School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies

Garden paths and blind spots (2009)
Journal Article
Armitt, L. (2009). Garden paths and blind spots

A critical review of Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger: ‘she is a commensurate storyteller whose...novels are akin to a gorgeous meal’.

John to John: The Manuale Sacerdotis and the daily life of a parish priest (2009)
Book Chapter
Powell, S. (2009). John to John: The Manuale Sacerdotis and the daily life of a parish priest. In Recording Medieval Lives (112-129). Donington: Shaun Tyas

Manuale Sacerdotis, the priest’s handbook, is a five-part Latin text of between twelve and twenty chapters in each part, written probably at the end of the fourteenth or beginning of the fifteenth century by John Mirk, who was by then prior of the ho... Read More about John to John: The Manuale Sacerdotis and the daily life of a parish priest.

John Mirk's Festial, edited from British Library MS Cotton Claudius A.II. Volume 1. (2009)
Book
Powell, S. (2009). John Mirk's Festial, edited from British Library MS Cotton Claudius A.II. Volume 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press

The Festial, as the most frequently circulated orthodox English sermon collection of the Middle Ages, presents a particularly difficult task for the editor. There are two recensions, and there is also a comprehensive revision and expansion in four e... Read More about John Mirk's Festial, edited from British Library MS Cotton Claudius A.II. Volume 1..

The functional and social reality of discourse variants in a northern English dialect: I DON'T KNOW and I DON'T THINK compared (2009)
Journal Article
Pichler, H. (2009). The functional and social reality of discourse variants in a northern English dialect: I DON'T KNOW and I DON'T THINK compared. Intercultural Pragmatics, 6(4), 561-596. https://doi.org/10.1515/IPRG.2009.028

This paper explores the functional and social meanings of the formal variants of the expressions I DON‟T KNOW and I DON‟T THINK. The qualitative analysis of the data shows that I DON‟T KNOW and I DON‟T THINK are highly routinized discourse formulae t... Read More about The functional and social reality of discourse variants in a northern English dialect: I DON'T KNOW and I DON'T THINK compared.

Exploring MA students' attitudes to translation theory and practice : an action-research approach (2009)
Journal Article
Hanna, S. (2009). Exploring MA students' attitudes to translation theory and practice : an action-research approach. Sign Language Translator and Interpreter, 3(2), 141-155

Most translation and interpreting programmes in the UK involve two main aspects: one is theoretical, meant to familiarize students with the history of translation and the most recent theoretical developments in the field, and the second focusses on p... Read More about Exploring MA students' attitudes to translation theory and practice : an action-research approach.

Othello in the Egyptian vernacular : negotiating the 'doxic' in drama translation and identity formation (2009)
Journal Article
Hanna, S. (2009). Othello in the Egyptian vernacular : negotiating the 'doxic' in drama translation and identity formation. Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication, 15(1), 157-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2009.10799275

Throughout the cultural history of modern Egypt, language
has been a site for constructing and contesting different
versions of national identity. While Classical Arabic (fusha) has been widely recognized by many as the legitimate expression of an... Read More about Othello in the Egyptian vernacular : negotiating the 'doxic' in drama translation and identity formation.

Retention of the passive verb in a Bedouin dialect of northern Oman (2009)
Journal Article
Eades, D. (2009). Retention of the passive verb in a Bedouin dialect of northern Oman

This article examines the form and function of the apophonic (“internal”) passive (AP) in an Arabic dialect of northern Oman. The AP is one of several features common to all the dialects of Oman, having been retained in dialects of both the “Bedouin”... Read More about Retention of the passive verb in a Bedouin dialect of northern Oman.

Polaroid, aperture, and Ansel Adams: rethinking the industry-aesthetic divide (2009)
Journal Article
Buse, P. (2009). Polaroid, aperture, and Ansel Adams: rethinking the industry-aesthetic divide. History of Photography, 33(4), 357-373. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087290903283593

This article takes the history of Polaroid photography as an opportunity to question a presupposition that underpins much thinking on photography: the split between industrial (ie useful) applications of photography and its fine art (ie aesthetic) ma... Read More about Polaroid, aperture, and Ansel Adams: rethinking the industry-aesthetic divide.

The European Union simulation : from problem-based learning (PBL) to student interest (2009)
Journal Article
Kaunert, C. (2009). The European Union simulation : from problem-based learning (PBL) to student interest. European Political Science, 8(2), 254-265. https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2009.8

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that, contrary to a commonly held view, it is possible to teach the European Union (EU) in a way that makes students enthusiastic about the subject. The paper is informed by my experience of leading a EU simula... Read More about The European Union simulation : from problem-based learning (PBL) to student interest.

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