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Metaphors of Brexit: No cherries on the cake? (2019)
Book
Charteris-Black, J. (2019). Metaphors of Brexit: No cherries on the cake?. (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28768-9

How were social media posts, scripted speeches, traditional news media and political cartoons used and understood during the Brexit campaign? What phrases and metaphors were key during and after the 2016 Brexit referendum? How far did the Remain and... Read More about Metaphors of Brexit: No cherries on the cake?.

Your City's Place-Names: Cambridge (2019)
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Coates, R. (2019). Your City's Place-Names: Cambridge. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society

The fourth in a new series of books from the English Place-Name Society focusing on English cities rather than counties. Interpretations published earlier (1943) by P. H. Reaney have been extensively reassessed and critiqued, and new material added.

The Discursive Construction of Blame: The Language of Public Inquiries (2019)
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Murphy, J. (2019). The Discursive Construction of Blame: The Language of Public Inquiries. Basingstoke: Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50722-8

This book examines the language of public inquiries to reveal how blame is assigned, avoided, negotiated and discussed in this quasi-legal setting. In doing so, the author adds a much-needed linguistic perspective to the study of blame – previously t... Read More about The Discursive Construction of Blame: The Language of Public Inquiries.