The Bristol Centre for Linguistics at the University of the West of England

Recent publications (Bibliography)

Conference papers since 01 January 2007

(Co-presenters from UWE are in blue)

Angouri, Jo, ““[yea]hmmm yea of c[ourse]” Overlapping talk (OT) and gender identities in workplace talk”. Paper to IGALA 5, July 2008, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ.

Angouri, Jo, “”[hmm yea exactly my point]” Is facilitative overlapping talk (OT) perceived as facilitative by workplace interactants?” Paper to Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, 3-5 April 2008, Amsterdam.

Angouri, Jo, "Are Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) textbooks specific enough for learners to cope with corporate meeting talk?"  Paper to AAAL 2008, 29 March-01 April 2008, Washington D.C.

Angouri, Jo, & Kate Beeching, “Sociopragmatic competence and business textbooks” EPICS III, Paper to 3rd Symposium on intercultural, cognitive and social pragmatics, 20-22 February 2008, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain.

Angouri, Jo, M. Mathaioudakis & M. Zigrika], “Then how will they get the ‘much-wanted paper’? A multifaceted study of English as a foreign language in Greece”. Paper to 14th International Conference of Applied Linguistics on Advances in Research on Language Acquisition and Teaching. Greek Applied Linguistics Association, 14-16 December 2007, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Angouri, Jo, “You just have to jump in…A study of overlapping talk in business meetings”. Paper to 28th Annual International Conference. Department of Philology, 21-22 April 2007, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Angouri, Jo, “Their English is not good enough to work at an international level”. A study of the language skills of employees in multinational companies.   Paper to International conference on Corporate and Marketing Communications 2007, 16-17 April 2007, Middlesex University Business School.

Beeching, Kate, & Jo Angouri, “Sociopragmatic competence and business textbooks”. Paper to EPICS III, 3rd Symposium on intercultural, cognitive and social pragmatics, 20-22 February 2008, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain.

Beeching, Kate, « Bon: le mot de la fin? » Paper toColloque AFLS, 3-5 September 2007, Boulogne.

Beeching, Kate, “The application of a cognitive model to semantic change: ‘buttiness’”. Paper to 2nd Conference of the UK-Cognitive Linguistics Association, 27-30 August 2007, Cardiff.

Beeching, Kate,  “Procatalepsis and the etymology of hedging and boosting particles”. Paper to 18th International Conference of Historical Linguistics, 2-11 August 2007, Montreal.

Beeching, Kate, “Procatalepsis - a figure of speech?” Paper to Conference of the International Pragmatics Association, 9-13 July 2007, Gothenburg.

Charteris-Black, Jonathan, “Men and emotion talk: evidence from the experience of illness”. Paper to British Association of Applied Linguistics, 6th-8th September 2007, University of Edinburgh.             

Charteris-Black, Jonathan, “Gender & metaphor: Evidence from men and women experiencing illness”.  Paper to Tenth International Conference of Cognitive Linguistics, 15th-20th July 2007, Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland.

Coates, Richard, “Recent developments in the Survey of English Place-Names”. Paper to ICOS-23, 17-22 August 2008, York University, Toronto.

Coates, Richard, “Some observations on the Scandinavian toponymy of Lincolnshire”. Paper to 14th Nordic Onomastics Conference, 11-14 August 2007, Borgarnes, Iceland.

Daller, Helmut, & David Phelan, “Exploring the Yes/No format with aural and written stimuli”.  Paper to Models and Measures of Vocabulary Deployment (ESRC seminar series), 27-28 September 2007, University of Reading.

Daller, Helmut, and Jim Milton, “The interface between theory and learning in vocabulary acquisition”. Paper toEUROSLA  conference, 11 – 14 September 2007, University of Newcastle.

Daller, Helmut, “Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches for the measurement of lexical richness”. Paper toEUROSLA  conference , 11 – 14 September 2007, University of Newcastle.

Daller, Helmut, Jeanine Treffers-Daller, & Reyhan Furman, “Conceptual transfer in narratives by Turkish-German bilinguals: the description of motion events in Turkish”.  Paper to 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism, 29 May -2 June 2007, University of Hamburg.

Daller, Helmut, & John Turlik, “Vocabulary in academic English L2 writing of Arabic first language students – development and measurement”.  Paper to ESRC Seminar Series on Vocabulary Knowledge, 8-9 June 2007, University of Swansea.

Daller, Helmut, & Jeanine Treffers-Daller, “Convergence of language specific structures in narratives by bilinguals: the description of motion events in two languages”. Paper to 30th Annual Conference of American Association of Applied Linguistics, May 2007, Costa Mesa, California.

Sakel, Jeanette, “Language contact and recursion: the case of Pirahã”. Paper to ALT – workshop Language contact and morphosyntactic variation and change, 21 September 2007, Paris.

Sakel, Jeanette, & Eugenie Stapert, “Possible markers of embedding in Pirahã: evidence for recursion? “ Paper at the conference Recursion in Human Languages, 28 April 2007, Illinois State University.

Sakel, Jeanette, Uli Sauerland, & Eugenie Stapert, “Syntactic and Semantic embedding”. Invited presentation at the workshop Birdsong, Speech and Language: Converging Mechanisms, 19 April 2007, Utrecht.

Sakel, Jeanette, “Mosetén and Chimane argument coding”. Invited presentation at the conference on Argument coding systems in Bolivian Lowland languages, Centre d'Etudes des Langues Indigènes d'Amérique, 7 April 2007, Paris.

Sakel, Jeanette, “Integration of Spanish loan-verbs within the system of Mosetén verb classification”. Invited presentation at the COST 31 workshop Stability and adaptation of classification systems in cross cultural perspective, 7 March 2007, Jerusalem (read by S. Wichmann due to illness).

Sakel, Jeanette, “Pirahã language contact and recursion”. Paper to workshop Characterizing Human Language by Structural Complexity, 7 January 2007, ZAS, Berlin.

Sakel, Jeanette & Eugenie Stapert, “New evidence in the discussion on recursion in Pirahã’”. Paper to LAGB annual conference, 30 August 2007, King’s College, London.

Sakel, Jeanette, & Eugenie Stapert, “Language contact, mental verbs, the suffix –sai, the suffix –so/-ao and other issues regarding recursion in Pirahã”. Paper to workshop Characterizing Human Language by Structural Complexity, 29 August 2007, University of Manchester.

Treffers-Daller, Jeanine, “Vocabulary richness in French picture stories: comparing monolinguals, bilinguals and foreign language learners”. Paper to ESRC seminar Testing and teaching vocabulary in a second language setting, 6-7 July 2007, University of Swansea.

Treffers-Daller, Jeanine, Helmut Daller & Reyhan Furman, “Conceptual transfer in narratives by Turkish-German bilinguals: the description of motion events in Turkish”. Paper to 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism, 29 May -2 June 2007, Hamburg, Germany.

Treffers-Daller, Jeanine, & Helmut Daller, “Convergence of language specific structures in narratives by bilinguals: the description of motion events in two languages”. Paper to 30th Annual Conference of American Association of Applied Linguistics, May 2007, Costa Mesa,California.