Outputs (194)

Positioning the Self and Others (2018)
Book

Though positioning has been addressed in social psychology and in identity construction, less attention has been paid to the specific linguistic markers which are drawn upon in discourse to position the self and other(s). This volume focusses on addr... Read More about Positioning the Self and Others.

Introduction (2018)
Book Chapter

This volume brings together contributions inspired by discussions that took place during the Panel “Positioning the self and others: Linguistic traces” which was held at the 14th IPrA Conference in Antwerp, 26–31 July 2015. Though much work has been... Read More about Introduction.

I'm sorry you are such an arsehole: (non-)canonical apologies and their implications for (im)politeness (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. I report on a study into how native British English speakers (N = 78) respond to various instances of I'm sorry played to them in an experimental setting. The test items vary in terms of what the speaker is ‘sorry’ for, but are c... Read More about I'm sorry you are such an arsehole: (non-)canonical apologies and their implications for (im)politeness.

Phonological awareness and word reading development in Acehnese-Indonesian bilinguals learning English as a third language (2018)
Thesis

This study investigates the phonological awareness and multi-literacy acquisitions of Indonesian-speaking children with a varied level of Acehnese spoken language experience. The study specifically looks for the possibility of metalinguistic awarenes... Read More about Phonological awareness and word reading development in Acehnese-Indonesian bilinguals learning English as a third language.

Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning (2018)
Journal Article

This study investigated the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning by comparing three conditions in which there was (a) limited time to write words, (b) unlimited time to write words, and (c) a non-writing word-picture pairs comparison. Non-n... Read More about Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning.

Football in computer-mediated discourse: A move analysis of match previews (2018)
Journal Article

In the last couple of decades, linguistic enquiry into internet genres has become prevalent, resulting in the investigation of internet genres such as live-text commentary, weblogs, online news/news websites, and social network sites. In tandem with... Read More about Football in computer-mediated discourse: A move analysis of match previews.

Clausal coordination in Gã: The case of nì (2018)
Journal Article

This paper analyses the communicative functions of the Gã (Niger–Congo, Kwa branch) clausal connective nì, roughly corresponding to English ‘and’, drawing on Wilson and Sperber’s (1995; 2004) relevance theory. The study demonstrates that nì is a conj... Read More about Clausal coordination in Gã: The case of nì.

Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses (2018)
Book Chapter

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.

Two lost place-names in the west Midlands: Gaia in Lichfield and The Gay in Shrewsbury (2018)
Journal Article

The purpose of this article is to note the existence of two, or probably three, related unexplained names, to present possible further examples of the element involved, and to review how far it is possible to explain them.

Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approach (2018)
Book Chapter

© 2018 John Benjamins Publishing Company. Metacommenters allow speakers to take some distance from a particular lexical selection, or enter into a negotiation with their interlocutors. A variational pragmatics approach is taken to the investigation o... Read More about Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approach.

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.

Bibliography of, and notes on, railways in Ceredigion (2017)
Other

As per title

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