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Situated identities in the discourse of insurance: A comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts (2018)
Journal Article
Nartey, M., & Huang, H. (2018). Situated identities in the discourse of insurance: A comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts. Language, Discourse & Society, 6(2), 119-132

This paper is a comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts. It analyses the similarities and differences in the identities that emerge from the situatedness of the insured and the insurer in the contracts in or... Read More about Situated identities in the discourse of insurance: A comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts.

Global reanimations of Frankenstein (2018)
Book Chapter
(2018). Global reanimations of Frankenstein. In C. M. Davison, & M. Mulvey-Roberts (Eds.), Global Frankenstein (1-17). New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein, at i... Read More about Global reanimations of Frankenstein.

Global Frankenstein (2018)
Book
Davison, C. M., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (Eds.). (2018). Global Frankenstein. New York: Palgrave

‘I shall prosecute a ruthless war on these monsters … ’: A critical metaphor analysis of discourse of resistance in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah (2018)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2019). ‘I shall prosecute a ruthless war on these monsters … ’: A critical metaphor analysis of discourse of resistance in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah. Critical Discourse Studies, 16(2), 113-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2018.1535987

In recent years, studies on discourses of resistance in politics have become prevalent, focusing mainly on the language of radical movements and rebel groups, but not the discourses on colonialism, imperialism, and repression which can be considered... Read More about ‘I shall prosecute a ruthless war on these monsters … ’: A critical metaphor analysis of discourse of resistance in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah.

Making the pilgrimage: Cary Grant’s hometown, Bristol City of Film (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2018, October). Making the pilgrimage: Cary Grant’s hometown, Bristol City of Film. Paper presented at Cinema, TV series and tourism conference, 2018, University of Lille

Film tourism extends to paying homage to not only film locations (“set-jetting”), but also to places that have a physical connection to characters, actors and celebrities, including their place of birth. Global film icon Cary Grant, heralded as the “... Read More about Making the pilgrimage: Cary Grant’s hometown, Bristol City of Film.

Visualising love: Family migration, separation and communication (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Agusita, E. Visualising love: Family migration, separation and communication. [www.vizlove.org]. Exhibited at Space Gallery, Old Market, Bristol. 30 July 2018 - 3 August 2018. (Unpublished)

This exhibition shares the outcomes of a research project by Dr Emma Agusita exploring the impacts of UK family immigration policies and rules on relationships between British and non-EU partners and families. Online archive featuring materials fr... Read More about Visualising love: Family migration, separation and communication.

"Nothing sacred”: Translating Angela Carter’s transgressive Japanese writings to film (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2018, April). "Nothing sacred”: Translating Angela Carter’s transgressive Japanese writings to film. Paper presented at British association of film, television and screen studies (BAFTSS) annual conference, 2018, University of Kent

Angela Carter spent several years in Japan in the late 1960s early 1970s where she claims she "learnt what it is to be a woman and became radicalised". At that time, Japanese culture was undergoing a cultural explosion in response to post-war occupat... Read More about "Nothing sacred”: Translating Angela Carter’s transgressive Japanese writings to film.

Getting published (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2018, April). Getting published. Presented at British association of film, television and screen studies (BAFTSS) annual conference, University of Kent

BAFTSS Postgraduate network workshop and panel discussion: ‘Getting published’

Football in computer-mediated discourse: A move analysis of match previews (2018)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2018). Football in computer-mediated discourse: A move analysis of match previews. Linguistik Online, 89(2), https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.89.4274

In the last couple of decades, linguistic enquiry into internet genres has become prevalent, resulting in the investigation of internet genres such as live-text commentary, weblogs, online news/news websites, and social network sites. In tandem with... Read More about Football in computer-mediated discourse: A move analysis of match previews.

Demystifying the REF (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2018, April). Demystifying the REF. Presented at British association of film, televisions and screen studies (BAFTSS) annual conference, 2018, University of Birmingham

Postgraduate network workshop panel discussion: ‘Demystifying the REF’

Entanglement (2018)
Book
Mahood, K. (2018). Entanglement. London: The Borough Press (Harper Collins)

On a hot October day in a London park, Stella sits in her red wedding dress opposite John. Pregnant and lost in thoughts of the future, she has no idea that lying in the grass, a stone’s throw away, is a man called Charlie. From this moment, Stella a... Read More about Entanglement.

Angela Carter, 1940-1992, Novelist (2018)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018). Angela Carter, 1940-1992, Novelist. In The Women Who Built Bristol 1184-2018 (93-94). Bristol: Tangent Books

Clausal coordination in Gã: The case of nì (2018)
Journal Article
Nartey, M. (2018). Clausal coordination in Gã: The case of nì. Languages, 3(1), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages3010003

This paper analyses the communicative functions of the Gã (Niger–Congo, Kwa branch) clausal connective nì, roughly corresponding to English ‘and’, drawing on Wilson and Sperber’s (1995; 2004) relevance theory. The study demonstrates that nì is a conj... Read More about Clausal coordination in Gã: The case of nì.

Screenworks: Publishing academic film (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2018, February). Screenworks: Publishing academic film. Presented at Thinking through the visual: A symposium on the intersection between film and research, 2018, University of Essex

Peer review of practice research - Panel discussion (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2018, January). Peer review of practice research - Panel discussion. Presented at Media, communications and cultural studies association (MeCCSA) annual conference, 2018, London South Bank University

AHRC Filmmaking research network (FRN) panel

Translating cultures: Literary gymnastics and formal hybridity in adapting Angela Carter’s Japanese writings for the screen (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2018, January). Translating cultures: Literary gymnastics and formal hybridity in adapting Angela Carter’s Japanese writings for the screen. Paper presented at Media communications and cultural studies association (MeCCSA) annual conference, 2018, London South Bank University

Angela Carter, one of the best known British writers of the 20th Century, was actively involved with the adaptation of her own work and also wrote directly for radio, film and television (explored in Crofts, 2003). She would have gone on to write mor... Read More about Translating cultures: Literary gymnastics and formal hybridity in adapting Angela Carter’s Japanese writings for the screen.