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To what extent do children’s expressions of time actually refer to time? An investigation into the temporal and discursive usages of temporal adverbs in family interaction (2024)
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Surakka, M., & Kirjavainen, M. (in press). To what extent do children’s expressions of time actually refer to time? An investigation into the temporal and discursive usages of temporal adverbs in family interaction. Journal of Child Language, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000924000114

Many studies have explored children’s acquisition of temporal adverbs. However, the extent to which children’s early temporal language has discursive instead of solely temporal meanings has been largely ignored. We report two corpus-based studies tha... Read More about To what extent do children’s expressions of time actually refer to time? An investigation into the temporal and discursive usages of temporal adverbs in family interaction.

There’s more to life than the monomyth: multiperspectival approaches to teaching narrative and story in university film and media departments (2024)
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Aston, J. (in press). There’s more to life than the monomyth: multiperspectival approaches to teaching narrative and story in university film and media departments. Media Practice and Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2024.2331342

This article critiques the ongoing dominance of the Hollywood monomyth in the film and television industry, at least in the UK if not more widely. It considers how this is impacting on the teaching of narrative and story in university film and media... Read More about There’s more to life than the monomyth: multiperspectival approaches to teaching narrative and story in university film and media departments.

Building and sustaining freelance careers in a small nation: The case of Cardiff’s film and television industries (2024)
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Genders, A. (in press). Building and sustaining freelance careers in a small nation: The case of Cardiff’s film and television industries. International Journal of Cultural Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2024.2317332

Often characterised as an occupational group of highly skilled, responsive, resilient and creative individuals, freelancers make a vital contribution to the strength and sustainability of film and television production. Freelancers are both intrinsic... Read More about Building and sustaining freelance careers in a small nation: The case of Cardiff’s film and television industries.

More than a meeting: Performing the workshop in the art institution (2023)
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Cranfield, B., & Mulvey, M. (2023). More than a meeting: Performing the workshop in the art institution. Performance Research, 28(2), 4-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2023.2260685

The workshop has become a ubiquitous cultural form within art institutions, used by curators, artists and pedagogues to create opportunities for audiences to do everything from acquiring creative skills to enacting social change. Yet, despite its gro... Read More about More than a meeting: Performing the workshop in the art institution.

From the execution ballad to the dramatic monologue: Criminal confession reconfigured (2023)
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Martens, B. (in press). From the execution ballad to the dramatic monologue: Criminal confession reconfigured. Victorian Poetry, 62(1),

Victorian dramatic monologues about murder, including such prominent examples as Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover,” “My Last Duchess,” and The Ring and the Book, as well as Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “A Last Confession,” often rely upon readers’ fa... Read More about From the execution ballad to the dramatic monologue: Criminal confession reconfigured.

Family ties (2023)
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Bodman, S. (2023). Family ties. Printmaking Today, 32(128), 22-23

Family Ties - Artist Terrie Reddish explains to Sarah Bodman how book artists in New Zealand are building creative connections and book arts’ networks

The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians (2023)
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Sarfo-Kantankah, K. S., Ngula, R. S., & Nartey, M. (2024). The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians. Journal of Language and Politics, 23(1), 91-112. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22146.sar

Research on issues of women has largely focused attention on, among others, power asymmetries and gender stereotypes, with less emphasis on positive linguistic mechanisms of women. Drawing on a critical discourse analytical approach and using Ghanaia... Read More about The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians.

Loss and survival: The Episcopalian spiritual vocation, 1646-62 (2023)
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Ward Clavier, S. (2023). Loss and survival: The Episcopalian spiritual vocation, 1646-62. Seventeenth Century, 38(6), 1025-1034. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2023.2266301

This article outlines a forthcoming project on the episcopalian spiritual vocation in the period c.1640 to 1662. It explains the rationale for the project and its place within the historiography. The article argues that seventeenth-century clergy may... Read More about Loss and survival: The Episcopalian spiritual vocation, 1646-62.

Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South (2023)
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Nartey, M. (2024). Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South. Journal of Language and Politics, 23(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22143.nar

This Special Issue expands on the ongoing dialogue on the decolonial project by bringing together thought-provoking papers that examine the communication of female political leaders in the Global South. It draws on data from West Africa, Latin Americ... Read More about Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South.

The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados' prime minister Mia Mottley (2023)
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Nartey, M. (2024). The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados' prime minister Mia Mottley. Journal of Language and Politics, 23(1), 45-66. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22145.nar

Informed by a critical discourse analytical approach to agency, this paper examines the construction of agency in the speeches of Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados. The analysis reveals that she enacts her agency in three main ways: (1) con... Read More about The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados' prime minister Mia Mottley.

