bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Efficiency in ELF Communication: From Pragmatic Motives to Lexico-grammatical Innovation
Authors: Cogo Alessia , Dewey Martin
Published: May 2019

The considerable demographic shift in the use of English worldwide, with the effect that L2 speakers outnumber L1 speakers, particularly as typified in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication, is now widely acknowledged in Applied Linguistics. To a certain extent the resulting impact this has in relation to key issues such as the ownership of English has also been recognised. Description of the linguistic consequences of this shift however is less established, and lingua franca corpora are still in their relatively early stages of development, though growing in momentum. This paper will contribute to the emerging body of work that does report on empirical studies in the field, drawing on two corpora of naturally occurring lingua franca interactions which have been gathered for PhD projects at King’s College London. To date reported ELF research projects have tended to focus separately on one or other linguistic system, on phonology (e.g. Jenkins 2000; 2005), and to a lesser extent on pragmatics (e.g. House 1999), and on lexicogrammatical features (cf Seidlhofer 2004). The focus of this paper is to report on findings in both pragmatics and lexicogrammar, and in so doing to identify the interrelationship between the two systems and highlight ways in which they are mutually constitutive. The paper aims to show how pragmatic motives can lead to changes in the lexis and grammar, and in turn how lexicogrammatical innovations impact on pragmatic norms and strategies.
yet this fillie doth many times assault the brauest minds: Affirmative Declarative do in 17th-Century English
Authors: Bækken Bjørg
Published: May 2019

The origin and early use of periphrastic do has intrigued scholars for a considerable period of time, and it has been described as one of the great riddles of English linguistics. Numerous studies have been devoted to the topic; two early ones are Engblom 1938 and Eliegård 1953. In recent years there has been renewed interest in the use of do in earlier periods of English, and quite a few studies have approached the problem from the point of view of text linguistics and discourse analysis.
Must down: On non-occurring verbs of motion in modern English
Authors: Kjellmer Göran
Published: May 2019

The first line of what is perhaps the poet laureate John Masefield's best-known poem, "Sea fever", runs
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky
It is a memorable line in a fine poem. One of the things that make it memorable is the use of must down, a phrase with a somewhat quaint ring to it in modern ears.
Towards a Unified Representation of English and Norwegian Auxiliaries
Authors: Hauge Helene
Published: May 2019

Superficially, the auxiliary systems of Norwegian and English seem to be rather different, but in this paper I will attempt to show that these cross-linguistic differences are not due to the auxiliaries per se, but rather due to intervening factors which affect the systems for representing the auxiliaries. In other words, Norwegian and English auxiliaries appear to be highly similar once these other factors have been accounted for.
To Australia and back. The metaphor of return in Dickens' David Copperfield and Great Expectations and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
Authors: Mattisson Jane
Published: May 2019

Bernard O'Dowd's poem suggests a range of possible views of Australia. In this article I argue that a change in how the British Empire was perceived during the nineteenth century as a consequence of increased knowledge about the colonies is intimately connected with the possibility of return to the mother country. I concentrate on two major authors, Dickens and Hardy, focusing on The Personal History of David Copperfield (published between 1849 and 1850; hereafter referred to as David Copperfield), Great Expectations (1860-61) and Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1895-6).
Signifying Substance: A Cultural Analysis of Early Modernist Language Practice
Authors: Nyberg Lennart
Published: May 2019

There is a striking paradox in early modernist theory and practice concerning the nature of poetic discourse. Whereas some of its major representatives argued for "natural speech" and "prose effects" in poetry, above all in reaction to what was seen as the debased and hollow post-Romantic poetic diction of their most immediate predecessors, these arguments did not signal the openness towards everyday usage that could be read into them. Rather than adopting patterns of common discourse, poets evince a harshly critical stance to it, and especially to the language of the popular mass media.
A "Cry of the Dying Century": Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and the Women's Cause
Authors: Valkeakari Tuire
Published: May 2019

Kate Chopin's 1899 novel(la) The Awakening has elicited a multitude of scholarly responses since the beginning of the revival of Chopin studies at the end of the 1960s. Although feminist critics' enthusiastic embrace of Chopin and her work has influenced The Awakenings reception across the divided terrain of literary criticism, current views of the novel's position on the "women's cause" still vary greatly. Some scholars categorically label the feminist readings of the text anachronistic.
Engendering a New Republic: Charles Brockden Brown's Alcuin, Carwin and the Legal Fictions of Gender
Authors: Edwards Justin D.
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
“Words are more or less superfluous”: the Case of more or less in Academic Lingua Franca English
Authors: Metsä-Ketelä Maria
Published: May 2019

