Outputs (10)

The trajectory of changing rhoticity in Bristol English: A consultative paper (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

This consultative paper by Blaxter, Beeching, Coates, Murphy and Robinson presents data on rhoticity in Bristol English. Through an investigation into the speech of 30 Bristol speakers the study demonstrates that this traditional feature is declining... Read More about The trajectory of changing rhoticity in Bristol English: A consultative paper.

Each p[ɚ]son does it th[ɛː] way: Rhoticity variation and the community grammar (2019)
Journal Article

This paper examines individual differences in constraints on linguistic variation in light of Labov’s (2007) proposal that adult change (diffusion) disrupts systems of constraints and Tamminga, MacKenzie, and Embick’s (2016) typology of constraints.... Read More about Each p[ɚ]son does it th[ɛː] way: Rhoticity variation and the community grammar.

Introduction: Strategic uses of politeness formulae. Analytical approaches and theoretical accounts (2019)
Journal Article

This essay introduces the special issue of the Journal of Pragmatics, co-edited by Beeching and Murphy, entitled Doing (mock) im/politeness.

The Discursive Construction of Blame: The Language of Public Inquiries (2019)
Book

This book examines the language of public inquiries to reveal how blame is assigned, avoided, negotiated and discussed in this quasi-legal setting. In doing so, the author adds a much-needed linguistic perspective to the study of blame – previously t... Read More about The Discursive Construction of Blame: The Language of Public Inquiries.

I'm sorry you are such an arsehole: (non-)canonical apologies and their implications for (im)politeness (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. I report on a study into how native British English speakers (N = 78) respond to various instances of I'm sorry played to them in an experimental setting. The test items vary in terms of what the speaker is ‘sorry’ for, but are c... Read More about I'm sorry you are such an arsehole: (non-)canonical apologies and their implications for (im)politeness.

Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses (2018)
Book Chapter

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.

Political apologies (2017)
Book Chapter

Encyclopedia entry

Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses (2016)
Journal Article

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.

Revisiting the apology as a speech act The case of parliamentary apologies (2015)
Journal Article

© John Benjamins Publishing Company. By looking at both apologies made in everyday conversation and those made by politicians in public, I aim in this paper to provide a full set of felicity conditions for the speech act of apology. I also discuss ho... Read More about Revisiting the apology as a speech act The case of parliamentary apologies.

(Im)politeness during Prime Minister's Questions in the U.K. Parliament (2014)
Journal Article

Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) is a weekly, half-hour long session in the British House of Commons, which gives backbench Members of Parliament (MPs) and the Leader of the Opposition (LO) the opportunity to ask the Prime Minister (PM) questions on... Read More about (Im)politeness during Prime Minister's Questions in the U.K. Parliament.