Melody Ann Ross
List of John Benjamins publications in which Melody Ann Ross is involved.
Articles
2025 On the skids: Mediating anguish, visibilising abusive places Broken: Towards a vulnerability approach to Semiotic Landscape research, Moriarty, Máiréad and Maida Kosatica (eds.), pp. 172–197 | Article
As a way of identifying places which visibilise vulnerable groups, this paper analyses stories of people living on Los Angeles’ Skid Row from their visual portraits posted on photographer Mark Laita’s YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly. Recognising the important role of oral narratives in the… read more
2023 Variation in the Fataluku voiced coronal (j) Asia-Pacific Language Variation 9:2, pp. 125–155 | Article
This paper represents the first variationist investigation of the voiced coronal phone (j) in Fataluku, a Papuan language of Timor-Leste. Here, we implement the Boruta algorithm at the front end of our analysis pipeline to quantify predictor importance, then use classification trees and… read more