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

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Jo Angouri

2008
Forthcoming. Foreign language use in the workplace: The case of Greek. Proceedings of the 1st World Socioeconomic Conference Greeks in Diaspora, ed. National Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research. Melbourne: LaTrobe University.

(with Nigel Harwood) “This is too formal for us…” A case study of variation in the written products of a multinational consortium.Journal of Business and Technical Communication 22, 38-64.

Kate Beeching

2007
A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8.1, 69-108.

La co-variation des marqueurs discursifs bon, c'est-à-dire, enfin, hein, quand même, quoi post-rhématiqueet si vous voulez : une question d'identité?  Langue Française, 154.2, 78-93.

Social identity, salience and language change: The case of post-rhematic ‘quoi’. In Wendy Ayres-Bennet & Mari Jones, eds, The French Language and Questions of Identity. London: Legenda, 140-9.

2006
(with Sara Mills), eds, Politeness at Work. Special issue of Journal of Politeness Research 1.2.

Politeness markers in French: quoi in the Tourist Office. In Kate Beeching & Sara Mills, eds, 143-71.

Synchronic and diachronic variation: the how and why of sociolinguistic corpora. In Andrew Wilson, Paul Rayson and Dawn Archer, eds, Corpus linguistics around the world. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi VIII (Language and Computers 56), 49-61.                             

Jonathan Charteris-Black

2009
Charteris-Black, J. (2009) ‘Metaphor and Gender in British Parliamentary Debates’. In K. Ahrens., Politics, Gender & Conceptual Metaphor. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 196-234

Charteris-Black, J. (2009) Metaphor and Political Communication. In A. Musolff & J. Zinken (eds.). Metaphor and Discourse. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave-MacMillan. Pp. 97-115

Charteris-Black, J. and Seale C. (2009) ‘Men and emotion talk: evidence from the experience of illness’ Gender & Language 3.1, 81-113

Seale, C., and Charteris-Black, J. (2009) Interviews and internet forums: a comparison of two sources of data for qualitative research. Qualitative Health Research

(with C. Seale, C. Dumelow, J. Locock, & S. Ziebland), The effect of joint interviewing on the performance of gender. Field Methods (forthcoming).

(with C. Seale), The interaction of class and gender in illness narratives. Sociology (forthcoming).

2007
The communication of leadership: The design of leadership style. London & New York: Routledge. 250 pp. ISBN 0-415-37829.

2006
Britain as a container: Immigration metaphors in the 2005 election campaign. Discourse & Society 17.6, 563-582.
(with C. Seale and S. Ziebland), Gender, cancer experience and internet use: a comparative keyword analysis of interviews and online cancer support groups. Social Science & Medicine 62, 2577-2590.

Review:
Francis A. Beer, & Christ’l De Landtsheer, eds, Metaphorical world politics. Metaphor & Symbol 21.2, 127-132.

Richard Coates

2010
A place-name history of the parishes of Rottingdean and Ovingdean in Sussex (including Woodingdean and Saltdean). Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (Regional series 2). Pp. vxiii + 222. ISBN 10: 0-904889-84-X; ISBN 13: 978-0-904889-84-0.

The traditional dialect of Sussex: a historical guide, description, selected texts, bibliography and discography. Lewes: Pomegranate Press. [In press.]

The sociolinguistic context of Brunanburh. In Michael D. Livingston, ed., The Battle of Brunanburh: a casebook. Kalamazoo, MI: The Medieval Institute, 283-302. [In press.]

2009
A strictly Millian approach to the definition of the proper name. Mind and Language 24.4, 433-44.

The Spanish source of the name of The Malago, Bedminster. The Regional Historian 19, 25-9.

The place-name Antrobus again. Northern History 46.2, 327.

The surname(s) Gooch, Gutch, Goodge, Goudge. Notes and Queries 56.3 (September) [254 of the continuous series], 347-349.

A natural history of proper naming in the context of emerging mass production: the case of British railway locomotives. In Wolfgang Ahrens, Sheila Embleton and André Lapierre, eds, Names in multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic contact. Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, 17-22 August 2008, York University, Toronto, Canada. Toronto: York University (published on CD, ISBN 978-1-55014-521-2), 209-27.

