"Agricultural" compound terms and names in tun like Acton and Barton
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Managing disagreement in problem solving meeting talk (2012)
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Problem solving (PbS) talk has been associated with disagreement and conflict as interactants oppose each other's views and express diverse opinions. Although disagreement and conflict have been regarded in earlier work as potentially negative acts m... Read More about Managing disagreement in problem solving meeting talk.
Comparative keyword analysis and leadership communication: Tony Blair - A study of rhetorical style (2012)
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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.
Shattering the Bell Jar: Metaphor, Gender, and Depression (2012)
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Working from 38 interviews with people who had experienced depression this study compares metaphors with those identified in previous research. It also compares the types of metaphor of men and women talking about depression and how these metaphors w... Read More about Shattering the Bell Jar: Metaphor, Gender, and Depression.
The effect of frequency and phonological neighbourhood density on the acquisition of past tense verbs by Finnish children (2012)
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The acquisition of the past tense has received substantial attention in the psycholinguistics literature, yet most studies report data from English or closely related Indo-European languages. We report on a past tense elicitation study on 136 4a-6-ye... Read More about The effect of frequency and phonological neighbourhood density on the acquisition of past tense verbs by Finnish children.
Grammatical collocations and verb-particle constructions in Brussels French: A corpus-linguistic approach to transfer (2012)
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This article shows how a corpus-linguistic approach to transfer based on Jarvis (2000), Jarvis and Pavlenko (2008) and Mougeon, Nadasdi, and Rehner (2005) can help to disentangle internal and external explanations in language variation and change. Th... Read More about Grammatical collocations and verb-particle constructions in Brussels French: A corpus-linguistic approach to transfer.
Transfer and language contact: The case of Pirahã (2012)
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In this article the author argues that the language contact situation between Pirahã (Muran) and Portuguese can best be explained in a framework combining the theoretical approaches to language contact and transfer. In this contact situation, Portugu... Read More about Transfer and language contact: The case of Pirahã.
Why transfer is a key aspect of language use and processing in bilinguals and L2-users (2012)
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Forensic deliberations on ‘purposeful metaphor’ (2012)
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The concept of ‘purposeful metaphor’ is proposed as an alternative to ‘deliberate metaphor’ (Steen, 2008) in providing a theory of metaphor in discourse and communication. The case for ‘purposeful metaphor’ is framed within a discussion of intentiona... Read More about Forensic deliberations on ‘purposeful metaphor’.
The older I get the less I trust people: Constructing age identities in the workplace (2012)
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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.
A toponomastic contribution to the linguistic prehistory of the British Isles (2012)
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It is well known that some of the major island-names of the archipelago consisting politically of the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the UK Crown Dependencies are etymologically obscure. In this paper, I present and cautiously analyse a... Read More about A toponomastic contribution to the linguistic prehistory of the British Isles.
Acquiring complexity: The Portuguese of some Pirahã men (2012)
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Variation in clause combining: Views from the New World (2012)
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New perspectives on language transfer (2012)
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