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Dementia Performance And Environment: An Exploration Of Dementia Friendly Performance And The Importance Of Space And Place (2024)
Thesis
Dare, E. (2024). Dementia Performance And Environment: An Exploration Of Dementia Friendly Performance And The Importance Of Space And Place. (Thesis). University of Salford

This research looks at the design of the theatrical environment and how this is important in access to theatre for those living with dementia. It looks at the importance of scenography not just as a visual method of communication, but as a technique... Read More about Dementia Performance And Environment: An Exploration Of Dementia Friendly Performance And The Importance Of Space And Place.

Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture (2024)
Book
Wilson, J. (2024). Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009031080

Humans produce utterances intentionally. Visible bodily action, or gesture, has long been acknowledged as part of the broader activity of speaking, but it is only recently that the role of gesture during utterance production and comprehension has bee... Read More about Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture.

Relevance theory and metaphor : an analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’ (2019)
Journal Article
Price, H., & Wilson, J. (2019). Relevance theory and metaphor : an analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’. Language and Literature, 28(1), 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947019827074

‘Emotional Weather Report’ is a song by Tom Waits from his 1975 album, Nighthawks at the Diner. ‘Nighthawk’ is a US colloquial term popularised by its use in the title of Edward Hopper’s 1942 painting ‘Nighthawks’, which depicts a nocturnal scene in... Read More about Relevance theory and metaphor : an analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’.

Courtroom data and politeness research : a case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics (2018)
Journal Article
Wilson, J., & Price, H. (2018). Courtroom data and politeness research : a case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics. Journal of Politeness Research, 14(1), 63-95. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2017-0056

In this article, we take a neo-Peircean semiotic approach to analyzing an interaction in which a routine bail hearing between a defendant and a judge goes awry. Neo-Peircean semiotics is steadily gaining recognition within linguistics for providing a... Read More about Courtroom data and politeness research : a case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics.

Gesture in modern South Arabian languages : variation in multimodal constructions during task-based interaction (2017)
Journal Article
Watson, J., & Wilson, J. (2017). Gesture in modern South Arabian languages : variation in multimodal constructions during task-based interaction. Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 9(1-2), 49-72. https://doi.org/10.1163/18776930-00901006

Until fairly recently most linguistic fieldwork relied on written records of spoken data or audio-only recordings. The recent increase in research focusing on audio-visual data, with emphasis on the co-expressiveness of speech and gesture, has led to... Read More about Gesture in modern South Arabian languages : variation in multimodal constructions during task-based interaction.