In the past fifty years, English has turned into the leading language of international communication. Despite its well-established status as a global lingua franca, there is a lack of descriptive research on how people actually use English as a global language. The aim of this paper is to contribute to knowledge of lingua franca English, and more specifically to investigate a linguistic phenomenon that is common to all languages, namely lexical vagueness. This study provides a detailed description of how non-native speakers of English use the vague expression more or less in international settings. Concordance analyses showed that more or less is among the most frequent markers of vagueness in academic lingua franca English. A detailed contextual analysis indicated that the expression is used to carry out various communicative functions in lingua franca discourse. This paper aims to show that non-native speakers of English are aware of the communicative potential vague expressions have and that divergence from native use does not result in communication breakdown.
Contrasts: A Defence of Desert Writings
Authors: Graulund Rune
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Boss, Michael, and Eamon Maher (eds.). Engaging Modernity: Readings of Irish Politics, Culture, and Literature at the Turn of the Century. Dublin: Veritas, 2003
Authors: Dantanus Ulf
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
A Rich Domain of ELF – the ELFA Corpus of Academic Discourse
Authors: Mauranen Anna
Published: May 2019

The academic field has used English as a lingua franca widely for a long time, and is a good choice for an ELF corpus. It is useful to restrict the scope of exploratory research in one way or another, mode and domain offering themselves as clear and reasonably unproblematic limiters in language sampling. What makes the academic domain suitable for ELF research is that it is demanding, deeply influential, and largely constituted by its own specific genres. This paper discusses the compilation principles of the ELFA corpus (English as a Lingua Franca in Academic Settings) of spoken language, and outlines the kind of research it has already produced and that is going on with the data.
VOICE Recording – Methodological Challenges in the Compilation of a Corpus of Spoken ELF
Authors: Breiteneder Angelika , Pitzl Marie-Luise , Majewski Stefan , Klimpfinger Theresa
Published: May 2019

VOICE, the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English, aims to provide a general basis for analyses of English as a lingua franca (ELF) talk on all linguistic levels. This paper discusses criteria that have to be fulfilled in order to achieve this aim. It illustrates that compiling a corpus of spoken ELF involves the reconciliation of different – and often conflicting – requirements: this means finding and keeping a reasonable balance between theoretical specifications, methodological considerations and practical limitations. The focus of this paper is on dilemmas encountered in the processes of data collection and selection and finding suitable ways of representing spoken ELF in written form.
Sentence openings in academic economics articles in English and Danish
Authors: Shaw Philip
Published: May 2019

Scandinavians have always had to use a second language to communicate with their peers. In hard science developments have long been international and it has been important for results to reach an international community of academic peers. In the last fifty years globalisation and professionalisation have affected many other academic fields (such as medicine and economics) in such a way that publication directed to a local community, including those involved in practice, has been downgraded relative to those which reach an international academic community (Kærgård 1998, Petersen and Shaw 2002). Simultaneously academic leadership has passed to the US along with leadership in other fields. The consequence is that all over the world academics feel pressure to write in English, as the language of the US, or be ignored.
English influence on the Swedish vocabulary 1800-2000
Authors: Stålhammar Mall
Published: May 2019

The present study is the result of a project intending to investigate the development of the Swedish vocabulary between 1800 and 2000, financed by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. This paper is based on the two reports published on the influence of English during this period (Stålhammar 2002, 2003). The aim in collecting and analysing the material was to get as complete an overview as possible of the lexical borrowings from English (including words imported via English). This was done by tracing the diachronic distribution, i.e. establishing when the different words entered the Swedish vocabulary, here defined as printed matter registered in major dictionaries or in electronic corpora. These loanwords were also categorized by area of use, in order to trace the causes and channels of word importation. For a better understanding of the mechanisms of linguistic borrowing, the material was divided into different types of loans (primarily direct loans or translation loans) over the period. The overriding aim was to obtain a better understanding of when, why and how words are imported from another language.
English Influence on the Icelandic Lexicon
Authors: Kvaran Guðrún
Published: May 2019

The study of loanwords has until now not played an important role in Icelandic linguistic research, and only a few articles have been written on foreign influence on modern Icelandic. In the last decades English influence on the language, especially on the vocabulary, has grown considerably, and as a result there has been an increasing interest in loanword studies, and in the roles loanwords have to fulfil to be adapted to the language.
Exploring Corporate Websites as a Setting for ELF Research: The Case of Ostrobothnian Export Companies
Authors: Aaltonen Sirkku
Published: May 2019

