All Outputs (128)

Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945 (2023)
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Richards, M. (2024). Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945. European History Quarterly, 54(1), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231216874

Recent accounting for disease in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War has been contained within study of hunger in the early 1940s. Historians have cited the typhus epidemic which hit Spain between 1939 and 1945 as demonstrating a causal link betwe... Read More about Imagining Contagion: Epidemic, Prisons, and Franco Spain's Politics of Space, 1936–1945.

Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order (2023)
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Richards, M. (in press). Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order. English Historical Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead151

This article analyses the conditions and ideas motivating cross-border connectivity among young Roman Catholic intellectuals during the trans-war era of the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Pax Romana, the Swiss-based international association of Catholi... Read More about Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order.

The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership (2023)
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Kirjavainen, M., Howie, G., Rudge, L. A., & Nicholson, L. (2024). The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership. Journal of Second Language Studies, 7(1), 129-156. https://doi.org/10.1075/jsls.00020.kir

We present three studies that investigate the effect of group-level language ability expectations on language ability judgements. Study 1 identifies expected English-language ability levels that native English speakers’ have for a number of non-nativ... Read More about The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership.

A short history of humour in travel writing (2023)
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Jarvis, R. (2023). A short history of humour in travel writing. Studies in Travel Writing, 26(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2023.2218048

Until comparatively recent times, travel writing has not been a genre renowned for its humorous qualities. Yet nothing demonstrates the cultural and historical relativity of humour as clearly as the evolution of travel writing from the early nineteen... Read More about A short history of humour in travel writing.

Proximity and knowledge sharing in coworking spaces: The case of São Paulo (2023)
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Nakano, D., Gomes dos Santos, E., Mota Lima, E., & Virani, T. (2023). Proximity and knowledge sharing in coworking spaces: The case of São Paulo. Geoforum, 144, Article 103789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103789

This paper studies proximity and knowledge creation and sharing in coworking spaces, which are currently abundant in large metropolitan areas. Physical and non-physical proximities can have a positive effect on knowledge sharing, as they facilitate c... Read More about Proximity and knowledge sharing in coworking spaces: The case of São Paulo.

Understanding how value, power and expertise circulates in (creative) knowledge exchange programmes (2023)
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Roberts, L. (in press). Understanding how value, power and expertise circulates in (creative) knowledge exchange programmes. Creative Industries Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2023.2210706

This paper uses the South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) in the South West, UK, as a case study to examine the diverse economies evident in knowledge exchange (KE) programmes delivering university-industry research and development (R&D). Co... Read More about Understanding how value, power and expertise circulates in (creative) knowledge exchange programmes.

Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk (2023)
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Bould, M. (2023). Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk. American Literary History, 35(2), 1107-1110. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad069

We live in perilous times. Atmospheric CO2 levels continue to rise, and with them global temperatures. Business-as-usual immiserates and impoverishes us all, depleting soil and water, melting glaciers and ice caps, acidifying oceans, deforesting, des... Read More about Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk.

The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies, Mia Lindgren and Jason Loviglio (eds) (2022) (2023)
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Atkins, P. (2023). The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies, Mia Lindgren and Jason Loviglio (eds) (2022). Radio Journal -Intellect-, 21(1), 134-136. https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00078_5

Review of: The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies, Mia Lindgren and Jason Loviglio (eds) (2022) Abingdon: Routledge, 502 pp., ISBN 978-0-36743-263-8, h/bk, £210.00

Sarah Godfrey, masculinity in British cinema, 1990–2010 (2023)
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Spicer, A. (2023). Sarah Godfrey, masculinity in British cinema, 1990–2010. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 20(2), 262-264. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0671

Although much comment is passed about male characters and identities in discussions of British cinema, systematic studies of masculinity are extremely rare. To my knowledge, Sarah Godfrey’s is the first to appear since my own Typical Men: The Represe... Read More about Sarah Godfrey, masculinity in British cinema, 1990–2010.

Words without end: Lionel Fianthorpe's science fiction revisited (2023)
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Anthony, D., & Wallace, J. (2023). Words without end: Lionel Fianthorpe's science fiction revisited. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 52.1(144), 6-19

Why, 70 years after the publication of Lionel Fanthorpe’s first story Worlds Without End (1952), must his reputation as a writer of science fiction (henceforth SF) be reconsidered? In this article we suggest that Lionel Fanthorpe’s techniques and wor... Read More about Words without end: Lionel Fianthorpe's science fiction revisited.

