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Language dominance and lexical diversity: How bilinguals and L2 learners differ in their knowledge and use of French lexical and functional items (2009)
Book Chapter
Treffers-Daller, J. (2009). Language dominance and lexical diversity: How bilinguals and L2 learners differ in their knowledge and use of French lexical and functional items. In B. Richards, H. Michael Daller, D. D. Malvern, P. Meara, J. Milton, & J. Treffers-Daller (Eds.), Vocabulary Studies in first and second language acquisition. The interface between theory and applications (74-90). Houndmills Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter makes an important contribution to our understanding of how the language abilities of bilinguals differ from those of second language learners. Few researchers have so far attempted to assess the knowledge bilinguals have of either langu... Read More about Language dominance and lexical diversity: How bilinguals and L2 learners differ in their knowledge and use of French lexical and functional items.

Women and Labour politics (2009)
Book Chapter
Hannam, J. (2009). Women and Labour politics. In M. Worley (Ed.), The Foundations of the British Labour Party: Identities, Cultures and Perspectives, 1900-39 (171-191). London: Ashgate

Locating Britian: Migration and shifting boundaries on TV news (2009)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2009). Locating Britian: Migration and shifting boundaries on TV news. In E. Castello, A. Dhoest, & H. O'Donnell (Eds.), The Nation on Screen (139-156). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Collective identities projected in the content of national television news can be less stable and coherent than is often suggested. Working within a tension between an inclusive and an exclusive national identity discourse, television news programmes... Read More about Locating Britian: Migration and shifting boundaries on TV news.

Introduction to Part One: The late nineteenth century interior (1870-1900) (2009)
Book Chapter
Ferry, E. (2009). Introduction to Part One: The late nineteenth century interior (1870-1900). In P. Sparke, A. Massey, T. Keeble, & B. Martin (Eds.), Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today (13-29). Oxford: Berg

An overview of the themes and published sources available for the study of the late-19th century interior and an introduction to three new essays within this book.

Online simulation of real life experiences – the educational potential (2009)
Book Chapter
Falconer, L., & Frutos-Perez, M. (2009). Online simulation of real life experiences – the educational potential. In C. Fulford, & G. Siemens (Eds.), EdMedia 2009 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (3564-3569). Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education

This paper outlines the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) strategy of the University of the West of England (UWE), UK, and demonstrates examples of simulations that use a mixture of web technologies, social networking and virtual worlds. In particul... Read More about Online simulation of real life experiences – the educational potential.

English proficiency and academic success: A study of Chinese students in UK Higher Education (2009)
Book Chapter
Daller, M. (2009). English proficiency and academic success: A study of Chinese students in UK Higher Education. In B. Richards, H. Michael Daller, D. D. Malvern, P. Meara, J. Milton, & J. Treffers-Daller (Eds.), Vocabulary Studies in first and second language acquisition. The interface between theory and applications (179-193). Houndmills Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Artists’ books: Visual Studies Workshop Press 1971 – 2008 (2009)
Book Chapter
Bodman, S. L. (2009). Artists’ books: Visual Studies Workshop Press 1971 – 2008. In J. Lyons (Ed.), Artists’ Books: Visual Studies Workshop Press 1971 – 2008 (27). Visual Studies Workshop Press

On her retirement from VSW Press, founder Joan Lyons assembled this selected bibliography of titles printed at VSW with commentary from the artists she worked with including Sarah Bodman.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's secret: An anti-feminist amongst women (2009)
Book Chapter
Mattacks, K. (2009). Mary Elizabeth Braddon's secret: An anti-feminist amongst women. In T. Wagner (Ed.), Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. Cambria Press

This reclaims the novelist M.E. Braddon from the claims that her popular brand of 1860s fiction was intended to promote the feminist cause. Rather, by examining archive and textual evidence, Braddon emerges as a complex conservative figure who was de... Read More about Mary Elizabeth Braddon's secret: An anti-feminist amongst women.

The subject as object: Photography and the human body (2009)
Book Chapter
Henning, M. (2009). The subject as object: Photography and the human body. In L. Wells (Ed.), Photography: A Critical Introduction. Routledge

This is a revised and updated version of my chapter for the fourth edition of this bestselling book. It includes new mention of issues such as biometric imaging and the representation of celebrities and women in fashion photography., some new example... Read More about The subject as object: Photography and the human body.

'I am well, apart from the fact that I have cancer’: Explaining wellbeing within illness (2009)
Book Chapter
Carel, H. (2009). 'I am well, apart from the fact that I have cancer’: Explaining wellbeing within illness. In L. Bortolloti (Ed.), Philosophy and Happiness (82-99). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2009). Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica. In W. J. Burling (Ed.), Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical essays (257-273). McFarland

Drawing together often antagonistic Marxist and ecological critical-theory, this essay sympathetically critiques Kim Stanley Robinson’s treatment of nature, while calling for a theory and praxis which acknowledges and embraces the non-human in tackli... Read More about Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica.

Critical realism in economics (2009)
Book Chapter
Fleetwood, S. (2009). Critical realism in economics. In D. Milonakis (Ed.), From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences. Routledge