School of Languages, Linguistics and Film: Recent submissions
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Tracing Bergman in Contemporary Indian Cinema: Philosophical Cross-Connections in Through a Glass Darkly, Ship of Theseus and Dear Molly
(2021-01-01)Ingmar Bergman’s cinema has most often been framed within strictures of a Eurocentric scholarly template and structuralist or modernist philosophical approaches. Meanwhile, the filmmaker’s monumental influence on and ... -
The urge to unmerge: a case of structural change across the lifespan
(Guarant International, 2023-08-14)This paper considers change across the lifespan by investigating an adult speaker’s development from a one-part low back vowel system to a two-part system. Specifically, we use podcast data to track the realtime development ... -
How ‘U’ are ‘U’ words?: Exploring variation in the usage and perception of class-based lexical shibboleths in British English
That U (upper-class) speakers and non-U (non-upper class) speakers are identifiable through the use of vocabulary is something of an axiom in England. These claims are repeated in books, magazine and newspaper articles, ... -
Language change is wicked: Semantic and social meaning of a polysemous adjective
As a result of an ameliorative shift-to-opposite, the polysemous adjective wicked is an auto-antonym, having two senses opposite in meaning, that is, ‘evil’ and ‘good’. We discuss two studies which explore the social life ... -
An Emmet's tale: The duality of social and lexical change
(Elsevier, 2023-08-29)Stockwell and Minkova (2001: 34) state that ‘the lexicon is the language layer most responsive to socio-political and cultural changes’. Despite this, lexis has been labelled as the ‘Cinderella of sociolinguistics’ (Beal ... -
Interpreting identity effects in sociolinguistic variation and change: The role of local identity in the usage and recognition of Anglo-Cornish dialect lexis
Despite the well attested finding that orientation to place can exhibit correlations with sociolinguistic usage (e.g. Labov 1963; Hazen 2002; Haddican et al. 2013; Reed 2016; Beaman 2021), the role of place identity in ... -
Adapting digital networks and resources for autistic users. A toolkit for the third and public sector
(Queen Mary University of London, 2023)This toolkit offers practical support to any third and public sector professional who wants to adapt their use of digital platforms. -
Understanding Autistic Adults’ Use of Social Media
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Boredom
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-07-31)This Element challenges prevailing views of boredom as a modern phenomenon and as an experience occurring inside our minds. -
Listening with style: The effect of bidialectal style-shifting on PRICE vowel perception in Britain’s Black Country
(Guarant International, 2023-08-14)Speech perception research has found that manipulating listener attitudes towards a dialect area can lead to convergence or divergence in production style, as well as a simultaneous convergence or divergence in perception. ... -
É necessário: uma análise de sequências pedagógicas de iniciação ao presente do conjuntivo em manuais de português língua estrangeira
(Dialogarts, 2018-01-01)Grammar instruction in Portuguese as foreign language (Portuguese MFL) resources has been negatively evaluated against a communicative language teaching (CLT) perspective. Previous analyses of coursebooks identify a trend ... -
A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023-07-07)
