Outputs (10)

Variability in native and non-native use of pragmatic markers: The example of well in role-play data (2015)
Book Chapter

Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British Sign Language users (2015)
Journal Article

This paper seeks to understand linguistic formality through the identification and measurement of contextual features. Using an adapted sociometric methodology to combine systemic functional linguistics and sign linguistics, a survey identifies the e... Read More about Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British Sign Language users.

Representations of politicians in contemporary Ghanaian hiplife music (2015)
Journal Article

In his article "Representations of Politicians in Contemporary Ghanaian Hiplife Music" Mark Nartey argues that in Asare Obeng's music politicians in Ghana are depicted as self-seeking, self-serving, and self-centered. Further, he argues that since it... Read More about Representations of politicians in contemporary Ghanaian hiplife music.

Investigating social presence in the voice-based chat room and the text-based forum in the Chinese online learning context (2015)
Thesis

Social presence has long been considered to be a key factor in enhancing learning in online contexts (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2000; Gunawardena & Zittle, 1997; Kehrwald, 2010; Ko, 2012; Tu, 2002b). New modes of online interaction, however, requi... Read More about Investigating social presence in the voice-based chat room and the text-based forum in the Chinese online learning context.

Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics (2015)
Book

Researching Sociopragmatic Variability showcases a range of research approaches and brings together new findings from three key areas: variational pragmatics, interlanguage pragmatics and contrastive pragmatics. The volume investigates sociopragmati... Read More about Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics.

Study Skills for Linguistics (2015)
Book

Magiovinium, Dropshort Farm, near Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire (2015)
Journal Article

An investigation of this Romano-British place-name and possible Germanic analogues.

Italian surnames in the Family Names of the United Kingdom project (2015)
Journal Article

An overview of surnames of Italian origin treated in the Family Names of the United Kingdom project.

Are you reading what I am reading? The impact of contrasting alphabetic scripts on reading English (2015)
Journal Article

This study examines the impact of the crosslinguistic similarity of translation equivalents on word recognition by Russian-English bilinguals, who are fluent in languages with two different but partially overlapping writing systems. Current models fo... Read More about Are you reading what I am reading? The impact of contrasting alphabetic scripts on reading English.

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.