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Observation of Speakers
This chapter completes the reflection on data and how their accessibility impacts on the research design. The focus is on three strategies for...
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Agency, Power, and Disability: A Textual Analysis of The Silence Between Us
This textual analysis examines Alison Gervais’ 2019 young adult novel The Silence Between Us through the framework of Critical Disability Theory...
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If that’s what she said, then that’s what she said: a usage-based, constructional analysis of pleonastic conditionals in English
This paper investigates so-called pleonastic conditionals (PCs) in Present Day English, e.g. If you have to, you have to or When duty calls, duty...
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‘We Might Have a Conversation Once a Week but the Quality Is High’: Research and Consultancy in Primary Care Multidisciplinary Teams
In recent years the UK has seen a significant change to the operationalisation, delivery and culture of primary care services, from GP-led healthcare...
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DravidianCodeMix: sentiment analysis and offensive language identification dataset for Dravidian languages in code-mixed text
This paper describes the development of a multilingual, manually annotated dataset for three under-resourced Dravidian languages generated from...
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An Analysis of Humour Style in Nigerian Situation Comedy
Verbal blunders are usually perceived as humorous. However, they are also sometimes explained away as “a momentary loss of control over speaking”...
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Gaze Behavior
People with ASD often exhibit atypical non-verbal behaviours, which are often manifested by avoiding eye contact. Gaze constitutes an important...
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Just perfect, simply the best: an analysis of emphatic exclusion
When used next to a predicate at the extreme of a scale such as perfect , the exclusive modifiers just and simply convey a distinctive intensifying...
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Reproducibility in speech rate convergence experiments
The reproducibility of scientific studies grounded on language corpora requires approaching each step carefully, from data selection and...
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Style as Discursive Practice in the Multimodal Construction of Identity: Towards a Social Media Dispositif Analysis
The aim of this chapter is to outline my version of a style analysis which focuses on a comprehensive and integrative investigation of multimodality...
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Reflective Talk in Video-Mediated Post-Observation Conversations
The second analytic chapter of the book focuses on a previously unexplored interactional context, video-mediated post-observation conversations...
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An Ideological Analysis of the Former President Donald Trump’s Tweets During COVID-19
This study aimed to explore the former US President Donald Trump’s representation of “us” and “others” in his tweets related to COVID-19 and how he...
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An Analysis of BELF Small Talk: A First Encounter
While businesspeople recognise that skilful management of small talk is extremely important to establish and maintain a good working relationship, it...
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Interactional Approach to Cinematic Discourse How Do Woody Allen’s Characters Talk?
This book analyses and describes a segment of Woody Allen’s cinematic discourse, focusing specifically on the performed (or diegetic) interactions...
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Wielding Space and Time in Migrant Narratives: Personal and Professional Identities in Discourse
The chapter examines how spatial and temporal dimensions drive a migrant narrative forward in the storyteller’s presentation of self in...
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Directives and Politeness in SPICE-Ireland
Working from the perspective of Leech’s (The Pragmatics of Politeness. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014) modification to Blum-Kulka et al .’s...
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Self-Praise Across Cultures and Contexts
This book explores the extent to which self-praise is acceptable in both offline and online contexts, across different genres, platforms, and...
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Language, Embodiment and Anomalous Experience
In this chapter, we offer a brief historical review of the sociology of paranormal experience and develop an argument that this traditional approach...
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Design of CALT
In summary, when passage-based items were treated as a polytomous item, the problem of violation of local independence assumption could be...
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Bias in semantic and discourse interpretation
In this paper, we show how game theoretic work on conversation combined with a theory of discourse structure provides a framework for studying...
