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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.