According to Jennifer Jenkins (2004: 63), the essential distinction between the use of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and that as a lingua franca (ELF) lies in their interlocutors’ native language. Speakers (themselves non-native speakers) of EFL use their English chiefly to communicate with native speakers (NSs) of English, often in NS settings, while speakers of ELF use English to communicate primarily with other NNSs of English. In what follows, I will explore how these criteria would be met by the use of English on Finnish corporate websites, and, consequently, their suitability as a setting for ELF research. As my material, I have used the websites of 16 Finnish Ostrobothnian export companies. If websites are seen as communication which incorporates mass and interpersonal communication via one medium and which provides the possibility of reciprocal information exchange with two sets of users, it may be possible to distinguish between EFL and ELF settings. Finally, I have also identified some features which I suggest could be submitted to further study as ELF features of English in Finnish corporate websites.
A Model of Idiomaticity
Authors: Warren Beatrice
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Interpersonal Complications and Intertextual Relations: A Thousand Acres and King Lear
Authors: Lindhé Anna
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Reading Wordsworth after McGann: Moments of Negativity in "Tintern Abbey" and the Immortality Ode
Authors: Simonsen Peter
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
The Narrated Self and Characterization: Paul Auster's Literary Personae
Authors: Berge Anne Marit K.
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
A Place for Project Management in English Studies and Communication Studies Curricula
Authors: Kampf Constance , Isohella Suvi
Published: May 2019

In this paper, we argue for a place for project management in the English Studies and Communication Studies curricula, often the home of Technical Communication programs, in order to offer students an opportunity to apply their language, discourse analysis, analytical skills, and creativity in a transitional setting which can serve as a bridge between the classroom and the workplace. The perceptions of the need for project management are examined with respect to interviews of Finnish technical communication graduates, and an example of a project management course focused on the communication aspects inherent in project management tools and process from a Project Management course taught simultaneously at the Aarhus School of Business and the Helsinki School of Economics is described, including examples from Project Management assignments which correspond to problem-solving skills. In addition, some of the project management genres are briefly discussed and related to key skills emerging from English studies and Technical Communication curricula.
„No Story Comes from Nowhere‟, or, the Dentist from Finding Nemo: Ambivalent Originality in Four Contemporary Works
Authors: Fredslund Jens
Published: May 2019

This paper offers a perspective on a range of contemporary developments and articulations of the phenomenon of intertextuality in fiction and film. Using as backdrop a brief discussion of different intertextual motifs in Salman Rushdie‟s Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990), Paul Auster‟s Travels in the Scriptorium (2006) and Pixar‟s animated short film Boundin’ (2004), it moves on to discuss the highly intertextual relation between the works of Swiss writer Robert Walser and the contemporary American experimentalist Alison Bundy. The paper thus problematizes and qualifies the line of demarcation supposedly existing between texts or works of art and aims to expand and exemplify the scope of reference, citation and paraphrase inherent in the overall concept of intertextuality.
The concept of 'dictionary usage'
Authors: Bergenholtz Henning , Tarp Sven
Published: May 2019

This article appears in a Festschrift dedicated to a renowned scholar who, among many other things, has distinguished himself by editing a number of proceedings from the Copenhagen International Symposia on Lexicography. In order to honour such a person, it is appropriate to take up a discussion on lexicography that was initiated twenty years ago in another Festschrift and immediately contested at a symposium in Essen, Germany.
Intertextual Patterns in J.R.R.Tolkien‟s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Authors: Kullmann Thomas
Published: May 2019

The thesis that every text is a „mosaic of quotations‟ from other texts becomes particularly obvious when examining literary fantasy, which refers to the implied readers‟ previous reading rather than to real life. An analysis of Tolkien‟s work shows that differences of style and narrative technique can be described as due to the choice of different pre-texts. In The Hobbit, fairy-tale and epic discourses are juxtaposed with everyday speech pattern through irony and parody. In The Lord of the Rings, elements of the nineteenth-century novel like circumstantial realism and pathetic fallacy are supplemented by archaic rhetorical patterns. The concept of intertextuality also enables us to examine the relationship between text and reader.
Interlingual Metempsychosis: Translating Intertextuality in James Joyce‟s Ulysses
Authors: Kosters Onno
Published: May 2019

Highlighting in its very title the unlimited dimensions of intertextuality, James Joyce‟s Ulysses selfconsciously establishes itself as a text that seems impossible to translate without losing essential elements. Ulysses, (in)famous for its multiple styles that in themselves seem to give shape and content to the various themes at hand, is a text for which the term „intertextuality‟ seems to fall short. With a particular eye for the problems that occur when translating intertextual elements of Ulysses into Dutch and other languages and following Fritz Senn‟s coinage of the term „interdynamism‟, this article sets out to investigate a handful of examples from Ulysses that pinpoint the problematic nature of the various echoes and allusions in it.
Milton‟s Womb
Authors: Forsyth Neil
Published: May 2019

Milton‟s Chaos is described at one point as „the Womb of Nature and perhaps her grave‟. Though this phrase translates some words of Lucretius, this essay argues that the link of Chaos with a womb is one of the most original ideas in Paradise Lost. The essay explores various ideas of Chaos and uses of the word „womb‟ in the poem and in contemporary contexts.
Cooper's Pioneer: Breaking the Chain of Representation
Authors: Löfgren Hans
Published: May 2019

