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Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries (2021)
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Matthews, P., & Glitre, K. (2021). Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(12), 1511-1527. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24525

Genre plays an important role in the description, navigation, and discovery of movies, but it is rarely studied at large scale using quantitative methods. This allows an analysis of how genre labels are applied, how genres are composed and how these... Read More about Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries.

Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um (2021)
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Kirjavainen, M., Crible, L., & Beeching, K. (2022). Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um. Language and Speech, 65(2), 263-289. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309211011201

The current paper presents three studies that investigated the effect of exposure on the mental representations of filled pauses (um/uh). In Study 1, a corpus analysis identified the frequency of co-occurrence of filled pauses with words located imme... Read More about Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um.

Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show (2021)
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Eagle, R., Lander, R., & Hall, P. D. (2021). Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show. Cognitive Computation and Systems, 3(2), 91-99. https://doi.org/10.1049/ccs2.12018

I am Echoborg is promoted as ‘a show created afresh each time by the audience in conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI)’. The show demonstrates how AI in a creative and performance context can raise questions about the technology’s ethical... Read More about Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show.

Sir Arthur Hirtzel and the Pax Britannica in the Middle East (2021)
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Fisher, J. (2021). Sir Arthur Hirtzel and the Pax Britannica in the Middle East. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 32(2), 263-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2021.1913356

Sir Arthur Hirtzel, the long-serving senior official in the India Office was an old–and a much respected–Middle Eastern hand. Few in Whitehall could rival him in his capacity ‘to get into the mind of the man at the other end of the line.’ Surprisingl... Read More about Sir Arthur Hirtzel and the Pax Britannica in the Middle East.

Yvonne Nelson and the heroic myth of Yaa Asantewaa: a discourse-mythological case study of a Ghanaian celebrity (2021)
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Nartey, M. (2021). Yvonne Nelson and the heroic myth of Yaa Asantewaa: a discourse-mythological case study of a Ghanaian celebrity. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 38(3), 255-268. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2021.1907429

This article details a study of mythological storytelling in the Ghanaian media. It analyzes a number of news articles about a Ghanaian celebrity, Yvonne Nelson, in the wake of leading a protest to pressure the government to find a lasting solution t... Read More about Yvonne Nelson and the heroic myth of Yaa Asantewaa: a discourse-mythological case study of a Ghanaian celebrity.

Irish literature in transition: 1980–2020: Edited by Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds (2021)
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Harrison, L. (2021). Irish literature in transition: 1980–2020: Edited by Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds. Irish Studies Review, 29(2), 280-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2021.1911027

Irish Literature in Transition 1980–2020, edited by Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds, is the final volume in a series of six, which begin with the year 1700 and conclude in 2020. The series is a monumental feat of scholarship overseen by the general edi... Read More about Irish literature in transition: 1980–2020: Edited by Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds.

Adapting wives and daughters for television: Reimagining women, travel, natural science, and race (2021)
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Ballinger, G. (2022). Adapting wives and daughters for television: Reimagining women, travel, natural science, and race. Adaptation, 15(1), 84-99. https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apab005

This essay examines the depiction of women, travel, natural science, and race in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (1864-66) and Andrew Davies's BBC adaptation of the novel (1999). It argues that the adaptation offers a recognizable transpositi... Read More about Adapting wives and daughters for television: Reimagining women, travel, natural science, and race.

Unpiecing the jigsaw: Compulsive heterosexuality, sex crime, class and masculinity in early 1960s British cinema (2021)
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Tincknell, E. (2021). Unpiecing the jigsaw: Compulsive heterosexuality, sex crime, class and masculinity in early 1960s British cinema. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 18(2), 131-151. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0563

This article explores the discursive intersections of masculinity, class and heterosexual desire in the still undervalued British police procedural film, Jigsaw. It considers the film both as an example of a new style of cinematic crime narrative and... Read More about Unpiecing the jigsaw: Compulsive heterosexuality, sex crime, class and masculinity in early 1960s British cinema.

A gilded cage? Nnamdi Azikiwe's Pan-Africanism as governor-general of Nigeria, 1960–63 (2021)
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Reeves, M. (2021). A gilded cage? Nnamdi Azikiwe's Pan-Africanism as governor-general of Nigeria, 1960–63. Journal of West African History, 7(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.14321/jwestafrihist.7.1.0001

Historians have wrongly ignored the period when Nnamdi Azikiwe served as governor-general of Nigeria, just after its independence (1960-63). Archival materials in Britain, the United States, and Azikiwe’s own papers in Nigeria reveal that he played a... Read More about A gilded cage? Nnamdi Azikiwe's Pan-Africanism as governor-general of Nigeria, 1960–63.

