Outputs (27)

Investigating grammatical borrowing in Moseten through historical sources (2024)
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Using historical sources (1804-1913), this paper investigates the influence of Span-ish on the grammar of modern Mosetén, an indigenous language spoken in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes and the adjoining Amazon basin. Focusing on the categories... Read More about Investigating grammatical borrowing in Moseten through historical sources.

The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse (2022)
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This book explores different aspects of metaphoricity in legal discourse, from court proceedings and written institutionalised texts to judges’ argumentation and in spoken records, among others. It brings together linguists and law professionals from... Read More about The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse.

Analyzing and interpreting COVID-19-related texts in Chinese: A systemic functional perspective (2021)
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The discourse of Nkrumaism: A corpus-informed study (2020)
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Elite multilingualism (2019)
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A chapter on Elite Multilingualism

“I cut it and I… well now what?”: (Un)collaborative language in timed puzzle games (2019)
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Language, in its production and reception, allows us to perform collaborative tasks. These tasks may involve language solely, such as the sentencing of a criminal by a judge, or by using language alongside physical actions. In the world of video gami... Read More about “I cut it and I… well now what?”: (Un)collaborative language in timed puzzle games.

Introduction (2018)
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This volume brings together contributions inspired by discussions that took place during the Panel “Positioning the self and others: Linguistic traces” which was held at the 14th IPrA Conference in Antwerp, 26–31 July 2015. Though much work has been... Read More about Introduction.

Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approach (2018)
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© 2018 John Benjamins Publishing Company. Metacommenters allow speakers to take some distance from a particular lexical selection, or enter into a negotiation with their interlocutors. A variational pragmatics approach is taken to the investigation o... Read More about Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approach.

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

‘We’re not fully Welsh’: Hierarchies of belonging and ‘new’ speakers of Welsh (2017)
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This chapter seeks to problematise the concept of the ‘new’ and ‘learner’ speaker from the standpoint of a situated, ethnographic analysis and in doing so, draws on research conducted in two contrasting secondary schools in south-west Wales: an Engli... Read More about ‘We’re not fully Welsh’: Hierarchies of belonging and ‘new’ speakers of Welsh.

Just a suggestion: just/e in French and English (2017)
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Reflexivity and discourse-pragmatic variation and change (2017)
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This chapter takes a corpus linguistic approach to the investigation of reflexive, or metacommenting, expressions in French, primarily si tu veux/si vous voulez (STV/SVV). STV and SVV form part of a range of frequently occurring reflexive devices whi... Read More about Reflexivity and discourse-pragmatic variation and change.

Competition metaphors & ideology: Life as a race (2017)
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This chapter demonstrates how metaphors used in the British parliament show evidence of varying attitudes towards the underlying conceptual metaphors NATION STATES ARE COMPETITORS and LIFE IS A RACE. More generally it shows the ideological motivation... Read More about Competition metaphors & ideology: Life as a race.

Political apologies (2017)
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Encyclopedia entry

Insights from contrastive linguistics: Translating 'sort of' into French (2016)
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Identifying the meanings and functions of pragmatic markers such as well, you know, I mean and sort of has posed a considerable challenge for linguists in semantics and pragmatics, particularly those interested in semantic change and pragmaticalisati... Read More about Insights from contrastive linguistics: Translating 'sort of' into French.

Language and resistance: Memories of transatlantic slavery, and its continuing afterlives in the use of Rastafari language and terminology (2016)
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This article discusses how language within the Rastafari culture, known as Iyaric, or Word Sound, has been formed in resistance to the effects of white supremacist domination in the forms of slavery and colonialization. It explores how Rastafari ter... Read More about Language and resistance: Memories of transatlantic slavery, and its continuing afterlives in the use of Rastafari language and terminology.

Variability in native and non-native use of pragmatic markers: The example of well in role-play data (2015)
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A parallel corpus approach to investigating semantic change (2013)
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Traugott and Dasher (2002) draw our attention to items at the extreme right of the spectrum of semantic change where the canonical or core meaning is almost entirely bleached. Lexicographers and semanticists have struggled to pin down the senses of s... Read More about A parallel corpus approach to investigating semantic change.

Naturalistic data (2013)
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Chapter on collecting and analysing naturalistic data.

"Agricultural" compound terms and names in tun like Acton and Barton (2012)
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