In Cooper's Pioneers, the transition from “national literature” and a realist epistemology of representation toward a Romantic imaginary and increasingly individualized politics is linked to the decline of liberal political philosophy and to the loss of landed property as the political basis of society. While the dominant narrative reconciles two families, healing the breach between colonial and post-revolutionary society, displacing Indian claims, and re-legitimizing land ownership, a tragic epilogue—the regressive departure of the pioneer toward a new frontier— opens up a Romantic sub-narrative of desire. A complementary psychosexual narrative and discourse relocates the origin, so deliberately theorized in this novel in terms of natural property rights, in oedipal problematics. It is a regressive move which, paradoxically, also constructs the post-Enlightenment subject.
More than Murderers, Other than Men: Views of Masculinity in Modern Crime Fiction
Authors: Gregersdotter Katarina
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
“Ye Tories round the nation”: An Analysis of Markers of Interactive-involved Discourse in Seventeenth Century Political Broadside Ballads
Authors: Cecconi Elisabetta
Published: May 2019

The period of the English Civil War saw an exponential increase in the number of political broadsides. In a time when the printed word acted as a powerful weapon in the hands of the opposing forces, the balladeer constructed his propaganda exploiting the involving potential of the written-spoken genre. In this paper I shall investigate markers of interactive-involved discourse in Royalist broadsides and highlight their strategic function as builders and bearers of ideological consensus within a heterogeneous cross-section of English society. I shall also consider the direct reporting of other characters‟ speeches, showing how the authorial authenticity of their idiom reinforced the validity of the author‟s political claim. The analysis will show that some of the propagandistic principles of modern journalism were already at work in the ideologically-oriented discourse of seventeenth-century cheap-print.
Clausal order: A corpus-based experiment
Authors: Kjellmer Göran
Published: May 2019

One variable feature among many in modern English is that of clausal order. The relative order of main and subsidiary clauses seems largely random, which is why a closer look into a representative corpus could be motivated. The present paper attempts to show with the aid of corpus material that the randomness element is more limited than expected and that fairly consistent tendencies on this score can be demonstrated.
Trusty Trout, Humble Trout, Old Trout: A Curious Kettle
Authors: Sayers William
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Hutten, Tuomas, Kaisa Ilmonen, Janne Korkka and Elina Valovirta (eds.). 2008. Seeking the Self-Encountering the Other: Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Authors: Brown Birgitta
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
The Epilogue in Doctor Faustus: The Petrarchan Context
Authors: Eriksen Roy
Published: May 2019

Metaphors used in Epilogue in Doctor Faustus, particularly the cut branch and Apollo‟s burned laurel bough, are indicative of Marlowe‟s intellectual involvement with Petrarch and the former‟s role in the literary circle centered on the Countess of Pembroke. His Latin epistle to Mary Sidney in Thomas Watson‟s Amyntas (1592) repeats similar metaphors, and the combination in the Epilogue of these images with that of the “forward wits” point both to Petrarch‟s Sonnet 269 (“Rotta l‟alta colonna e ‟l verde lauro”) and Sonnet 307 (“I‟ pensava assai destro esser sul l‟ale”). In fact, lines in the Epilogue are strongly evocative of some verses in Sonnet 307, where Petrarch ponders the theme of overreaching. The Epilogue thus would document a continuation of the interest in Petrarch that is so evident in the Tamburlaine plays.
The Supernatural Arctic: An Exploration
Authors: McCorristine Shane
Published: May 2019

The magnetic attraction of the North exposed a matrix of motivations for discovery service in nineteenth-century culture: dreams of wealth, escape, extreme tourism, geopolitics, scientific advancement, and ideological attainment were all prominent factors in the outfitting expeditions. Yet beneath this „exoteric‟ matrix lay a complex „esoteric‟ matrix of motivations which included the compelling themes of the sublime, the supernatural, and the spiritual. This essay, which pivots around the Franklin expedition of 1845-1848, is intended to be an exploration which suggests an intertextuality across Arctic time and geography that was co-ordinated by the lure of the supernatural.
Braziel, Jana Evans. 2009. Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds. Albany: SUNY Press. 237 pp.
Authors: Borgström Anna
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Introduction
Authors: Avril Chloé
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Robert Louis Stevenson and Popular Culture
Authors: Dryden Linda
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Feeding the World a Line?: Celebrity Activism and Ethical Consumer Practices From Live Aid to Product Red
Authors: Davis H. Louise
Published: May 2019

This article examines the nature and efficacy of three major celebrity-inspired, ethical consumer charity campaigns: the 1984-5 famine relief movement, Live 8 and "Make Poverty History", and Product Red. Through an analysis of some of the most significant texts, spaces, and figures of each campaign, I establish how organizers capitalized on the ―one-world‖ notion to effectively draw audiences to consume both charity concerts and merchandise; and I identify the economic and psychological beneficiaries of each campaign and their subsequent celebrity driven, ethical consumer spin offs. My analyses allow for a theorization of the ways in which both Africa and charity function within the Western cultural imagination.
More for the Fit: Gender and Class in the Representation of Designated Adoption in a Selection of U.S. Television Series
Authors: Avril Chloé
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Themes and theme progression in Swedish advanced learners' writing in English
Authors: Herriman Jennifer
Published: May 2019

