the visual arts in Britain in the 1930s (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. At its peak in the mid-1930s, the society for cultural relations with the Soviet Union (SCRs) could count among its membership some of the most influential creative practitioners working... Read More about Painting the town red: the impact of Anglo-Soviet exchange on the visual arts in Britain in the 1930s.

Gothic Appalachia (2016)
Book Chapter

This book examines ‘Southern Gothic’ - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do ‘Southern’ and ‘Gothic’ mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss, ‘... Read More about Gothic Appalachia.

The naturalist in the Garden of Eden: Science and colonial landscape in Jem Poster's Rifling Paradise (2006) (2016)
Journal Article

This essay seeks to supplement an established critical tradition that reads natural history in neo-Victorian fiction from a postmodern and largely de-politicised perspective. I argue that the figure of the naturalist can be used to revisit natural hi... Read More about The naturalist in the Garden of Eden: Science and colonial landscape in Jem Poster's Rifling Paradise (2006).