Cardiff University

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

On mood and speech function and the ‘why’ of text analysis: In honour of Margaret Berry. Special issue of Functions of Language 26:1 (2019)

Edited by Lise Fontaine, Miriam Taverniers & Kristin Davidse

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

[Functions of Language, 26:1] 2019. | special issue

Translation in the Theatre: Special issue of Target 25:3 (2013)

Edited by Cristina Marinetti

Subjects Translation Studies

[Target: International Journal of Translation Studies, 25:3] 2013. | special issue

The Sociolinguistics of Narrative

Edited by Joanna Thornborrow & Jennifer Coates

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Studies in Narrative, 6] 2005. vi, 300 pp. | edited volume

Emotional Cognition: From brain to behaviour

Edited by Simon C. Moore & Mike Oaksford

Subjects Cognitive psychology | Consciousness research

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 44] 2002. vi, 350 pp. | edited volume

A Theory of Syntax for Systemic Functional Linguistics

Robin P. Fawcett

Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 206] 2000. xxviii, 360 pp. | monograph

Pragmatics in Speech and Language Pathology: Studies in clinical applications

Edited by Nicole Müller

Subjects Cognition and language | Language disorders & speech pathology | Pragmatics

[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 7] 2000. viii, 174 pp. | edited volume

Vilar-Lluch, Sara 2026 From trauma to reappraising life: Psychological crisis experiences and recovery in first-person accounts of life-changing injuries

Keywords: systematic metaphors | recovery | life-changing injury | traumatic accident | trauma | psychological crisis | post-traumatic growth

In: Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context, Leonardis, Irene (ed.) [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 20] pp. 68–89

Hines, John 2025 Of Angles and angels: Philology, history and the representation of identity

In: Germanic Interrelations: Studies in memory of Hans Frede Nielsen, Laker, Stephen, Carla Falluomini, Steffen Krogh, Robert Nedoma & Michael Schulte (eds.) [NOWELE Supplement Series, 34] pp. 103–125 | open access

Peraldi, Sandrine, Chris Fitzgerald, Geraldine Mark, Justin McNamara, Dawn Knight, Anne O’Keeffe & Tania Fahey Palma 2025 Doing meetings online: Understanding variation in virtual workplace meetings

Keywords: virtual workplace meetings | workplace discourse | register variation | corpus linguistics | interactional variation online corpus

Register Studies 7:1 pp. 130–160 | article | open access

Eklundh, Emmy & Sebastián Ronderos 2025 Studying affect through discourse theory: Towards a methodology of practice

Keywords: discourse theory | affect | practice | fantasy | transgression | Just Stop Oil | Milei

Journal of Language and Politics 24:1 p. 91 | article

Bolt, Mike 2024 Review of Constructing Brexit Britain: A Corpus-Assisted Approach to National Identity Discourse by Tamsin Parnell (2024)

Journal of Language and Politics 24:2 pp. 352–355 | book review

Giaxoglou, Korina & Tereza Spilioti 2024 “The EU gave us a new beginning”: Liquid racism and affect in a curated migrant story

Keywords: affective positioning | antiracist discourse | chronotopic affect | liquid racism | narratives-as-practices | storytelling

In: Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris & Villy Tsakona (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 341] pp. 181–201

Knight, Dawn, Anne O’Keeffe, Geraldine Mark, Christopher Fitzgerald, Justin McNamara, Svenja Adolphs, Benjamin Cowan, Tania Fahey Palma, Fiona Farr & Sandrine Peraldi 2024 Indicating engagement in online workplace meetings: The role of backchannelling head nods

Keywords: backchannels | response tokens | virtual communication | online workplace meetings | multi-modal corpus linguistics

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 29:3 pp. 389–416 | article

Droz-dit-Busset, Olivia & Tereza Spilioti 2024 “Getting personal with you”: Affect and authenticity in confessional videos of YouTube lifestyle and beauty influencers

Keywords: confession | affect | authenticity | YouTube | (affective) positioning | intimacy | vulnerability | multimodality | lifestyle and beauty influencers | social media influencers | content creators

In: Influencer Discourse, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar & Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 349] pp. 278–301

Vilar-Lluch, Sara 2024 The linguistic construal of extreme behaviour: Hyperactivity-impulsivity in family and teaching communities

Keywords: ADHD | hyperactivity-impulsivity | transitivity | behavioural processes | relational processes | lexical metaphor | appraisal