This study investigates how the Themes and Theme progressions in a sample of Swedish advanced learners‟ writing contribute to the method of development in their texts. A comparison is made to a sample of similar writing by British university students. It was found that the advanced learners‟ sample contains more interactional Themes, which create a dialogic method of development similar to that found in conversational language. Themes and Theme progressions which are typical of expository writing, on the other hand, are used less frequently. These include discourse label Themes, summative progressions, which manage the build-up of information as it accumulates in the text, and split progressions, which signal hierarchical relations between parts of the informational content.
Rosewater, wheel of fortune: Compounding and lexicalisation in seventeenth-century scientific texts
Authors: Crespo Begoña
Published: May 2019

This paper investigates the question of compounding as a productive word-formation process in Scientific English by exploring the concepts of collocation and lexicalisation. The claim is that compounds can exhibit different internal structures, including syntactically ambiguous forms, as is the case with the noun + prepositional phrase. Frequency of co-occurrence and the unique meaning of all elements, together with the phenomenon of technicalisation, argue in favour of such an assumption. Some constraints, however, must be admitted. On occasions, the semantic type of the head noun (abstract, concrete, proper, common) can determine whether a particular construction is to be classified as a compound or not.
The impact of English on Spanish daily life and some pedagogical implications
Authors: Luján-García Carmen
Published: May 2019

In applied linguistics, it is far from doubt the prominent role of English as a global language. However, not many studies (Rodríguez 2002; Reichelt 2006) have provided a deep account of the current role of English in Spain. This paper sheds light on the unprecedented prominence of English in almost every single area of Spaniards’ daily life. It aims to show the impact of English in various settings such as the Spanish linguistic landscape by analysing shop signs in English; the media, including television, radio, and music; interpersonal communications, which includes the workplace, and the academic setting. The Spanish education system has been given special attention, as this study examines all the educational levels and it discusses, from a pedagogical point of view, the Spaniards’ level of proficiency.
A corpus-based analysis of two crucial steps in Business Management research articles: The creation of a research space and the statement of limitations
Authors: Mur-Dueñas Pilar
Published: May 2019

English has been established as the Language for Research Publication Purposes in many disciplinary fields. Many scholars worldwide, therefore, face linguistic and rhetorical difficulties when writing their academic texts for publication in an L2. This paper focuses on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of two key steps of the research article: the creation of a gap in the Introduction and the statement of limitations in the Discussion. A corpus of 24 research articles in the field of Business Management are analysed in terms of the frequency of use, length and type of metadiscoursal language most commonly used in the phrasing of these two key moments of this academic genre in which authors clearly need to “market” their research. The results may be useful for designing materials and offering informed guidance to (novice) non-native writers when drafting their RAs in English in this discipline.
The consolidation of þat as an invariable relativizer in the history of English
Authors: Suárez Cristina
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
English in academic and professional contexts Editorial
Authors: Kuteeva Maria
Published: May 2019

This special issue of Nordic Journal of English Studies explores anumber of themes related to the spread of English as a global language inacademic and professional domains. This spread is closely linked toglobal trends in technological development, population mobility,transnational business organization, and education, which is increasinglydriven by market forces (e.g. Ek, Ideland, Jönsson and Malmberg inpress) and neo-liberal ideologies (e.g. Block, Gray and Holborow 2012).
Hybridism, edutainment, and doubt: Science blogging finding its feet
Authors: Mauranen Anna
Published: May 2019

Blogs have become everyday acquaintances in digital life. Although personal, political, and fashion blogs may be the best known, academics also engage in blogging about research. With fast-expanding digital publishing of all kinds, we may have to rethink the status of blogging in relation to our on-going research. This article discusses the perception of science blogs, and their status as a genre. It explores some blog threads talking about research blogging: are blogs a great way to improve outreach, or just dumbing down? Should we use blogs for publishing serious findings, or brush them aside as edutainment – preferably done by somebody else? Research blogs are explored in the context of science communication and research writing traditions, and their old and new features discussed.
The presence and roles of English in Swedish print advertising: An exploratory study
Authors: Garcia-Yeste Miguel
Published: May 2019

Despite the ubiquity of English in the Nordic societies, little attention seems to have been paid to the presence of English in advertising texts. Thus, the present study aims to survey the reality of the use of English in Swedish print advertising. A sample of advertisements published in Swedish magazines from different market segments is examined. Drawing on genre analysis and advertising research, this paper looks at the actual presence of English in this genre, at the moves that include English words and phrases, and at the values evoked by those expressions. The results suggest that English may not be so pervasive after all. Some of the roles and functions performed by English are discussed. Finally, questions to be addressed by future studies are presented.
Students’ attitudes to lecturers’ English in Englishmedium higher education in Denmark
Authors: Jensen Christian , Denver Louise , Mees Inger M. , Werther Charlotte
Published: May 2019

