Leigh Harrington
List of John Benjamins publications in which Leigh Harrington is involved.
Articles
2025 Plunged into fuel poverty: Fuel poverty and the (new) fuel poor in UK newspapers in the winters of 2019–20 and 2020–21 International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:3, pp. 376–416 | Article
Fuel poverty, a household’s inability to achieve thermal comfort in line with a healthy standard of living at a reasonable cost, became an increasingly prevalent and visible socio-economic issue in the UK during the 2020–21 winter lockdowns. Using FuelPovertyPressUK, a specialised corpus of UK… read more
2022 Narrative practices in debt collection encounters Narratives as Social Practice in Organisational Contexts, Van De Mieroop, Dorien, Jonathan Clifton and Stephanie Schnurr (eds.), pp. 173–195 | Article
Drawing on a corpus of 100 authentic telephone-mediated interactions from a British credit union, this paper is the first to examine narrative practices in debt collection encounters. It demonstrates that the credit union’s debt collector routinely invites and supports indebted individuals’… read more
2020 Chapter 2. Learning to manage rapport in GP trainee encounters: A discursive politeness approach Politeness in Professional Contexts, Archer, Dawn, Karen Grainger and Piotr Jagodziński (eds.), pp. 25–54 | Chapter