University of Sussex

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Sussex*

On the Systematic Nature of Writing Systems: Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 26:1 (2023)

EditorDavid F. Mora-Marín & Lynne Cahill

Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Writing and literacy

[Written Language & Literacy, 26:1] 2024. v, 153 pp. | special issue

Orthographic Databases and Lexicons: Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 20:1 (2017)

Edited by Lynne Cahill & Terry Joyce

Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Writing and literacy

[Written Language & Literacy, 20:1] 2017. | special issue

Cameroon Pidgin English: A comprehensive grammar

Edited by Miriam Ayafor & Melanie Green

Subjects Creole studies | English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 20] 2017.  | monograph

Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis

Charlotte Taylor

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 267] 2016. xiii, 232 pp. |

Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use

Edited by Martin Pütz, Justyna A. Robinson & Monika Reif

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Benjamins Current Topics, 59] 2014. v, 214 pp. |

Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy

Edited by Dylan Glynn & Justyna A. Robinson

Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Semantics | Syntax

[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 43] 2014. viii, 545 pp. |

Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use: Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10:2 (2012)

Edited by Martin Pütz, Justyna A. Robinson & Monika Reif

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics

[Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association, 10:2] 2012. | special issue

Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series

Edited by Roberta Piazza, Monika Bednarek & Fabio Rossi

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 211] 2011. xi, 315 pp. | edited volume

The Structure of Time: Language, meaning and temporal cognition

Vyvyan Evans

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Philosophy | Semantics

[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 12] 2004. x, 286 pp. | course book

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Volume II: Selected papers from RANLP ’97

Edited by Nicolas Nicolov & Ruslan Mitkov

Subjects Natural language processing | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 189] 2000. xi, 422 pp. | edited volume

Robinson, Justyna A., L. Alan Winters, Rhys J. Sandow, Sandra Young & Caitlin Hogan 2025 ‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’: Citizen jurors’ discursive framing of trust in international trade policy

Keywords: concept of trust | trade policy | Citizens’ Juries | deliberative research | corpus linguistics

Journal of Language and Politics 25:3 pp. 405–429 | article

Arias Álvarez, Alba & María Turrero García 2025 “¿Otra vez con fame? ¡Menudo llambión!”: An approximation to linguistic attitudes in Asturias

Keywords: linguistic attitudes | Asturian | phonetic variation

Spanish in Context 21:3 pp. 484–511 | article

Sandow, Rhys J., George Bailey, Natalie Braber & Eddie O’Hara-Brown 2024 How “U” are “U” words?: Exploring variation in the usage and perception of class-based lexical shibboleths in British English

Keywords: social class | U words | lexical variation and change | production | perception

English World-Wide 45:1 p. 94 | article

Arias Álvarez, Alba 2024 Linguistic landscapes of activism: The fight for a quality public healthcare in Madrid

Keywords: linguistic landscape | activism | resistance | public healthcare | urban space

Journal of Language and Politics 23:6 pp. 896–919 | article

Forman, Jemma, Louise Brown, Holly Root-Gutteridge, Graham Hole, Raffaela Lesch, Katarzyna Pisanski & David Reby 2023 The Puss in Boots effect: Dog eye size influences pet-directed speech in women

Keywords: nonverbal communication | pet-directed speech | neoteny | voice manipulation | fundamental frequency

Interaction Studies 24:1 pp. 48–65 | article

Mora-Marín, David & Lynne Cahill 2024 On the systematic nature of writing systems

Written Language & Literacy 26:1 pp. 1–4 | introduction

Deng, Lin, Shengchao Yuan & Zheng Yang 2023 Media memory construction and cultural sustainability: A Chinese perspective on K-content media and its acceptance in China

Keywords: media memory | K-culture | cultural sustainability | K-content | collective memory | 媒介记忆 | 韩国文化 | 文化可持续性 | K-content | 集体记忆

InContext 3:2 pp. 52–70 | article | open access

Cahill, Lynne 2024 The standardisation of spelling in Middle English: The case of said

Keywords: standardisation | English spelling | spelling variation | intra-document variation | Middle English

Written Language & Literacy 26:1 pp. 131–153 | article

Taylor, Charlotte 2022 The affordances of metaphor for diachronic corpora & discourse analysis: water metaphors and migration

Keywords: metaphor | migration | diachronic analysis | discourse | collocation

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 pp. 451–479 | article

Piazza, Roberta 2021 Review of Ethnic subjectivity in intergenerational memory narratives: The politics of the untold by Mónika Fodor (2020)