This study examines the evaluative reactions of university students to their nonnative lecturers’ English skills in English-medium instruction, i.e. when English is used as a lingua franca in an academic context. In particular, we examine the relationship between perceptions of English language proficiency and perceptions of general lecturing competence (defined here as knowledge of subject and teaching skills). Statistical analyses of 1,700 student responses to 31 non-native English-speaking lecturers at a major business school in Denmark revealed that the students’ perceptions of the lecturers’ English language proficiency is a significant predictor of their perceptions of the lecturers’ general lecturing competence and vice versa. We interpret this as a two-way relationship caused by speech stereotypes similar to those which have been demonstrated in socialpsychological experiments. This effect should be addressed when universities use student ratings to evaluate teaching in English-medium content courses.
Pragmatic markers in spoken interlanguage
Authors: Aijmer Karin
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Eighteenth-century Female English Grammar Writers: Their ‘Critical’ Voice in the Prefaces to Their Grammars
Authors: Fernández Martínez Dolores
Published: May 2019

The eighteenth century was a crucial period in the history of English grammar writing. The purpose of this study is to carry out a critical discourse analysis on the prefaces of some English grammars written for schools by female English grammar-writers. In a male-dominated context of grammar production, prefaces turned into strategic instruments which allowed female grammarians to make their voices heard. By examining identification systems (Martin 1992) and transitivity structures (Halliday 2004), this study will illustrate the discourse patterns employed by female grammarians to exercise authority and to produce a persuasive effect on the reader.
'Kids' and German lexicography
Authors: Busse Ulrich
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
The Place of Writing in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Patrick Kavanagh
Authors: Gilsenan Nordin Irene
Published: May 2019

This article addresses the theme of place in the poetry of W. B. Yeats and Patrick Kavanagh, focusing on the concept of place as a physical and psychological entity. The article explores place as a creative force in the work of these two poets, in relation to the act of writing. Seamus Heaney, in his essay “The Sense of Place,” talks about the “history of our sensibilities” that looks to the stable element of the land for continuity: “We are dwellers, we are namers, we are lovers, we make homes and search for our histories” (Heaney 1980: 148-9). Thus, in a physical sense, place is understood as a site in which identity is located and defined, but in a metaphysical sense, place is also an imaginative space that maps the landscapes of the mind. This article compares the different ways in which Yeats and Kavanagh relate to their place of writing, physically and artistically, where place is understood as a physical lived space, and as a liberating site for an exploration of poetic voice, where the poet creates his own country of the mind.
The Northern Athens or A City Of Horrors? Belfast as Presented by Some Irish Women Writers
Authors: Olinder Britta
Published: May 2019

Few cities have changed so much over the last century as Belfast. This is mainly due to industrialisation and de-industrialisation and not least to the three decades of the Troubles. For women the same period has meant the gaining of the vote, opportunities to work outside of the home and growing independence. My purpose here is to investigate the pictures of Belfast in the work of some Irish women writers and the urban spaces available to their characters, considering the segregation of the city. The idea of an urban culture is cohesion, of people living closely together and sharing the same space and culture, while Belfast in the twentieth century has been marked by class divisions, gender inequality and political disruption. I will investigate A Belfast Woman by Mary Beckett, a novel by Deirdre Madden and plays by Anne Devlin and Christina Reid for the different neighbourhoods in Belfast they present and the role there of gender and class barriers.
Mourning Mothers: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Parental Relationships in Colm Tóibín’s Mothers and Sons
Authors: Post Tyler
Published: May 2019

Modern Irish literary criticism is routinely concerned with representations of gender and power, and the multitudinous forms that they assume within Irish literature. This paper examines Colm Tóibín’s Mothers and Sons (2006) and its negotiation with traditional representations of the Irish mother and son, and how it challenges key assumptions about their role and function in Irish literature. In doing so, this paper argues for the primacy of a psychoanalytic reading, one which employs the theoretical framework of mourning and melancholy, as formulated, first by Sigmund Freud and, more recently, by Julia Kristeva. The paper proceeds to illustrate that the maternal and filial relationships, as represented in Mothers and Sons, exist as elaborations of repression, desire, and mourning, and thus can be understood as processes and metaphorical representations of the unconscious imaginary. The paper concludes that Tóibín circumvents the traditional paradigm of Irish notions regarding domesticity, gender, and power, by proffering an alternative representation of mothers and sons, one which ultimately engages with concerns that are most commonly associated with the territory of the unconscious.
Subtitles and international anglification
Authors: Gottlieb Henrik
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Experimental Entailments: The Case of Spatial Prepositions
Authors: Ursini Francesco-Alessio
Published: May 2019

