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The Semitic Languages (2011)
Book
Watson, J. (2011). S. Weniger, G. Khan, M. Streck, & J. Watson (Eds.), The Semitic Languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

The emotive city (2011)
Book Chapter
Rooney, J. (2011). The emotive city. In A. Valente, C. Freire, C. Ferreira, & M. Herlander (Eds.), AVANCA Conferência Internacional Cinema - Arte,Tecnologia,Comunicação (284-292). Portugal: Avanca Cinema

The research project is designed to create new ways of looking at the story of a city; the focus is to present elements of the city as an art gallery space. Mapping technologies are used to present information as an aesthetic image. This project will... Read More about The emotive city.

The early absence of the French negative marker ne (2011)
Book Chapter
Rowlett, P. (2011). The early absence of the French negative marker ne. In P. Larrivée, & R. Ingham (Eds.), The Evolution of Negation : Beyond the Jespersen Cycle (209-220). De Gruyter

Publisher's description: Why do grammars change? The cycle of negation proposed by Jespersen is crucially linked to the status of items and phrases. The definition of criteria establishing when a polarity item becomes a negative element, and the id... Read More about The early absence of the French negative marker ne.

European internal security - towards supranational governance in the area of freedom, security and justice? (2011)
Book
Kaunert, C. (2011). European internal security - towards supranational governance in the area of freedom, security and justice?. Manchester: Manchester University Press

European institutions are either loathed or underestimated: this book analyses the role of EU institutions, especially the European Commission in an area which has seen tremendous growth over the last ten years – European internal security. From Just... Read More about European internal security - towards supranational governance in the area of freedom, security and justice?.

Political radicalism, policy expectation, and electoral competition in France : a means to the end? (2011)
Journal Article
Evans, J. (2011). Political radicalism, policy expectation, and electoral competition in France : a means to the end?. French Politics, Culture and Society, 29(3), 12-28. https://doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2011.290302

Political parties use policy radicalism as a means of attaining electoral success. Differentiation from other parties and ideological renewal after a period of incumbency or prolonged opposition are valid reasons for policy innovation, but excessive... Read More about Political radicalism, policy expectation, and electoral competition in France : a means to the end?.

European security governance after the Lisbon Treaty: Neighbours and new actors in a changing security environment (2011)
Journal Article
Neighbours and new actors in a changing security environment. Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 12(4), 361-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/15705854.2011.622953

The EU has been making strong inroads into the realm of security over the last few years. This is a remarkable development since security matters used to be the preserve of states. The EU has generally been considered a rather weak security actor. Ho... Read More about European security governance after the Lisbon Treaty: Neighbours and new actors in a changing security environment.

Holocaust impiety in literature, popular music and film (2011)
Book
Boswell, M. (2011). Holocaust impiety in literature, popular music and film. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230358690

Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film is an account of provocative and controversial representations of the Holocaust. Many well-known artists have attracted criticism for approaching the Nazi genocide in ways that have been deemed... Read More about Holocaust impiety in literature, popular music and film.

Learner autonomy in the UAE context : an investigation of students' beliefs and conceptions of autonomy in learning English language (2011)
Thesis
Al Ghazali, F. Learner autonomy in the UAE context : an investigation of students' beliefs and conceptions of autonomy in learning English language. (Thesis). University of Salford

This study investigates the beliefs of United Arab Emirates (UAE) secondary school students about autonomy in learning English. Given the extreme language diversity in the UAE, it is imperative that Emirati citizens excel in English due to its positi... Read More about Learner autonomy in the UAE context : an investigation of students' beliefs and conceptions of autonomy in learning English language.

Learner autonomy in the UAE context : an investigation of students’ beliefs and conceptions of autonomy in learning English language (2011)
Thesis
Al Ghazali, F. Learner autonomy in the UAE context : an investigation of students’ beliefs and conceptions of autonomy in learning English language. (Thesis). University of Salford

This study investigates the beliefs of United Arab Emirates (UAE) secondary school students about autonomy in learning English. Given the extreme language diversity in the UAE, it is imperative that Emirati citizens excel in English due to its posi... Read More about Learner autonomy in the UAE context : an investigation of students’ beliefs and conceptions of autonomy in learning English language.

Re-ordering the landscape : landed elites and the new urban aristocracy in Manchester (2011)
Journal Article
O'Reilly, C. (2011). Re-ordering the landscape : landed elites and the new urban aristocracy in Manchester. Urban History Review, 40(1), 30-40

This paper examines the relationship between the landed aristocracy in the vicinity of Manchester and the ‘urban aristocracy’ of the municipal authority and their role in the development of municipal parks in the city in the late nineteenth and early... Read More about Re-ordering the landscape : landed elites and the new urban aristocracy in Manchester.

In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: General extenders in north-east England (2011)
Journal Article
Pichler, H., & Levey, S. (2011). In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: General extenders in north-east England. English Language and Linguistics, 15(3), 441-471. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674311000128

In this paper, we draw on a socially stratified corpus of dialect data collected in north-east England to test recent proposals that grammaticalization processes are implicated in the synchronic variability of general extenders (GEs), i.e., phrase- o... Read More about In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: General extenders in north-east England.

On the descriptive ineffability of expressive meaning (2011)
Journal Article
Blakemore, D. (2011). On the descriptive ineffability of expressive meaning. Journal of Pragmatics, 43(14), 3537-3550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2011.08.003

On the descriptive ineffability of expressive meaning This paper addresses the question of whether there can be a unitary account of expressive meaning by considering the descriptive ineffability of expressives such as damn or bastard, on the one ha... Read More about On the descriptive ineffability of expressive meaning.

Reverses heart's reassembly (2011)
Book
Thurston, S. (2011). Reverses heart's reassembly. London: Veer Books

A dance with and against sense, Scott Thurston’s sequence moves and stands still, opens and closes itself, around a core of thought sentience and heart’s risk. A bodywork of language, intimate and extimate - William Rowe.

Girls interrupted : narrative constructions of identity among teenage mothers in the UK and France (2011)
Thesis
Langtree, S. Girls interrupted : narrative constructions of identity among teenage mothers in the UK and France. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis is premised on the understanding that narratives are not merely ways of telling others about ourselves, but are also a means of shaping our identities. It was informed by narrative research methodology that conceptualizes identity as m... Read More about Girls interrupted : narrative constructions of identity among teenage mothers in the UK and France.

Putting the Premium into Basic: Slow-Burn Narratives and the Loss-Leader Function of AMC’s Original Drama Series (2011)
Journal Article
Smith, A. (2011). Putting the Premium into Basic: Slow-Burn Narratives and the Loss-Leader Function of AMC’s Original Drama Series. Television and New Media, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476411418537

This article traces connections between the institutional configuration of the AMC basic cable channel and the deliberately paced narratives of its original series, such as Mad Men, Breaking Bad and Rubicon. Scholarly and popular discourses concernin... Read More about Putting the Premium into Basic: Slow-Burn Narratives and the Loss-Leader Function of AMC’s Original Drama Series.