Constructing undesirables: A critical discourse analysis of othering of Fulani nomads in the Ghanaian news media (2021)
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Nartey, M., & Ladegaard, H. J. (2021). Constructing undesirables: A critical discourse analysis of othering of Fulani nomads in the Ghanaian news media. Discourse and Communication, 15(2), 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481320982095

The activities of Fulani nomads in Ghana have gained considerable media attention and engendered continuing public debate. In this paper, we analyze the prejudiced portrayals of the nomads in the Ghanaian news media, and how these contribute to an ex... Read More about Constructing undesirables: A critical discourse analysis of othering of Fulani nomads in the Ghanaian news media.

Navigating the doctorate: A reflection on the journey of ‘becoming’ a PhD in applied language sciences (2021)
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Nartey, M. (2021). Navigating the doctorate: A reflection on the journey of ‘becoming’ a PhD in applied language sciences. Cogent Education, 8(1), Article 1994360. https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2021.1994360

In the last two decades, academic reflections on the PhD experience and studies on various aspects of doctoral research education have attracted scholarly attention in the higher education and advanced academic literacy literature. In this article, I... Read More about Navigating the doctorate: A reflection on the journey of ‘becoming’ a PhD in applied language sciences.

3 Public objects of remembering and forgetting in contemporary Spain (2020)
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Richards, M. (2020). 3 Public objects of remembering and forgetting in contemporary Spain. Patterns of Prejudice, 54(5), 493-501. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2021.1950317

Richards’s article is a reflection on comparative history inspired by the pulling down of the statue of the slave-trader Edward Colston in Bristol in June 2020. It explores the evolution in Spain of state policies and civil society activism to do wit... Read More about 3 Public objects of remembering and forgetting in contemporary Spain.

‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home (2020)
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Green, D. P., Rose, M., Bevan, C., Farmer, H., Cater, K., & Stanton Fraser, D. (2021). ‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home. Convergence, 27(3), 805-829. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856520979966

Consumer virtual reality (VR) headsets (e.g. Oculus Go) have brought VR non-fiction (VRNF) within reach of at-home audiences. However, despite increase in VR hardware sales and enthusiasm for the platform among niche audiences at festivals, mainstrea... Read More about ‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home.

What is entrepreneurship? How entrepreneurship education may influence creative writing and how creative writing may change approaches to entrepreneurship in the university setting (2020)
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Anthony, D. (2020). What is entrepreneurship? How entrepreneurship education may influence creative writing and how creative writing may change approaches to entrepreneurship in the university setting. Writing in Education, 82, 39-46

Entrepreneurship education is a growing part of all universities’ portfolio of subjects. As well as developing as a specialism which can be studied in isolation, all academic disciplines are being encouraged to include entrepreneurial ideas in their... Read More about What is entrepreneurship? How entrepreneurship education may influence creative writing and how creative writing may change approaches to entrepreneurship in the university setting.

A critical metaphor analysis of heroic myth in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah (2020)
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Nartey, M. (2020). A critical metaphor analysis of heroic myth in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, 12(1), 37-53

This paper examines how Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-African leader, utilizes metaphor to simultaneously construct heroes and villains, protagonists and antagonists, forming part of an ideological mechanism that portrays him as a valiant leader an... Read More about A critical metaphor analysis of heroic myth in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah.

A feminist critical discourse analysis of Ghanaian feminist blogs (2020)
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Nartey, M. (2021). A feminist critical discourse analysis of Ghanaian feminist blogs. Feminist Media Studies, 21(4), 657-672. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1837910

Even though one of the aims of critical discourse analysis (CDA) is to demonstrate how social inequality, power abuse and discriminatory practices can be resisted, most studies have centered on the deconstruction of oppression and ideologically drive... Read More about A feminist critical discourse analysis of Ghanaian feminist blogs.

Mythological heroism in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah (2020)
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Nartey, M., & Bhatia, A. (2020). Mythological heroism in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah. World Englishes, 39(4), 581-593. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12499

This paper critically explores how an African independence leader uses his language to simultaneously construct heroes and villains, protagonists and antagonists forming part of an ideological mechanism that realizes an anti-imperialist rhetoric and... Read More about Mythological heroism in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah.