All Outputs (3)

'Language no obstacle': War brides in the German press, 1945-49 (2003)
Journal Article
Esser, R. (2003). 'Language no obstacle': War brides in the German press, 1945-49. Women's History Review, 12(4), 577-603. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020300200375

German war brides are an essential part in the cultural memory of post-war West Germany. This study sheds some light on the representation of war brides in German newspapers and magazines published in the American and British zones between 1945/46 an... Read More about 'Language no obstacle': War brides in the German press, 1945-49.

Show Your Real Face: A Fan Study of the UK Big Brother transmissions (2000, 2001, 2002). Investigating the boundaries between notions of consumers and producers of factual television (2003)
Journal Article
Jones, J. M. (2003). Show Your Real Face: A Fan Study of the UK Big Brother transmissions (2000, 2001, 2002). Investigating the boundaries between notions of consumers and producers of factual television. New Media and Society, 5(3), 400-421. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448030053006

This audience research was designed to interrogate the UK fans of Big Brother so as to present evidence that might shed light on the audience's understanding of the 'reality' in this form of reality television. Using quantitative and qualitative data... Read More about Show Your Real Face: A Fan Study of the UK Big Brother transmissions (2000, 2001, 2002). Investigating the boundaries between notions of consumers and producers of factual television.

Lexical Richness in the Spontaneous Speech of Bilinguals (2003)
Journal Article
Daller, H., Van Hout, R., & Treffers-D Aller, J. (2003). Lexical Richness in the Spontaneous Speech of Bilinguals. Applied Linguistics, 24(2), 197-222+267. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/24.2.197

The focus of the present paper is on the measurement of lexical richness. Lexical richness is often measured either by the traditional type-token ratio (TTR) or by its square root variant, the index of Guiraud. The disadvantages of these measures, es... Read More about Lexical Richness in the Spontaneous Speech of Bilinguals.