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'I am well, apart from the fact that I have cancer’: Explaining wellbeing within illness (2009)
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Despite the near-universal nature of illness, not enough philosophical work has been done to explore the effects of ill health on human wellbeing. Other disciplines such as nursing, healthcare sciences and sociology of health, have examined the relat... Read More about 'I am well, apart from the fact that I have cancer’: Explaining wellbeing within illness.

Metaphor and political communication (2009)
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Code-switching and transfer: An exploration of similarities and differences (2009)
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This chapter contributes to our understanding of the ways in which code-switching (the use of more than one language in discourse) differs from transfer (the influence of one language on another). There is considerable confusion about the terminology... Read More about Code-switching and transfer: An exploration of similarities and differences.

Thomas Hardy’s notebooks (2009)
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The mainstreaming of masturbation (2009)
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This chapter considers the way masturbation has entered mainstream culture, is promoted in self-help literature and magazines, is newly visible in film and on tv, and is foregrounded in the mediated sex offered by pornography, phone and cybersex. The... Read More about The mainstreaming of masturbation.

Woodworm cricket bats: Tellings and re-tellings of an enchantment foundation narrative (2009)
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Procatalepsis and the etymology of hedging and boosting particles (2009)
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This chapter breaks new ground by highlighting the role of concession in semantic change, drawing examples cross-linguistically from English, French and German. It contributes to theories of semantic change which support cognitive and social-interact... Read More about Procatalepsis and the etymology of hedging and boosting particles.

Sociolinguistic factors and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken French (2009)
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The multifunctional nature of discourse-marking bon (well) is well-attested in the literature (Auchlin, 1981; Winther, 1985, Hansen, 1998a and b, Jayez, 2004). Its adverbial and interjective uses can, according to Hansen (1998a), be related to its ca... Read More about Sociolinguistic factors and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken French.

The black presence in a slaving port: Bristol 1688-1835 (2009)
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Familjeansvar bland ensamstäende. Paradoxer i 1900-talets brittiska socialpolitik (2009)
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"All Things Think". Panpsychism and the Metaphysics of Nature (2009)
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This essay explores the problem od the implausibility of the emergence of consciousness from a non-conscious nature from the perspective of a powers ontology, arguing that since the matter constituting all the elements of the universe is homogeneous,... Read More about "All Things Think". Panpsychism and the Metaphysics of Nature.

Political intermediaries, political engagement and the politics of everyday life in urban Tudor England' (2009)
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Soft power and strategy: Developing a 'strategic' conception of power (2009)
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From drypoint to inkjet (2009)
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This conference paper was given at the Printed on Paper Conference, 5th-7th September 2007, The Sage Conference Centre, Gateshead, UK. It presents research in collaboration with the Prints and Drawings Department at Tate Britain London. The databas... Read More about From drypoint to inkjet.

Co-creative design (2009)
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This paper is concerned with the need to understand creativity both as a general feature of cultural change (associated with the processes of cultural promiscuity and hybridisation), and as a form of cultural capital used in strategies of social dist... Read More about Co-creative design.

Not precedents to be followed but examples to be weighed: John Thelwall and the Jacobin sense of the past (2009)
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Essay critically examining the historical writing and historiographical theory of the English radical Jacobin, John Thelwall (1764-1834), and contextualising it within English 18th century historical practice and methodology.

The character and reputation of an acquitted felon (2009)
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Introductory essay to edited collection on the life and work of John Thelwall (1764-1834).

Henry James and the ‘swelling act of the imperial theme’ (2009)
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The reproduction, conservation and creation of artwork through the Collotype Printing Process (2009)
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This paper will examine the work of one of the most accurate methods of printed image reproduction – the collotype. The collotype process is one of the oldest of the photomechanical printing techniques and has been used since the 1880’s for the highl... Read More about The reproduction, conservation and creation of artwork through the Collotype Printing Process.

The history of native Americans and the misdirected study of organized crime (2009)
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