A glimpse through a dirty window into an unlit house: names of some north-west European islands. In Wolfgang Ahrens, Sheila Embleton and André Lapierre, eds, Names in multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic contact. Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, 17-22 August 2008, York University, Toronto, Canada. Toronto: York University (published on CD, ISBN 978-1-55014-521-2), 228-42.

ed., Journal of the English Place-Name Society 41 (2009).

Reflections on some Lincolnshire major place-names, part 2: Ness hundred to Yarborough. Journal of the English Place-Name Society 41, 57-102. [Part 1 is in Journal 40 (2008).]

2008
Three new elements in the minor toponymy of western Lindsey, Lincolnshire. In O.J. Padel and D.N. Parsons, eds, A commodity of good names: essays in honour of Margaret Gelling. Donington, Lincolnshire: Shaun Tyas, 259-69.

Names. In Richard M. Hogg and David Denison, eds, A history of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 312-51 [paperback edition].

ed., Journal of the English Place-Name Society 40 (2008).

Reflections on some Lincolnshire major place-names, part 1: Algarkirk to Melton Ross. Journal of the English Place-Name Society 40. [Part 2 in Journal 41 (2009).]

A linguist’s angle on the Star of Bethlehem. Astronomy and Geophysics 49.5 (October), 5.27-5.32.  DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2008.49527.x

The name of the island of Annet, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall. Ainm: Journal of the Ulster Place-Name Society 9, 27-38.

Reviews:

Simon Elmes, Talking for Britain: a journey through the nation’s dialects. London: Penguin (2005). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 29.2, 174-5.

David Griffiths, Andrew Reynolds and Sarah Semple, eds, Boundaries in medieval Britain. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology [Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 12 (2003)]. Journal of the English Place-Name Society 40.

2007

Shoreditch and Car Dyke: two allusions to Romano-British built features in later names containing OE dīc, with reflections on variable place-name structure. Nomina 30, 24-33.

Invisible Britons: the view from linguistics. In N.J. Higham, ed., Britons in Anglo-Saxon England. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press (Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies 7), 172-91.

Invisible Britons: the view from toponomastics. In George Broderick and Paul Cavill, eds, Language contact in the place-names of Britain and Ireland. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 41-53.

(with Seongsook Choi) Names in Shakespeare online (web-site; currently at http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/schoi/Shakespeare/search.php).

The place-names of Hayling Island, Hampshire. [Web-publication; 96pp.]

Yell. Journal of Scottish Name Studies 1, 1-12.

Bordastubble, a standing-stone in Unst, Shetland, and some implications for English toponymy. Journal of Scottish Name Studies 1, 137-9.

The genealogy of eagre ‘tidal surge in the river Trent’. English Language and Linguistics 11.3, 507-23.

Goldhwite: an unrecognized Middle English bird-name? Transactions of the Philological Society 105.2, 188-91.

South-West English dumball, dumble, dunball ‘pasture subject to (occasional) tidal flooding’. Journal of the English Place-Name Society 39, 59-72.

Azure Mouse, Bloater Hill, Goose Puddings, and One Land called the Cow: continuity and conundrums in Lincolnshire minor names. Journal of the English Place-Name Society 39, 73-143.

The Blorenge, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire/Gwent. Journal of the English Place-Name Society 39, 157-8.
                        
Azure Mouse, Bloater Hill, Goose Puddings, and One Land called the Cow: continuity and conundrums in Lincolnshire minor names. Working paper LxWP 21/07, Dept of English, University of Sussex. [Web publication: 51 pp.]

Linguistic light on the birth of England. Inaugural lecture, University of the West of England, 6 December 2007. [Web publication.]

Reviews:

Anatoly Liberman, Word origins ... and how we know them. Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press (2005). Modern Language Review 102.3, 832-3.

Jan Terje Faarlund, The syntax of Old Norse. Oxford, etc.: Oxford University Press (2004). Journal of Pragmatics 39.11, 2093-4.

2006
Morphophonemics. In Keith Brown, ed., Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, second edn. Oxford: Elsevier, vol. 8, 318-31.

Names. In Richard M. Hogg and David Denison, eds, A history of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 312-51.