Narrative Inquiry 32:2 pp. 456–459 | book review

Oakhill, Jane 2021 Children’s text comprehension: From theory & research to support & intervention

Keywords: reading comprehension | specific reading comprehension problems | teaching reading comprehension

Pedagogical Linguistics 4:1 pp. 1–25 | article

Korbak, Tomasz, Julian Zubek, Łukasz Kuciński, Piotr Miłoś & Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi 2022 Interaction history as a source of compositionality in emergent communication

Keywords: emergent communication | path-dependence | compositionality | Lewis signaling games | generalization

Interaction Studies 22:2 pp. 212–243 | article | open access

Sampson, Geoffrey 2020 An unaddressed phonological contradiction

Keywords: homophony avoidance | homophones | mergers | functional load | functional yield

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6:2 pp. 221–237 | article

Ozón, Gabriel, Sarah FitzGerald & Melanie Green 2019 Addressing a coverage gap in African Englishes: The tagged corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English

In: Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra, Ulrike Gut & Bassey E. Antia (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 88] pp. 143–164

Piazza, Roberta 2019 With and without Zanzibar: Liminal diaspora voices and the memory of the revolution

Keywords: identity | diaspora | liminality | hegemonic | narrative

Narrative Inquiry 29:1 p. 99 | article

Sampson, Geoffrey 2018 From phonemic spelling to distinctive spelling

Keywords: lexical distinctiveness | phonemic spelling | ideal orthography | logographic v. phonographic | script typology

Written Language & Literacy 21:1 p. 3 | article

Green, Melanie & Gabriel Ozón 2018 Information structure in a spoken corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English

In: Information structure in lesser-described languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude & Martine Vanhove (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 199] pp. 329–356

Cahill, Lynne & Terry Joyce 2017 Orthographic databases and lexicons: Introduction to the Special Issue

Written Language & Literacy 20:1 pp. 1–5 | introduction

Cahill, Lynne 2017 What are the “phonemes” in phoneme-grapheme mappings?: A perspective on the use of databases for lexicon development

Keywords: phoneme-grapheme mappings | lexical databases | lexicons | underlying phonology | lexical phonology | post-lexical phonology

Written Language & Literacy 20:1 pp. 104–127 | article

Sampson, Geoffrey 2017 Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater. 2016. Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing

Language and Dialogue 7:2 pp. 277–283 | book review

Mora, Joan Carles, James L. Keidel & James Emil Flege 2015 Effects of Spanish use on the production of Catalan vowels by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals

In: The Phonetics–Phonology Interface: Representations and methodologies, Romero, Joaquín & María Riera (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 335] pp. 33–54

Marinelli, Maurizio 2014 Chapter 1. Disembodied words: The ritualistic quality of political discourse in the era of Jiang Zemin

In: Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China, Cao, Qing, Hailong Tian & Paul Chilton (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 54] pp. 25–46 | open access

Robinson, Justyna A. 2014 Quantifying polysemy in Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Keywords: adjectives | decision tree analyses | hierarchical agglomerative clustering | logistic regression | semantic change | semantic variation

In: Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy, Glynn, Dylan & Justyna A. Robinson (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 43] p. 87

Taylor, Charlotte 2014 Investigating the representation of migrants in the UK and Italian press: A cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse analysis

Keywords: discourse | CADS | cross-linguistic | representation | migrants

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:3 pp. 368–400 | article

Leavens, David A. 2012 Pointing: Contexts and instrumentality

In: Developments in Primate Gesture Research, Pika, Simone & Katja Liebal (eds.) [Gesture Studies, 6] pp. 181–198

Racine, Timothy P., Tyler J. Wereha & David A. Leavens 2012 Primates, motion and emotion: To what extent nonhuman primates are intersubjective and why

In: Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language, Foolen, Ad, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine & Jordan Zlatev (eds.) [Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 6] pp. 221–242 | open access

Drivonikou, Gilda V., Alexandra Clifford, Anna Franklin, Emre Özgen & Ian R.L. Davies 2011 Category training affects colour discrimination but only in the right visual field

In: New Directions in Colour Studies, Biggam, Carole P., Carole Hough, Christian Kay & David R. Simmons (eds.)  pp. 251–264

Piazza, Roberta, Monika Bednarek & Fabio Rossi 2011 Chapter 1. Introduction: Analysing telecinematic discourse

In: Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series, Piazza, Roberta, Monika Bednarek & Fabio Rossi (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 211] pp. 1–17

Franklin, Anna & Paul T. Sowden 2011 Colour and autism spectrum disorders

In: New Directions in Colour Studies, Biggam, Carole P., Carole Hough, Christian Kay & David R. Simmons (eds.)  pp. 281–292

Hopkins, William D., Jared Taglialatela & David A. Leavens 2011 Do chimpanzees have voluntary control of their facial expressions and vocalizations?

