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Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British Sign Language users (2015)
Journal Article

This paper seeks to understand linguistic formality through the identification and measurement of contextual features. Using an adapted sociometric methodology to combine systemic functional linguistics and sign linguistics, a survey identifies the e... Read More about Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British Sign Language users.

Fifty years investigating institutional corruption and organized crime: an interview with Selwyn Raab (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with Selwyn Raab was conducted during 2014. It discusses Raab’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities from his experiences as a student journalist dur... Read More about Fifty years investigating institutional corruption and organized crime: an interview with Selwyn Raab.

The analysis and containment of organized crime in New York City and beyond: an interview with James B. Jacobs (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with James B. Jacobs was conducted during 2014. As a law student at University of Chicago in the early 1970s, Jacobs conducted a participant observation study at Stateville Penite... Read More about The analysis and containment of organized crime in New York City and beyond: an interview with James B. Jacobs.

The medium is the message? (2015)
Journal Article

Using the Bourdieusian lens of the signalling of distinction through choice of discourse, this paper examines discourses surrounding recent changes in the moving image, specifically the growth of digital technologies of capture, edit and display, and... Read More about The medium is the message?.

Don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it's gone? Skills-led qualifications, secondary school attainment and policy choices (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In the name of curriculum breadth and raising standards, recent government policy in England has removed a large number of non-academic qualifications from the list of those that secondary schools can count in league tables... Read More about Don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it's gone? Skills-led qualifications, secondary school attainment and policy choices.