Properhood. Language 82.2, 356-82.

Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Hārūn al-Rašīd. Nomina 29, 5-60.

Ludgate. Nomina 29, 129-32.

(with †R.L. Trask) A new early source of Basque: the Willughby glossary of 1664. Transactions of the Philological Society 104.3, 331-93. 

The pre-English name of Dorchester-on-Thames. Studia Celtica 40, 51-62.

Lichfield and Lytchett: a philological problem involving Brittonic */e:/ resolved. Studia Celtica 40, 173-4.

A Brittonic solution of the second element in Presteigne and Kinsham. Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 52, 49-64.

Afon Ystwyth and onomastic sound-change. In Joseba A. Lakarra and José Ignacio Hualde, eds,  Studies in Basque and historical linguistics in memory of R.L. Trask. [R.L Trasken oroitzapenetan ikerketak euskalaritzaz eta hizkuntzalaritza historikoaz.]Special number of Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca „Julio de Urquijo” 40.1/2, 265-71.

Chesterblade, Somerset, with a reflection on the element chester. Journal of the English Place-Name Society 38, 5-12.

Some observations on Blore, Staffordshire. Journal of the English Place-Name Society 38, 13-16.

Behind the dictionary-forms of Scandinavian elements in England. Journal of the English Place-Name Society 38, 43-61.

Stour and Blyth as English river-names. English Language and Linguistics 10.1, 23-9.

Michael Daller

2011
Daller, M.H., Yıldız, C., de Jong, N., Kan, S. and Başbaĝi, R. (in press). Language dominance in Turkish German bilinguals: Methodological aspects of measurements in structural different languages. To appear in Daller, M.H. (ed.). The measurement of bilingual proficiency. The International Journal of Bilingualism (special issue).

Daller, M.H. (ed.) (in press). The measurement of bilingual proficiency. The International Journal of Bilingualism (special issue, 2011).

2010
Daller, M.H., Treffers-Daller, J. and Furman, R. (accepted in principle) Conceptual transfer in narratives by Turkish-German bilinguals: the description of motion events in Turkish and German. To appear in in Bilingualism, Language and Cognition (CUP). ISSN: 1366-7289.

2009 
Richards B., Daller M.H., Malvern D, Meara P., Milton, J. and Treffers-Daller, J. (eds.). (2009) Vocabulary studies in first and second language acquisition: The Interface Between Theory and Application. Palgrave.

Daller, M. H. and Xue  J. (2009). English Proficiency and Academic Success: A Study of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education. In Richards B., Daller M.H., Malvern D, Meara P., Milton, J. and Treffers-Daller, J. (eds.) Vocabulary studies in first and second language acquisition: The Interface Between Theory and Application. Palgrave, pp. 179 - 193.

2007
(with Jim Milton and Jeanine Treffers-Daller), eds, Modelling and assessing vocabulary knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521878517.  288pp.

(with David Phelan) What is in a teacher's mind? The relation between teacher ratings of  EFL essays and different aspects of lexical richness. In Daller, Milton and Treffers-Daller, eds, 234-45.

(with Huijuan Xue/ June Snow)  Lexical richness and the oral proficiency of Chinese EFL students. In Daller, Milton, Treffers-Daller, eds, 150-64.

2006
(with C. Yıldız) Globalisation, business communication and the persistence of local business cultures. The case of Turkey, Russia and Western Europe. Journal of Politeness Research 2, 35-53.

(with David Phelan) The C-test and TOEIC® as measures of students’ progress in intensive short courses in EFL. In Grotjahn, R., ed. The C-test. Theoretical basis and practical applications (vol. 4). Frankfurt/ New York: Lang Verlag.

Was müssen DaF-Lerner können: Die Anforderungen der Berufspraxis.[What skills do learners of German as a Foreign Language need? The requirements of placement companies.] Zielsprache Deutsch, 5 – 20.  

Patrick Hanks

2007
(ed.  & intro.) Lexicology: Critical concepts (6 vols). London: Routledge, ISBN: 978-0-415-70098-6.

Syntagmatic preferences. In K. Ahmed, C. Brewster, and M. Stevenson, eds, Words and intelligence II: Essays in honor of Yorick Wilks. Hamburg: Springer.

