Outputs (13)

Daniel Wiechmann: Understanding relative clauses: A usage-based view on the processing of complex constructions (2016)
Journal Article

A book review

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.

Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors (2016)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Cognitive Science published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Cognitive Science Society. An experimental study was conducted on children aged 2;6–3;0 and 3;6–4;0 investigating the priming effect of two WANT-constru... Read More about Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors.

Review of Chiluwa (2011) 'Labeling and ideology in the press: A corpus-based critical discourse study of the Niger delta crisis' (2016)
Journal Article

Insights from contrastive linguistics: Translating 'sort of' into French (2016)
Book Chapter

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.

Re-negotiating ideologies of bilingualism on the margins of education (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This article reports on an ethnographic study carried out in three interrelated sites: two contrasting secondary schools and a Youth-Club (the principal focus of this article), in an area of southwest Wales. This article hi... Read More about Re-negotiating ideologies of bilingualism on the margins of education.

Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction (2016)
Book

Fundamental to oral fluency, pragmatic markers facilitate the flow of spontaneous, interactional and social conversation. Variously termed ‘hedges’, ‘fumbles’ and ‘conversational greasers’ in earlier academic studies, this book explores the meaning,... Read More about Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction.

On the possibility of proper verbs (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 by De Gruyter Mouton. The quality of being proper is always presumed, for perfectly understandable reasons to do with its function in acts of reference, to be restricted to nouns or noun phrases. This article is an exploration of the idea that... Read More about On the possibility of proper verbs.

Thomas Hardy’s tragic vision: Writing towards proto-modernist modes of fiction (2016)
Thesis

This thesis offers a narratorial and textual examination of the tragic in Hardy’s fiction and uncovers how his tragic vision of a changing world led him into proto-modernist forms of writing. By first positing Hardy within his milieu and exploring th... Read More about Thomas Hardy’s tragic vision: Writing towards proto-modernist modes of fiction.

How do language-specific characteristics affect the acquisition of different relative clause types? Evidence from Finnish (2016)
Journal Article

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016. We report three studies (one corpus, two experimental) that investigated the acquisition of relative clauses (RCs) in Finnish-speaking children. Study 1 found that Finnish children's naturalistic exposure... Read More about How do language-specific characteristics affect the acquisition of different relative clause types? Evidence from Finnish.

Alors/donc/then at the right periphery: Seeking confirmation of an inference (2016)
Journal Article

This paper compares the functions and development of right peripheral (RP) alors, donc and then in French and English. These items developed historically from temporal expressions, they express consequence and can serve, intersubjectively, as an appe... Read More about Alors/donc/then at the right periphery: Seeking confirmation of an inference.

EFL listening comprehension, cognitive and metacognitive strategies and working memory (2016)
Thesis

The purpose of this study is to compare the pedagogic efficiency of two methods for teaching listening comprehension: the cognitive strategy-based instruction method (CSBM) and the metacognitive strategy-based instruction method (MetSBM). Both instru... Read More about EFL listening comprehension, cognitive and metacognitive strategies and working memory.

Language and resistance: Memories of transatlantic slavery, and its continuing afterlives in the use of Rastafari language and terminology (2016)
Book Chapter

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.