Special Issue - Creative Higher Education Curriculum and Pedagogy - Editorial (2023)
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Agusita, E., & Naudin, A. (2023). Special Issue - Creative Higher Education Curriculum and Pedagogy - Editorial. Makings, 4(1),

Research in Art, Design and Media (ADM) Higher Education matters because it has the potential to enhance educational practice from the perspective of creative pedagogies and the cultural and creative industries. Specifically in practice-based ADM edu... Read More about Special Issue - Creative Higher Education Curriculum and Pedagogy - Editorial.

Cinema and soft power: Configuring the national and transnational in geo-politics (2023)
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Spicer, A. (2023). Cinema and soft power: Configuring the national and transnational in geo-politics. Transnational Screens, 14(1), 81-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2023.2184921

As the contributors to this valuable collection all attest, the concept of ‘soft power’ can be traced to the political scientist Joseph Nye, who, after an initial attempt in 1990, published Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (2004). N... Read More about Cinema and soft power: Configuring the national and transnational in geo-politics.

The decline of empires in South Asia (2023)
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Fisher, J. (2023). The decline of empires in South Asia. Middle Eastern Studies, 59(3), 532-533. https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2172247

Heather Campbell’s book discusses British policies towards Persia and Afghanistan after the First World War. She maintains that in order to comprehend these policies, one must understand the persistence of Great Game mentalities among senior policy m... Read More about The decline of empires in South Asia.

Introduction: Women writing work (2023)
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Darling, O., Harrison, L., & Houston, D. (2023). Introduction: Women writing work. Irish Studies Review, 31(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2163742

“I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.”Footnote1 So wrote Oscar Wilde, in his characteristically glib and stylish manner. The idea of a world without work might well jar with ou... Read More about Introduction: Women writing work.

The Howard League and liberal colonial penality in mid-20th-century Britain: The death penalty in Palestine and the Kenya Emergency (2023)
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Seal, L., & Ball, R. (2023). The Howard League and liberal colonial penality in mid-20th-century Britain: The death penalty in Palestine and the Kenya Emergency. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 62(2), 149-166. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12513

This article analyses the Howard League's campaigning against the death penalty in mid-20th-century British colonies. It examines two case studies: the Howard League's campaign to limit the death penalty in the Palestine Mandate in the 1930s and thei... Read More about The Howard League and liberal colonial penality in mid-20th-century Britain: The death penalty in Palestine and the Kenya Emergency.

Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives (2022)
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Beeching, K., Howie, G., Kirjavainen, M., & Piasecki, A. E. (2022). Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives. Pragmatics and Cognition, 29(2), 181-194. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.00025.bee

Despite being the object of considerable research effort over several decades, the status and function of discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs), fillers and filled pause (FPs) continue to be at the forefront of an expanding field of scholarly debate.... Read More about Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives.

Song for a scar (2022)
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Rogers, S. (2022). Song for a scar. The Contemporary Journal, 4,

One poem in a special issue of the journal on the theme of "Care"

Investigation into the linguistic category membership of the Finnish planning particle tota (2022)
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Kirjavainen, M., & Nikolaev, A. (2022). Investigation into the linguistic category membership of the Finnish planning particle tota. Pragmatics and Cognition, 29(2), 370-393. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.21019.kir

Even though hesitations (e.g., um/uh) were historically perceived as involuntary non-linguistic items (e.g., Maclay and Osgood 1959), more recently, a number of scholars have suggested that hesitations can behave like (a) lexical items (e.g., Clark &... Read More about Investigation into the linguistic category membership of the Finnish planning particle tota.

Crosslinguistic paths of pragmatic development The acquisition of actually and en fait by British and French children (2022)
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Beeching, K., & Crible, L. (2022). Crosslinguistic paths of pragmatic development The acquisition of actually and en fait by British and French children. Pragmatics and Cognition, 29(2), 195-221. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.21027.bee

Diachronic studies of discourse markers suggest they follow a unidirectional developmental path, from propositional to textual and expressive uses. The present study tests whether children acquire the propositional (literal) before the expressive (pr... Read More about Crosslinguistic paths of pragmatic development The acquisition of actually and en fait by British and French children.

Interactive documentary: Re-setting the field (2022)
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Aston, J. (2022). Interactive documentary: Re-setting the field. Interactive Film & Media Journal, 2(4), 7-18. https://doi.org/10.32920/ifmj.v2i4.1732

This article responds to the 4th Interactive Film and Media International Conference (IFM 2022) themes of eco-media, epistemologies and listening by focusing on the role that interactive documentary can play in addressing the existential and pressing... Read More about Interactive documentary: Re-setting the field.