2006
Metaphoricity is a gradable. In A. Stefanowitsch and S. Gries, eds,  Corpora in cognitive linguistics. Vol. 1: Metaphor and metonymy. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 17-35.

Jeanette Sakel

2010 
‘Grammatical borrowing from Spanish/Portuguese in some native languages of Latin America’ in Dik Bakker & Umberto Ansaldo (eds.) ‘Language contact with Spanish’, special Issue of Language Typology and Universals (STUF).

with Eugenie Stapert ‘Pirahã – in need of recursive syntax?’ in Harry van der Hulst (ed.) Recursion and human language. Studies in Generative Grammar series. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2009       
‘Mosetén y Chimane’. In Mily Crevels & Pieter Muysken (eds.) Las lenguas de Bolivia Plurales Editores; La Paz, Bolivia. (a short grammar of both languages).

2008
(with Yaron Matras) Modelling contact-induced change in grammar. In Thomas Stolz, Dik Bakker, and Rosa Salas Palomo, eds, Aspects of language contact. New theoretical, methodological and empirical findings with special focus on Romanisation processes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN: 978-3-11-019584-2.

2007
(with Yaron Matras), eds, Grammatical borrowing: a cross-linguistic survey. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN: 978-3-11-019628-3. 598pp.

Types of loans: matter and pattern. In Matras & Sakel, eds, Grammatical borrowing, 15-29.

Contact between Mosetén and Spanish. In Matras & Sakel, eds, Grammatical borrowing, 567-80.

Language contact between Spanish and Mosetén - a study of grammatical integration. International Journal of Bilingualism 11.1, 25-53.

(with Yaron Matras) Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence. Studies in Language 31.4, 829-865.

The verbness markers of Mosetén complex predicates. In Wälchli, Bernhard, and Matti Miestamo, eds, New trends in typology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 315-36.

On Pirahã and Everett’s claims about recursion. Invited letter to the editor in the section ‘Challenging Chomskyan Linguistics: Responses to Everett’. Human Development 50.6. [Web publication]

Jeanine Treffers-Daller

2010
Treffers-Daller, Jeanine, in press, Operationalising language dominance. To appear in International Journal of Bilingualism (special issue on measuring bilingualism).

2009
Treffers-Daller, Jeanine, Language dominance and lexical diversity: How bilinguals and L2 learners differ in their knowledge and use of French lexical and functional items. In B. Richards et al., eds, Vocabulary studies in first and second language acquisition. The interface between theory and applications. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 74-90.
  
Treffers-Daller, Jeanine, Code-switching and transfer: an exploration of similarities and differences. Handbook article in Barbara E. Bullock & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, eds, The Cambridge handbook of linguistic code-switching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 58-74.

2008
Treffers-Daller, Jeanine, H. Michael Daller, David Malvern, Paul Meara, James Milton & Brian Richards, eds, Knowledge and use of the lexicon in French as a second language. Special issue of Journal of French Language Studies 18.3. ISSN: 0959-2695. In this special issue: Françoise Tidball and Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Analysing lexical richness in French learner language: what frequency lists and teacher judgements can tell us about basic and advanced words, 299-313.

2007
(with H. Michael Daller and Jim Milton), eds, Modelling and assessing vocabulary knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521878517.  288pp.

 (with Françoise Tidball) Exploring measures of vocabulary richness in semi-spontaneous speech of native and non-native speakers of French: a quest for the Holy Grail? In: Daller, Milton and Treffers-Daller, eds, 133-149.

(with A. Sumru Özsoy  and Roeland van Hout) (In)complete acquisition of Turkish among Turkish-German bilinguals in Germany and Turkey: an analysis of complex embeddings in narratives. In Margaret Deuchar, ed. Cutting Edge Research in Bilingualism. Special issue of International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education 10.3, 248-276.

2006
(with Roeland van Hout and A. Sumru Özsoy) Oral language proficiency of Turkish-German bilinguals in Germany and Turkey: an analysis of complex embeddings in Turkish picture descriptions. In Hendrik Boeschoten and Lars Johanson, eds, Turkic Languages in Contact. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (Turcologica 61), 203-219.