University of the West of England

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of the West of England*

First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages

EditorMinna Kirjavainen, Ágnes Lukács & Virve-Anneli Vihman

Subjects Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] 2025. | edited volume

Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South: Special issue of the Journal of Language and Politics 23:1 (2024)

EditorMark Nartey

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Journal of Language and Politics, 23:1] 2024. vi, 153 pp. | special issue

Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives. Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 29:2 (2022)

Edited by Kate Beeching, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen & Anna Piasecki

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Cognition, 29:2] 2023. | special issue

Human Robot Collaborative Intelligence: Theory and applications. Special issue of Interaction Studies 20:1 (2019)

Edited by Chenguang Yang, Xiaofeng Liu, Junpei Zhong & Angelo Cangelosi

Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies

[Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 20:1] 2019. | special issue

Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French

Edited by Kate Beeching, Nigel Armstrong & Françoise Gadet

Subjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 26] 2009. xi, 257 pp. | edited volume

Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French

Kate Beeching

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 104] 2002. x, 251 pp. | monograph

Vihman, Virve-Anneli, Minna Kirjavainen & Ágnes Lukács 2025 First language acquisition in Finno-Ugric languages: Introduction to the volume

In: First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages, Kirjavainen, Minna, Ágnes Lukács & Virve-Anneli Vihman (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] pp. 1–17

Kirjavainen, Minna & Maija Surakka 2025 The acquisition of Finnish morphology and syntax

Keywords: Finnish | first language acquisition | morphology | syntax

In: First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages, Kirjavainen, Minna, Ágnes Lukács & Virve-Anneli Vihman (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] pp. 156–197

Schedlitzki, Doris, Sylwia Ciuk, Gareth Edwards, Hugo Gaggiotti & Harriet Shortt 2025 Drawing on translation studies to advance cross-language research in organisation studies: Enriching transdisciplinary dialogue

Keywords: organisation studies | cross-language research | inter- and intralingual translation | transdisciplinary collaboration | translatorial awareness

Translation in Society 4:1 pp. 58–76 | article

Nartey, Mark 2023 Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South

Keywords: critical discourse studies | political discourse analysis | political communication | gender and identity | voice and agency | discursive strategy

Journal of Language and Politics 23:1 pp. 1–20 | article

Nartey, Mark 2023 The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados’ prime minister Mia Mottley

Keywords: agency | Barbados | decolonization | critical discourse analysis | Global South | identity construction

Journal of Language and Politics 23:1 pp. 45–66 | article

Kirjavainen, Minna, Grant Howie, Luke A. Rudge & Lucy Nicholson 2023 The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership

Keywords: language ability judgements | interlanguage writing | linguistic bias | sympathetic native speaker | effect of errors

Journal of Second Language Studies 7:1 pp. 129–156 | article

Piasecki, Anna E. & Ton Dijkstra 2023 Cross-language influences in L2 pre-lexical and lexical processing and acquisition

Keywords: cross-language | L2 | sublexical | script | Second Language Acquisition

In: Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition, Elgort, Irina, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia & Marc Brysbaert (eds.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 16] pp. 126–151

Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo, Richmond Sadick Ngula & Mark Nartey 2023 The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians

Keywords: gender | solidarity | female members of parliament | parliamentary debates | feminist critical discourse analysis

Journal of Language and Politics 23:1 p. 91 | article

Beeching, Kate & Ludivine Crible 2023 Crosslinguistic paths of pragmatic development: The acquisition of actually and en fait by British and French children

Keywords: acquisition of discourse markers | L1 pragmatic development | intersubjectivity | English-French contrastive analysis

Pragmatics & Cognition 29:2 pp. 195–221 | article

Beeching, Kate, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen & Anna Piasecki 2023 Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives

Pragmatics & Cognition 29:2 pp. 181–194 | introduction

Kirjavainen, Minna & Alexandre Nikolaev 2023 Investigation into the linguistic category membership of the Finnish planning particle tota

Keywords: Finnish discourse particles | tota | planning particles | hesitations

Pragmatics & Cognition 29:2 pp. 370–393 | article

Nartey, Mark 2022 Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-historical analysis of populist performance

Keywords: critical discourse analysis | discursive strategy | discourse-historical analysis | Kwame Nkrumah | populist style | political discourse analysis

Pragmatics and Society 13:4 pp. 605–624 | article

Ganaah, John, Mark Nartey & Aditi Bhatia 2022 Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings

Keywords: critical discourse studies | political discourse analysis | legitimation strategies | revolutionary discourses | African politics | Jerry John Rawlings

Journal of Language and Politics 22:1 pp. 66–86 | article

Newbutt, Nigel, Louis Rice, Séverin Lemaignan, Joe Daly, Vicky Charisi & Iian Conley 2023 Co-designing a social robot in a special educational needs school: Listening to the ambitions of autistic children and their teachers

Keywords: autistic children | social robot | emotion | well-being | school | co-design

Interaction Studies 23:2 pp. 204–242 | article

Efthymiadou, Christina & Jo Angouri 2021 ‘I have her image of bringing me cherries as an offer’: Exploring belonging and trust in cross-border business collaboration through storytelling