Language, Context and Text 6:2 pp. 390–417 | article

Wray, Alison & Axel Bergström 2023 Determiners of social inclusion and exclusion in the dementia context: The perspective of family carers

Keywords: dementia | family caregivers | social inclusion | communication | social reserve | emotional reserve

Pragmatics and Society 15:1 pp. 17–32 | article

Daniel, Rhianwen 2024 Standardization and vitality: The role of linguistic purism in preventing extinction

Keywords: linguistic purism | linguistic relativity | language standardization | China | anticolonialism | linguistic nationalism | nation-building

Language Problems and Language Planning 47:2 pp. 182–207 | article

Chrispin, Lucy & Lise Fontaine 2023 A cognitive-functional approach to watch as a verb of perception

Keywords: Aktionsart | perception verbs | watch | telicity | complementation

In: Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse, Gentens, Caroline, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor & An Van linden (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 230] pp. 209–236

O’Grady, Gerard 2022 Review of The Oxford handbook of language prosody edited by Carlos Gussenhoven & Aoju Chen (2020)

Functions of Language 29:2 pp. 237–246 | book review

Chianese, Francesco 2022 Italian items in domestic spaces: Representing Italianness through objects in the fiction of Helen Barolini and Chiara Barzini

Keywords: literary objects | Italian signs | domestic spaces | Italian diaspora | Italian American woman writing | cultural translation

Translation and Interpreting Studies 17:1 pp. 134–153 | article

Lambert, Joseph & Callum Walker 2022 Because We’re Worth It: Disentangling freelance translation, status, and rate-setting in the United Kingdom

Keywords: status | translation rates | income | professionalisation | translation profession | Uberisation | translation industry | freelance translation

Translation Spaces 11:2 pp. 277–302 | article

El Refaie, Elisabeth 2022 Creative visual metaphors of protracted and frozen time in autobiographical comics about depression

Keywords: graphic memoirs | pictorial metaphor | spatial metaphor | subjective time

In: Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity, Piata, Anna, Adriana Gordejuela & Daniel Alcaraz Carrión (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 75] pp. 101–124

Assaadi, Mashael 2022 The iconicity of emotive Hijazi non-lexical expressions of disgust: A phono-semiotic study

Keywords: icon | iconicity | vocalization | disgust | HNLE

In: Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, Lenninger, Sara, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg & Elżbieta Tabakowska (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] pp. 389–404

Naya, Ares Llop 2021 A microsyntactic study of Pyrenean negative emphatic polarity particles with the help of data from linguistic atlases

Keywords: emphatic negation | syntactic variation | minimizers | Pyrenean Occitano-Romance dialects

In: Syntactic Geolectal Variation: Traditional approaches, current challenges and new tools, Cerrudo, Alba, Ángel J. Gallego & Francesc Roca (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 34] pp. 109–146

Pablos, Leticia, M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Bastien Boutonnet, Amy de Jong, Marlou Perquin, Annelies de Haan & Niels O. Schiller 2021 Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching

Keywords: code-switching | conflict sites | nominal constructions | Papiamento | Dutch | event-related potentials

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. 211–236

Fontaine, Lise & Lowri Williams 2021 A preliminary description of mood in Welsh

Keywords: Welsh | mood | negotiation | responsives | negation | interpersonal | subject | finite | mood particles | functional description

Language, Context and Text 3:2 pp. 200–226 | article

Handford, Michael 2021 “I tell you don’t trust the French”: National stereotypes in workplace narratives

Keywords: national-stereotypes | business-meetings | workplace-narratives-as-practice | indexicality | identity | evaluation | power | discourse | corpus

Narrative Inquiry 32:1 pp. 218–243 | article

Gambi, Chiara 2021 The role of prediction in second language vocabulary learning

In: Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning, Kaan, Edith & Theres Grüter (eds.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 12] pp. 187–206

Lunati i Maruny, Montserrat 2020 Memory, mothers and post-Freudian melancholia in Mercè Rodoreda’s ‘Night and Fog’

Keywords: psychoanalysis | representation of the maternal | prosthetic memory | multidirectional memory | Post-Freudian melancholia | “desnéixer” | body | Holocaust / Shoa | twentieth-century Catalan literature | Mercè Rodoreda | Maria-Mercè Marçal

In: Discourses on the Edges of Life, Salvador, Vicent, Adéla Koťátková & Ignasi Clemente (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 26] pp. 147–166

Hines, John 2020 New insights into Early Old English from recent Anglo-Saxon runic finds

NOWELE 73:1 pp. 69–90 | article

Giaxoglou, Korina & Tereza Spilioti 2020 The shared story of #JeSuisAylan on Twitter: Story participation and stancetaking in visual small stories

Keywords: refugee crisis | small stories | stancetaking | story frames | participation

Pragmatics 30:2 pp. 277–302 | article | open access

O’Grady, Gerard 2020 Is there a role for prosody within register studies: And if so what and how?

