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Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses (2016)
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Murphy, J. (2016). Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses. Pragmatics and Society, 7(4), 595-617

This paper discusses apologies made by politicians at a recent UK public inquiry, The Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press. I use the freely available data from the Inquiry to explore how politicians apologise in this i... Read More about Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses.

Emerson's "Apposite Metaphors" and the grounds of creativity (2016)
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Greenham, D. (2016). Emerson's "Apposite Metaphors" and the grounds of creativity. Anglo-Saxónica, III(12), 101-120

This article offers an original interpretation of Emerson's theory of metaphor as a principle of creation as it appears in his lectures and journal of the 1820s and 1830s, the essay 'Nature' (1836), and as it develops into his theory of symbolism in... Read More about Emerson's "Apposite Metaphors" and the grounds of creativity.

Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors (2016)
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Kirjavainen, M., Lieven, E. V. M., & Theakston, A. L. (2017). Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors. Cognitive Science, 41(5), 1242-1273. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12407

Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Cognitive Science published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Cognitive Science Society. An experimental study was conducted on children aged 2;6–3;0 and 3;6–4;0 investigating the priming effect of two WANT-constru... Read More about Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors.

Restocking the British world: Empire migration and anglo-Canadian relations, 1919–30 (2016)
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Fedorowich, K. (2016). Restocking the British world: Empire migration and anglo-Canadian relations, 1919–30. Britain and the World, 9(2), 236-269. https://doi.org/10.3366/brw.2016.0239

Throughout the 1920s Canadian politicians, immigration officials, eugenicists and political commentators talked about the need to ‘Canadianize’ all migrants who arrived in the dominion, including those from the mother country. This did not mean that... Read More about Restocking the British world: Empire migration and anglo-Canadian relations, 1919–30.

Re-negotiating ideologies of bilingualism on the margins of education (2016)
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Selleck, C. (2016). Re-negotiating ideologies of bilingualism on the margins of education. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 37(6), 551-563. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2015.1093494

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This article reports on an ethnographic study carried out in three interrelated sites: two contrasting secondary schools and a Youth-Club (the principal focus of this article), in an area of southwest Wales. This article hi... Read More about Re-negotiating ideologies of bilingualism on the margins of education.

Painting the town red: the impact of Anglo-Soviet exchange on the visual arts in Britain in the 1930s (2016)
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McClean, A. (2016). Painting the town red: the impact of Anglo-Soviet exchange on the visual arts in Britain in the 1930s. Russian Journal of Communication, 8(3), 230-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/19409419.2016.1213616

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. At its peak in the mid-1930s, the society for cultural relations with the Soviet Union (SCRs) could count among its membership some of the most influential creative practitioners working... Read More about Painting the town red: the impact of Anglo-Soviet exchange on the visual arts in Britain in the 1930s.

The naturalist in the Garden of Eden: Science and colonial landscape in Jem Poster's Rifling Paradise (2006) (2016)
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Boccardi, M. (2016). The naturalist in the Garden of Eden: Science and colonial landscape in Jem Poster's Rifling Paradise (2006). Victoriographies, 6(2), 112-130. https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2016.0227

This essay seeks to supplement an established critical tradition that reads natural history in neo-Victorian fiction from a postmodern and largely de-politicised perspective. I argue that the figure of the naturalist can be used to revisit natural hi... Read More about The naturalist in the Garden of Eden: Science and colonial landscape in Jem Poster's Rifling Paradise (2006).

Theorising digital scholarship – introducing the new edition (2016)
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Costa, C., & Murphy, M. (2016). Theorising digital scholarship – introducing the new edition

This is the first edition of our new online Journal, the Journal of Applied Social Theory, and it makes sense to launch the journal via a special edition on theorising digital scholarship. After all, the journal is online and fully acce... Read More about Theorising digital scholarship – introducing the new edition.

