University of Kent

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

Scott, Jeremy 2026 The rhythm of the humdrum and the clamour of the lambeg: Narratives, style, and Irish identities

Keywords: demotic voices | point of view | heteroglossia | narrative discourse | identity

In: Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson, Neary, Clara, Simon Statham & Peter Stockwell (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 45] pp. 243–252

Baxter-Webb, Ibi, Chi-Hé Elder & Eleni Kapogianni 2026 Fragile men and fishy arguments: Attributing and disputing offence in online interaction

Keywords: offence attribution | offence-taking | moral transgressions | plausible deniability | online interaction

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict | Online First Publication, 13 pp. | article | open access

Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni & Ibi Baxter-Webb 2025 Offensive humour: Theoretical and practical challenges

Pragmatics & Cognition 32:1 pp. 1–7 | introduction | open access

Kapogianni, Eleni, Chi-Hé Elder & Ibi Baxter-Webb 2025 The joke and the joker: Ascribing accountability for offensive humour in stand-up comedy

Keywords: offensive humour | accountability | comedic licence | audience reception | limits of humour

Pragmatics & Cognition 32:1 pp. 39–68 | article

Vari, Judit, Tamara Rathcke & Aleksandra Cichocka 2024 Perception of charisma in text and speech: The role of emotion dimensions and inclusive deixis

Keywords: perception | charisma | personality | leadership | emotions | emotional valence | emotional arousal | modality | person deixis | Brexit

Journal of Language and Politics 23:6 pp. 944–976 | article | open access

Wimmer, Lena, Gregory Currie, Stacie Friend & Heather J. Ferguson 2022 The effects of reading narrative fiction on social and moral cognition: Two experiments following a multi-method approach

Keywords: fiction | narrative | social cognition | empathy | morality

Scientific Study of Literature 11:2 pp. 223–265 | article

Piccinini, Page & Amalia Arvaniti 2021 Dominance, mode, and individual variation in bilingual speech production and perception

Keywords: bilingualism | language dominance | language mode | voice onset time | English | Spanish

In: Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children, Fernandez, Leigh, Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz & Shanley E.M. Allen (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 117] pp. 127–157

Reichl, Isabella & Eleni Kapogianni 2021 A delicate balance: Irony in the negotiation of refusals

Keywords: refusals | irony | interpersonal conflict | multi-turn approach

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 10:2 pp. 288–314 | article

Abbot-Smith, Kirsten 2020 Language disorders and autism: Implications for usage-based theories of language development

In: Current perspectives on child language acquisition: How children use their environment to learn, Rowland, Caroline F., Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge & Katherine E. Twomey (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 27] pp. 287–321

Piccinini, Page & Amalia Arvaniti 2019 Dominance, mode, and individual variation in bilingual speech production and perception

Keywords: bilingualism | language dominance | language mode | voice onset time | English | Spanish

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:4/5 pp. 628–658 | article

Reichl, Isabella 2018 Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts: New insights, new classification

Keywords: speech acts | refusals | historical linguistics | Early Modern English | stance | drama

Pragmatics 28:2 pp. 253–270 | article | open access

Kapogianni, Eleni 2016 The ironist’s intentions: Communicative priority and manifestness

Keywords: manifestness | speaker intentions | irony | primary intended meaning

Pragmatics & Cognition 23:1 pp. 150–173 | article

Thomas, Mike 2014 Atrocity stories and triumph stories: Using couple narratives to evaluate same-sex marriage and civil partnership

Keywords: same-sex marriage | civil partnership | comparative research | LGB studies | atrocity stories

Narrative Inquiry 24:2 pp. 200–217 | article

Forrester, Michael A. 2013 Mutual adaptation in parent-child interaction: Learning how to produce questions and answers

Interaction Studies 14:2 pp. 190–211 | article

Döring, Sandra 2008 Quieter, faster, lower, and set off by pauses? Reflections on prosodic aspects of parenthetical constructions in modern German

In: Parentheticals, Dehé, Nicole & Yordanka Kavalova (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 106] pp. 285–307

Veltman, Robert 1998 The silence of the words: Duality of patterning as a natural relation, not a barrier

Functions of Language 5:1 pp. 57–84 | article

Veltman, Robert 1997 Review of Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don’t by George Lakoff (1996)

Functions of Language 4:2 pp. 304–307 | book review

Veltman, Robert 1996 Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design

Functions of Language 3:2 pp. 275–277 | in brief

Godman, Arthur & Robert Veltman 1990 Language development and the translation of scientific texts

Babel 36:4 pp. 193–212 | article

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