In: Primate Communication and Human Language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans, Vilain, Anne, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry & Jacques Vauclair (eds.) [Advances in Interaction Studies, 1] pp. 71–88

Clifford, Alexandra, Anna Franklin, Amanda Holmes & Ian R.L. Davies 2011 Investigating the underlying mechanisms of categorical perception of colour using the event-related potential technique

In: New Directions in Colour Studies, Biggam, Carole P., Carole Hough, Christian Kay & David R. Simmons (eds.)  pp. 237–250

Parthemore, Joel & Anthony F. Morse 2010 Representations reclaimed: Accounting for the co-emergence of concepts and experience

Keywords: concept | conceptual spaces | mental representation | enaction | representation | sensorimotor profile | sensorimotor | symbol

Pragmatics & Cognition 18:2 pp. 273–312 | article

Leavens, David A. & William D. Hopkins 2008 Multimodal concomitants of manual gesture by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Influence of food size and distance

Keywords: begging | chimpanzees | communication | imperative gestures | manual gestures | pointing

In: Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller & Simone Pika (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 10] pp. 67–80

McGann, Marek & Steve Torrance 2008 Doing it and Meaning it: And the Relationship Between the Two

In: Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, conscious choice, and selective perception, Ellis, Ralph D. & Natika Newton (eds.) [Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 1] pp. 181–195

Leavens, David A. & William D. Hopkins 2005 Multimodal concomitants of manual gesture by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Influence of food size and distance

Keywords: manual gestures | chimpanzees | pointing | begging | communication | imperative gestures

Gesture 5:1/2 pp. 75–90 | article

Sampson, Geoffrey 2005 Quantifying the shift towards empirical methods

Keywords: empirical method | corpus linguistics | intuition

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10:1 pp. 15–36 | article

Jones, Steven & M. Lynne Murphy 2005 Using corpora to investigate antonym acquisition

Keywords: child language acquisition | speech | CHILDES | antonymy

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10:3 pp. 401–422 | article

Evans, Vyvyan & Andrea Tyler 2005 Rethinking English ‘Prepositions of Movement’: The Case of To and Through

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 18:1 pp. 247–270 | article

Chrisley, Ronald L. 2008 A view from anywhere: Prospects for an objective understanding of consciousness

In: Dimensions of Conscious Experience, Pylkkänen, Paavo & Tere Vadén (eds.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 37] p. 3

Woods, Nicola J. 2000 Archaism and innovation in New Zealand English

English World-Wide 21:1 pp. 109–150 | article

Jenkins, Aubrey D. 2011 Letter to the Editor

Terminology 4:1 pp. 157–159 | article

Plowman, Lydia 1996 Designing interactive media for schools: A review based on contextual observation

Information Design Journal 8:3 pp. 258–266 | article

Oakhill, Jane 1996 Gillian Brown, Kirsten Malmkjær, Alastair Pollitt and John Williams (eds.) Language and Understanding

Functions of Language 3:1 pp. 145–146 | in brief

Jenkins, Aubrey D. 1995 Problems in composing definitions of terms for polymer chemistry

Keywords: Polymer | Macromolecule | Nomenclature | Copolymer

Terminology 2:2 pp. 351–364 | article

Rogers, Yvonne 1993 Common-sense reasoning and everyday activities

Pragmatics & Cognition 1:2 pp. 307–340 | article

Elton, Matthew 1993 J. Ezquerro and J. M. Larrazabal (eds): Cognition, Semantics, and Philosophy: Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Cognitive Science

Pragmatics & Cognition 1:2 pp. 389–399 | article

Swann, Andrew 1993 Lenaťs creativity

Pragmatics & Cognition 1:1 pp. 149–160 | discussion

Cutler, Anne 1979 Contemporary Reactions to Rudolf Meringer’s Speech Error Research

Historiographia Linguistica 6:1 pp. 57–76 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.