Barry Unsworth's Morality Play: Narrative, detection, history (2016)
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Boccardi, M. (2016). Barry Unsworth's Morality Play: Narrative, detection, history. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 7(2), 204-213. https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2016.9

© 2016 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Morality Play is a historical detective novel set in the late fourteenth century and published in 1995, at a time of flourishing for historical fiction in Britain. This article argues that the novel shares some of the... Read More about Barry Unsworth's Morality Play: Narrative, detection, history.

In Search of Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat (2016)
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Jarvis, R. (2017). In Search of Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40(1), 111-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12407

© 2016 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Robert Lovell (1771-1796) is known chiefly as one of the apostles of the ill-fated Pantisocratic emigration scheme conceived by Coleridge and Southey. This essay considers Lovell’s life and work... Read More about In Search of Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat.

The house of worth: Portrait of an archive (2016)
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Gormally, M. F. (2017). The house of worth: Portrait of an archive. Fashion Theory, 21(1), 109-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2016.1179400

The House of Worth: Portrait of an Archive stands as a challenge to the ways we research, write and teach fashion and visual cultural histories. This landmark book invites a wide readership. A work of such magnitude calls for an extended response.... Read More about The house of worth: Portrait of an archive.

In the Living Room: Second Screens and TV Audiences (2016)
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Wilson, S. (2016). In the Living Room: Second Screens and TV Audiences. Television and New Media, 17(2), 174-191. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476415593348

© The Author(s) 2015. This article is based on a small pilot project exploring the role, function, and meanings of second screens and companion apps for TV audiences that is contextualized by existing academic audience research. This is mapped alongs... Read More about In the Living Room: Second Screens and TV Audiences.

“Cascades, torrents & drowning” in information: seeking help in the contemporary general practitioner practice in the UK (2016)
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Holley, D., Santos, P., Cook, J., Kerr, M., & Treasure-Jones, T. (2016). “Cascades, torrents & drowning” in information: seeking help in the contemporary general practitioner practice in the UK. Interactive Learning Environments, 24(5), 954-967. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2015.1128206

© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. ABSTRACT: This paper responds to the Alpine Rendez-Vous “crisis” in technology-enhanced learning. It takes a contested area of policy as well as a rapid change in the National Health Service, and... Read More about “Cascades, torrents & drowning” in information: seeking help in the contemporary general practitioner practice in the UK.

How do language-specific characteristics affect the acquisition of different relative clause types? Evidence from Finnish (2016)
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Kirjavainen, M., Kidd, E., & Lieven, E. (2017). How do language-specific characteristics affect the acquisition of different relative clause types? Evidence from Finnish. Journal of Child Language, 44(01), 120-157. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000915000768

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016. We report three studies (one corpus, two experimental) that investigated the acquisition of relative clauses (RCs) in Finnish-speaking children. Study 1 found that Finnish children's naturalistic exposure... Read More about How do language-specific characteristics affect the acquisition of different relative clause types? Evidence from Finnish.

Alors/donc/then at the right periphery: Seeking confirmation of an inference (2016)
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Beeching, K. (2016). Alors/donc/then at the right periphery: Seeking confirmation of an inference. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 17(2), 208-230. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.17.2.03bee

This paper compares the functions and development of right peripheral (RP) alors, donc and then in French and English. These items developed historically from temporal expressions, they express consequence and can serve, intersubjectively, as an appe... Read More about Alors/donc/then at the right periphery: Seeking confirmation of an inference.

The automation of everyday life (2016)
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Crogan, P. (2016). The automation of everyday life. adComunica. Revista Científica de Estrategias, Tendencias e innovación en Comunicación, 127-139. https://doi.org/10.6035/2174-0992.2016.12.8

This text is the translation of the conference The automation of Everyday Life, delivered by Dr. Patrick Crogan (University of West of England, Bristol), the 5th of February of 2016 on the Meetings about communitacion and digital culture:Emerging res... Read More about The automation of everyday life.