In this paper we present an experimental study on native speakers’ access to lexical relations among spatial relations. Our main focus is a still poorly understood domain: the lexical relations that hold between (pairs of) directional spatial prepositions (from, to) and locative prepositions (at). Two broad families of proposals exist in the literature. One family suggests that the members of these two classes of prepositions are connected via the entailment relation. Another family suggests that the overlap relation connects directional and locative prepositions. These two proposals differ with respect to the predictions they make on how speakers can accept and logically connect sentences that include such pairs of prepositions. We offer an experimental study, based on a variant of the Truth-Value Judgment Task, which aims to adjudicate which family of proposals makes the correct predictions. Then, we discuss the theoretical import of the results.
Punctuation Practice in Manuscript Sainte Geneviève 3390
Authors: De la Cruz Cabanillas Isabel
Published: May 2019

The aim of the present article is to explore the scribal punctuation practice in one of Richard Rolle’s epistles, Ego dormio, in manuscript Paris Sainte Geneviève 3390. Analyses of samples seek to reveal regular patterns of use concerning punctuation symbols. Special uses of punctuation may indicate either rhetorical or grammatical functions of these symbols. The method of analysis considers contextual information in the description of each punctuation symbol to identify their functions. In addition, we have used earlier works on medieval punctuation in the identification and categorization of symbols along with their already attested functions (mainly Lucas, 1971, Parkes, 1992 and Zeeman, 1956). The results of the study will be compared with these functions in order to contextualize scribal use of punctuation symbols within the tradition in Middle English manuscripts.
Translation today: a global view
Authors: Dollerup Cay
Published: May 2019

Arne Zettersten, to whom this publication is devoted, has been one of the pioneers in the study of varieties of English in the world thus adding a global dimension to English Studies. Today's global view of English cannot avoid to take into account the central role of English in translation work and, at the same time, to note that the shift in focus from the Western world to the global stage also changes the emphasis in Translation Studies.
Resisting the Hero’s Tale: The Trope of the Cowardly Soldier in the Literature of the Great War
Authors: Pividori Cristina
Published: May 2019

Among the experiences of otherness that unsettled the imperial trope of the warrior hero, this paper focuses on the representation of the coward in three autobiographical responses to the Great War. By following the traces of the malingerer, the deserter and the psychologically injured soldier in Herbert’s The Secret Battle (1919), Aldington’s Death of a Hero (1929) and Manning’s Her Privates We (1930), the hero-other distinction induced by Victorian standards will be explored as a popular theme that becomes problematic on the Western front, as the figure of the (heroic) self and of the (antiheroic) other start to move away from the rigidity of the binary system. While Herbert, Aldington and Manning keep a strong component of their own class and patriotic identity both in their novels and in their lives, the Great War experience suggests the possibility of removing the association traditionally maintained between heroism and the Victorian notions of manliness. Such openness not only challenges the norm, but paves the way for the elaboration of a new sense of heroic selfhood. Particular attention is given to the representation of the shell-shocked soldier as a site of struggle and negotiation between the trope of cowardice and its reality.
I am wild about cabbage: evaluative ‘semantic sequences’ and cross-linguistic (dis)similarities
Authors: Bondi Marina , Diani Giuliana
Published: May 2019

The paper investigates the phraseology of evaluation in two comparable corpora of discussions from blogs in Italian and in English. Subjectivity markers are taken as an indication of the significant role that the writer’s ‘self’ plays in the genre, ideal territory for an analysis of the language of evaluation. After considering collocates and grammar patterns of the selected markers, the analysis centres on evaluative ‘semantic sequences’ by aligning typical recurrent surface arrangements with strings of prototypical meaning elements such as ‘entity or process evaluated’, ‘evaluation’ and different ‘sources of evaluation’. Four types of sequences are identified: ‘basic’, ‘framed’, ‘dialogic’ and ‘concessive’. The results attest for substantial semantic similarities over and above lexico-syntactic and inter-linguistic mismatches. Semantic sequences can be shown to be useful tools for cross-linguistic analysis.
Homecomings: Poetic reformulations of dwelling in Jo Shapcott, Alice Oswald, and Lavinia Greenlaw
Authors: Stigen Drangsholt Janne
Published: May 2019

In the study The Last of England?, Randall Stevenson refers to the idea of landscape as “the mainstay of poetic imagination” (Stevenson 2004:3). With the rise of the postmodern idiom, our relationship to the “scapes” that surround us has become increasingly problematic and the idea of place is also increasingly deferred and displaced. This article examines the relationship between self and “scapes” in the poetries of Jo Shapcott, Alice Oswald and Lavinia Greenlaw, who are all concerned with various “scapes” and who present different, yet connected, strategies for negotiating our relationships to them.
When the Golden Bough Breaks: Folk Drama and the Theatre Historian
Authors: Pettitt Tom
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Refugee or migrant? What corpora can tell
Authors: Berglund Prytz Ylva
Published: May 2019

