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Dr Jack Wilson's Outputs (6)

A qualitative evaluation of the impact of a Good Life Club on people living with dementia and care partners (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Research suggests there is a lack of post diagnostic support to enable people living with dementia to fulfil social and active lives throughout their dementia journey. Gardening has been found to have many benefits for people living with... Read More about A qualitative evaluation of the impact of a Good Life Club on people living with dementia and care partners.

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

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.