Rhys J. Sandow
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rhys J. Sandow is involved.
Articles
2025 ‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’: Citizen jurors’ discursive framing of trust in international trade policy Journal of Language and Politics 25:3, pp. 405–429 | Article
One key consequence of the UK leaving the EU (Brexit) is that it now has full responsibility for making its own international trade policy. In this context, NatCen and the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy initiated Citizens’ Juries on the topic of trade policy. From the transcripts of these… read more
2024 How “U” are “U” words? Exploring variation in the usage and perception of class-based lexical shibboleths in British English English World-Wide 45:1, pp. 94–124 | Article
That U (upper-class) and non-U (non-upper class) speakers are identifiable through their vocabulary is an axiom in England. These claims are repeated in books, in print media, on social media, and in conversations regarding social class. However, such claims are seldom investigated empirically.… read more
2023 Maid in Cornwall: Social, stylistic, and cognitive factors in lexical levelling English World-Wide 44:2, pp. 157–183 | Article
While the research literature on regional dialect levelling is substantial (e.g. Williams and Kerswill 1999; Britain 2002; Watt 2002; Jansen 2019), this process is under-explored and under-theorised when it comes to patterns of lexical usage. Using maid as a case-study, in this article I provide… read more