Keywords: narratives as resources | iterativity | trustworthiness | trust | historicity | shared group membership | interactional histories

Narrative Inquiry 32:1 pp. 130–147 | article

Hanks, Patrick 2020 How context determines meaning

Keywords: lexical sets | meaning potential | valency | collocation | corpus pattern analysis (CPA)

In: Computational Phraseology, Corpas Pastor, Gloria & Jean-Pierre Colson (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 24] pp. 297–310

Webb, Stuart & Anna Piasecki 2020 Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning

Keywords: word writing | vocabulary learning | ecological approach

In: Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary, Webb, Stuart (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 109] pp. 73–94

Flook, Rebecca, Anas Shrinah, Luc Wijnen, Kerstin Eder, Chris Melhuish & Séverin Lemaignan 2019 On the impact of different types of errors on trust in human-robot interaction: Are laboratory-based HRI experiments trustworthy?

Keywords: human-robot interaction | trust

Interaction Studies 20:3 pp. 455–486 | article

Wang, Ning, Alessandro Di Nuovo, Angelo Cangelosi & Ray Jones 2019 Temporal patterns in multi-modal social interaction between elderly users and service robot

Keywords: human-robot interaction | ageing population | multi-modal user interface | social behaviours | service robot

Interaction Studies 20:1 p. 4 | article

Yang, Chenguang, Xiaofeng Liu, Junpei Zhong & Angelo Cangelosi 2019 Human robot collaborative intelligence: Theory and applications

Interaction Studies 20:1 pp. 1–3 | editorial

Murphy, James 2018 Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses

Keywords: action chains | apologies | conversation analysis | courtroom discourse | Leveson Inquiry | political language | public inquiries | remedial work

In: The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt & Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 96] p. 91

Webb, Stuart & Anna Piasecki 2018 Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning

Keywords: word writing | vocabulary learning | ecological approach

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 169:1 pp. 72–94 | article

Charteris-Black, Jonathan 2017 Conclusion

Metaphor and the Social World 7:1 pp. 122–129 | in brief

Beeching, Kate 2017  Alors/donc/then at the right periphery: Seeking confirmation of an inference

Keywords: donc | then | alors | Anglo-French | sense extension by analogy

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 17:2 pp. 208–230 | article

Murphy, James 2016 Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses

Keywords: courtroom discourse | political language | public inquiries | apologies | remedial work | conversation analysis | action chains | Leveson Inquiry

Pragmatics and Society 7:4 pp. 595–617 | article

Murphy, James 2015 Revisiting the apology as a speech act: The case of parliamentary apologies

Keywords: apologies | speech acts | political discourse analysis | participation structure | parliamentary language

Journal of Language and Politics 14:2 pp. 175–204 | article

Angouri, Jo & Evi Angelidou 2012 Managing the director’s views: Decision making in a small firm context

In: Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures, Măda, Stanca & Răzvan Săftoiu (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 17] pp. 61–82

Beeching, Kate 2012 Semantic change: Evidence from false friends

In: Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends, Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede & Stijn Verleyen (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 44] pp. 11–36

Weltman, David & Martin Upchurch 2010 The ideal of non-coherence in the World Bank’s social capital reforms: A textual analysis of “gratuitous complexity”

Keywords: abstraction | gratuitous complexity | utopian discourse | Social Capital | form-content division

Journal of Language and Politics 9:1 pp. 50–73 | article

Beeching, Kate 2009 Introduction

In: Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French, Beeching, Kate, Nigel Armstrong & Françoise Gadet (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 26] pp. vii–xii

Beeching, Kate & Richard Waltereit 2009 Introduction

In: Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French, Beeching, Kate, Nigel Armstrong & Françoise Gadet (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 26] pp. 195–199

Beeching, Kate 2009 Sociolinguistic factors 
and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken French

In: Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French, Beeching, Kate, Nigel Armstrong & Françoise Gadet (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 26] pp. 215–230

Rocks, Claire, Sarah Jenkins, Matthew Studley & David McGoran 2009 ‘Heart Robot’, a public engagement project

Interaction Studies 10:3 pp. 427–452 | article

Beeching, Kate 2008 Review of Les marqueurs discursifs dans les langues romanes by Martina Drescher & Barbara Frank-Job (2006)

Revue Romane 43:1 pp. 173–177 | book review

Beeching, Kate 2007 A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change

Keywords: politeness | semantic change | pragmatic particles | metonymy

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8:1 p. 69 | article

Jäckel, Anne 1995 Report on the Audiovisual Communication and Language Transfer Conference held in Strasbourg, June 22-24 1995

Babel 41:3 pp. 176–179 | article

Kirjavainen, Minna, Grant Howie, Luke A Rudge & Lucy Nicholson The detriment that error production creates is affected by non-L1 speakers’ linguistic group membership

Keywords: language ability judgements | interlanguage writing | linguistic bias | sympathetic native speaker | effect of errors

Journal of Second Language Studies | Online First Publication | article

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