Outputs (27)

Comparative keyword analysis and leadership communication: Tony Blair - A study of rhetorical style (2012)
Book Chapter

What do we expect from our leaders, and how do we judge their performance? There can be no substantive assessment of leaders and leadership without comparing the fundamentally different contexts and settings in which leaders operate. At a time when i... Read More about Comparative keyword analysis and leadership communication: Tony Blair - A study of rhetorical style.

Sociolinguistic aspects of lexical variation in french (2012)
Book Chapter

In his volume on Parisian French, Lodge (2004) highlights the importance of lexical variation in French, finding it anomalous that sociolinguists, in the Labovian tradition at least, have neglected this highly salient aspect of speaker identity. As... Read More about Sociolinguistic aspects of lexical variation in french.

The acquisition of relative clauses in Finnish; the effect of input (2011)
Book Chapter

Little research has been conducted to date investigating Finnish children’s relative clause acquisition. We report a study on the emergence of these structures in one Finnish speaking child’s corpus between the ages of 1;7 – 3;6. The study focuses on... Read More about The acquisition of relative clauses in Finnish; the effect of input.

English proficiency and academic success: A study of Chinese students in UK Higher Education (2009)
Book Chapter

Language dominance and lexical diversity: How bilinguals and L2 learners differ in their knowledge and use of French lexical and functional items (2009)
Book Chapter

This chapter makes an important contribution to our understanding of how the language abilities of bilinguals differ from those of second language learners. Few researchers have so far attempted to assess the knowledge bilinguals have of either langu... Read More about Language dominance and lexical diversity: How bilinguals and L2 learners differ in their knowledge and use of French lexical and functional items.

Code-switching and transfer: An exploration of similarities and differences (2009)
Book Chapter

This chapter contributes to our understanding of the ways in which code-switching (the use of more than one language in discourse) differs from transfer (the influence of one language on another). There is considerable confusion about the terminology... Read More about Code-switching and transfer: An exploration of similarities and differences.

Procatalepsis and the etymology of hedging and boosting particles (2009)
Book Chapter

This chapter breaks new ground by highlighting the role of concession in semantic change, drawing examples cross-linguistically from English, French and German. It contributes to theories of semantic change which support cognitive and social-interact... Read More about Procatalepsis and the etymology of hedging and boosting particles.