It has been suggested that there is a clear difference between the terms REFUGEE and MIGRANT (for example Edwards 2015). A migrant is someone who chooses to move in order to find work or a better life, while a refugee is forced to move because of threat to life or freedom. This study looks at how the two terms are used in British English today and explores what contemporary corpora can reveal about changes coinciding with the escalation of the European migrant crisis.
Such and sådan – the same but different
Authors: Van der Auwera Johan , Coussé Evie
Published: May 2019

English such has a variety of uses, which nearly always involve the expression of similarity, and such can therefore be called a ʻsimilativeʼ. Swedish sådan has very similar uses. However, the two similatives differ strongly with respect to the frequency of some of these uses. Thus such, different from sådan, rarely functions as a noun or pronoun, compared to sådan it more frequently exhibits the so-called ʻintensifying useʼ and it has more competition from constructions with like, sort and kind (sort, typ in Swedish). The study uses three methods: (i) non-corpus analysis based on intuition, scrutiny of existing scholarship and google searches, (ii) analyis of comparable corpora, and (iii) analysis of parallel corpora.
Competent non-native users of English? Requestive behavior of Norwegian EFL teachers
Authors: Krulatz Anna
Published: May 2019

This paper reports the results of a study of English requests produced by Norwegian EFL teachers. The data were collected using a discourse completion task consisting of four scenarios eliciting high and low imposition requests. Head acts of requests and internal and external modifications were analyzed. The findings reveal a complex requestive behavior and sensitivity to the social context of the interaction and suggest that the teachers in the study have developed advanced pragmatic competence.
Children of Empire: Rereading Katherine Mansfield’s ‘How Pearl Button was Kidnapped’ (1912)
Authors: Jolly Roslyn
Published: May 2019

Katherine Mansfield’s story of a white (Pakeha) child kidnapped by Maori women and taken to their community is formally distinguished by its creation of a ‘naïve’ perspective on colonialism through the use of a young child as the narrative focalizer. The story illuminates and problematizes the historical question of the place of children in empire. With reference to works by Stevenson and Ballantyne, this essay discusses the relation between Mansfield’s short story and the nineteenth-century tradition of imperial adventure fiction featuring child protagonists. It additionally compares the childhood perspective on colonialism offered by Mansfield with the ‘authorized’ perspectives presented in imperial literature specifically produced for child readers by publishing outlets such as the Religious Tract Society. Mansfield’s story, it will be seen, unsettles a hegemonic tradition of using children to filter an ‘innocent’ perspective on the colonial other. The question of the other is the major theoretical issue explored in this story, which explores the dynamic of ‘othering’ in an imperial context as a two-way, mutually determining process. Pearl is as exotic to her Maori hosts as they are to her. By leaving unresolved the question of the kidnappers’ motives, the story presents empire as an indeterminate space of mutual fear and desire between colonizers and colonized.
The grotesque body in Ian McEwan’s short stories
Authors: Shahbazi Moghadam Nahid , Ali Termizi Arbaayah
Published: May 2019

The subject matter and imagery prevalent in Ian McEwan’s early fiction are shockingly unpleasant and justifiably notorious for their portrayal of grotesqueries to the extent that their significance has been ignored or undermined compared to his later more successful works. In the present study, we discuss these grotesque representations and their implications in a number of his short stories from the two collections of In Between the Sheets (1975) and First Love, Last Rites (1978). Our discussion of the grotesque body in the aforementioned stories relies on a synthesis of Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of grotesque realism and John R. Clark’s view of the modern satiric grotesque, which involves grim laughter and degradation reinforced through scatological imagery. We thus argue that the loss of a communal and regenerative sense of human existence in the modern life style can explain the sadism, masochism, violence or fatality prevalent in contemporary fiction as exemplified in McEwan’s short stories.
A singular stroke of eloquence: Tristram Shandy’s typography
Authors: De Voogd Peter
Published: May 2019

Between 1759 and 1767 Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy presented the reader withfour major typographical oddities: two black pages, a hand-marbled coloured leaf, aseries of squiggly woodcuts, and a woodcut depicting a flourish. This article describes thetechnical difficulties these non-verbal textual elements present to publishers of Sterne’smasterpiece, and argues that they are interconnected.
Gymnich, Marion, Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, Gerold Sedlmayr, and Dirk Vanderbeke (eds.) 2018. The Orphan in Fiction and Comics Since the 19th Century. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 316 pp.
Authors: Kella Elizabeth
Published: May 2019

The introduction to this substantial and wide-ranging study of the orphan trope in primarily British fiction from the 1800s to the present day is cowritten, with each author producing one of the five chapters, and one author producing two.
A worker’s consciousness: The psychology of class in Peter Currell Brown’s Smallcreep’s Day
Authors: Frederick II William
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
“I’m sick of my own country”: Ethics and aesthetics in James Joyce’s “The Dead”
Authors: Ryan Barry
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.