Digital storytelling: A relational pedagogic approach to rebuilding hybrid places for creativity, equity and community building in a crisis (2023)
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Parker Moon, Z., Palmerini, P., Drayton, J., Noon, R., Gibson, K., Gold, L., & Ochu, E. (2023). Digital storytelling: A relational pedagogic approach to rebuilding hybrid places for creativity, equity and community building in a crisis. Advances in Online Education: A Peer-Reviewed Journal, 2(1), 1-18

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted human flourishing worldwide as in-person teaching and learning provision within universities and schools rapidly shifted online. This exposed challenges as staff and students worked from home. Digital competences in onl... Read More about Digital storytelling: A relational pedagogic approach to rebuilding hybrid places for creativity, equity and community building in a crisis.

A critical discourse analysis of resistance to climate change in China’s English-language news media (2023)
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Yu, Y., Nartey, M., & Chen, J. (in press). A critical discourse analysis of resistance to climate change in China’s English-language news media. Asian Studies Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2023.2272295

Climate change has become a global issue, but no study has examined the discursive construction of resistance to climate change as part of crisis response in the media. To fill this gap, this study employs Wodak’s discourse-historical approach to exa... Read More about A critical discourse analysis of resistance to climate change in China’s English-language news media.

Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants (2023)
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Trujillo-Vazquez, A., Abedini, F., Pranovich, A., Parraman, C., & Klein, S. (2023). Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants. Colorants, 2(4), 632-653. https://doi.org/10.3390/colorants2040033

Two of the most significant cases of extant 16th-century featherwork from Mexico are the so-called Moctezuma’s headdress and the Ahuizotl shield. While the feathers used in these artworks exhibit lightfast colors, their assembly comprises mainly orga... Read More about Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants.

Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: Results of a structured expert elicitation (2023)
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Jones, A., Bridle, S., Denby, K., Bhunnoo, R., Morton, D., Stanbrough, L., …Whiteside, K. (2023). Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: Results of a structured expert elicitation. Sustainability, 15(20), Article 14783. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152014783

We report the results of a structured expert elicitation to identify the most likely types of potential food system disruption scenarios for the UK, focusing on routes to civil unrest. We take a backcasting approach by defining as an end-point a soci... Read More about Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: Results of a structured expert elicitation.

“Can I have a look?”: The discursive management of victims’ personal space during police first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents (2023)
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Steel, K. (2024). “Can I have a look?”: The discursive management of victims’ personal space during police first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 37(2), 547-572. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-023-10050-x

The complexities of domestic abuse as both a lived experience and a crime generate unique communicative challenges at the scene of emergency police call-outs. Space is a prominent and complex feature of these ecounters, entailing a juxtaposition of t... Read More about “Can I have a look?”: The discursive management of victims’ personal space during police first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents.

The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF (2023)
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Bould, M. (2023). The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF. Science Fiction Film and Television, 16(3), 251–275. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2023.15

If the Anthropocene is the unconscious of the art, literature, and media of our time, then sf films that are not overtly about climate change will nonetheless express Anthropocenic concerns. In Marjorie Prime (2017), an intense inward focus on the do... Read More about The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF.

Optimization and prediction of different building forms for thermal energy performance in the hot climate of Cairo using genetic algorithm and machine learning (2023)
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Khalil, A., Lila, A. M. H., & Ashraf, N. (2023). Optimization and prediction of different building forms for thermal energy performance in the hot climate of Cairo using genetic algorithm and machine learning. Computation, 11(10), Article 192. https://doi.org/10.3390/computation11100192

The climate change crisis has resulted in the need to use sustainable methods in architectural design, including building form and orientation decisions that can save a significant amount of energy consumed by a building. Several previous studies hav... Read More about Optimization and prediction of different building forms for thermal energy performance in the hot climate of Cairo using genetic algorithm and machine learning.

Twisting clay - Creative research to explore the complex rheology in ceramic extrusion (2023)
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Jorgensen, T., & Lightfoot, S. (2023). Twisting clay - Creative research to explore the complex rheology in ceramic extrusion. FORMakademisk, 16(4), https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.5423

This paper details practice-based research exploring new creative possibilities involving the ceramic extrusion process. The paper begins by providing a short overview of the extrusion technique, its charac-teristics and some contextual coverage of t... Read More about Twisting clay - Creative research to explore the complex rheology in ceramic extrusion.

Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order (2023)
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Richards, M. (2023). Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order. English Historical Review, 138(594-595), 1337-1362. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead151

This article analyses the conditions and ideas motivating cross-border connectivity among young Roman Catholic intellectuals during the trans-war era of the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Pax Romana, the Swiss-based international association of Catholi... Read More about Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order.