Outputs (12)

The meaning of names: A response in defence of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) addressed to Van Langendonck, Anderson, Colman and McClure (2017)
Journal Article

In a number of interrelated articles, I have presented some ideas about the nature of proper names, and specifically about their meaning. A central concept of these papers has been subjected to criticism, I believe inappropriately, by several scholar... Read More about The meaning of names: A response in defence of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) addressed to Van Langendonck, Anderson, Colman and McClure.

Ethnographic chats: A best of both method for ethnography (2017)
Journal Article

Conventionally, ethnographic methods in sociolinguistics aim to discover how language works as “situated social practice and how it is tied to social organisation” (Heller 2011: 10). Within this, ethnography has viewed participant observation as cent... Read More about Ethnographic chats: A best of both method for ethnography.

‘We’re not fully Welsh’: Hierarchies of belonging and ‘new’ speakers of Welsh (2017)
Book Chapter

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.

Welsh Lloegr 'England' (2017)
Journal Article

A new etymology is proposed for this controversial name, suggesting a Germanic origin.

Just a suggestion: just/e in French and English (2017)
Book Chapter

Capel Soar-y-mynydd, Ceredigion (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper

A history, description, bibliography, set of texts and photo-gallery of a chapel in Mid-Wales.

Reflexivity and discourse-pragmatic variation and change (2017)
Book Chapter

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.

Popular books on English place-names — a serious issue in onomastics (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, Ural University Press. All rights reserved. This article reflects on a recent spate of books on English place-names produced by a nonprofessional writer, showing in considerable detail, for five counties, in what ways these books are deficien... Read More about Popular books on English place-names — a serious issue in onomastics.

Political apologies (2017)
Book Chapter

Encyclopedia entry

Competition metaphors & ideology: Life as a race (2017)
Book Chapter

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.

All-consuming passions: Fire metaphors in fiction (2017)
Journal Article

This paper discusses the role of metaphor in describing intense romantic feelings relating to love, lust and desire in American fiction. I propose that ‘passion’ integrates notions of romantic love with the related ideas of ‘lust’ and ‘desire’. Using... Read More about All-consuming passions: Fire metaphors in fiction.

Preparatory to A Dictionary of Sussex Place-Names: A,E,I,O,U (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper

First tranche of new popular dictionary entries.