Keywords: register | prosody | stratification | redundancy | realisation | context | system | phonological rank scale | potential | instance | articulation | spoken and written language

Language, Context and Text 2:1 pp. 59–90 | article

Kimps, Ditte, Kristin Davidse & Gerard O’Grady* 2019 English tag questions eliciting knowledge or action: A comparison of the speech function and exchange structure models

Functions of Language 26:1 p. 86 | article

Davidse, Kristin, Lise Fontaine & Miriam Taverniers 2019 Introduc​tion

Functions of Language 26:1 p. 5 | introduction

Hillier, Hillary, Robin Fawcett & Sheena Gardner 2019 Tributes to Margaret Berry

Functions of Language 26:1 pp. 15–27 | other

Pablos, Leticia, M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Bastien Boutonnet, Amy de Jong, Marlou Perquin, Annelies de Haan & Niels O. Schiller 2019 Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching

Keywords: code-switching | conflict sites | nominal constructions | Papiamento | Dutch | event-related potentials

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:4/5 pp. 710–735 | article

Kantara, Argyro 2019 Laughter and identity construction in political interviews

Keywords: laughter | election campaign interviews | politicians | identity construction

Journal of Language and Politics 18:3 pp. 420–440 | article

Tench, Paul 2018 Dodson’s classroom experiments in pronunciation

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 4:1 pp. 154–157 | article commentary

Chrispin, Lucy 2018 Signe Oksefjell Ebeling and Hilde Hasselgård (eds). Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions

Languages in Contrast 18:1 pp. 145–149 | book review

Mortensen, Janus & Nikolas Coupland 2018 Style and styling

In: Handbook of Pragmatics: 21st Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics, 21] p.  ff.

Singh, Jaspal Naveel & Tom Bartlett 2018 Negotiating sustainability across scales: Community organising in the Outer Hebrides

Keywords: scales | multilevel governance | islands | voice | community organizing | devolution

AILA Review 30:1 pp. 50–71 | article | open access

Sayers, Dave, Jamie Harding, Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, Michael Coffey & Frances Rock 2017 Speeding up or reaching out?: Efficiency and unmet need as policy priorities in Wales

Keywords: Discourse-historical approach | social exclusion | social policy | social services | Wales | Welsh Government

Journal of Language and Politics 16:3 pp. 388–411 | article | open access

Wang, Xuan & Sjaak Kroon 2018 The chronotopes of authenticity: Designing the Tujia heritage in China

Keywords: authenticity | the Tujia | China | heritage | chronotope | heritage tourism

AILA Review 30:1 pp. 72–95 | article | open access

O’Grady, Gerard 2017 Theme and prosody: Redundancy or meaning making?

Keywords: interpersonal meaning | Key | prosody | spoken discourse | Theme

English Text Construction 10:2 pp. 274–297 | article

Wray, Alison 2016 Mechanisms of conflict and aggression in the dementia context

Keywords: dissonance | communicative impact | conflict | processing

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 4:1 pp. 114–140 | article

Ljungberg, Jessica K., Patrik Hansson, Rolf Adolfsson & Lars-Göran Nilsson 2016 The effect of language skills on dementia in a Swedish longitudinal cohort

Keywords: Bilingualism | Dementia | Longitudinal design | Aging | Cognitive reserve

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:1/2 pp. 190–204 | Article

Wray, Alison & Mike Wallace 2015 Developing research expertise in applied linguistics: Capacity-building for today’s interdisciplinary challenges

Keywords: applied linguistics | interdisciplinarity | capacity building | research expertise

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 166:1 pp. 3–36 | article | open access

El Refaie, Elisabeth 2015 Scoring a goal or an own-goal against disease?: A multilevel framework for describing metaphor coherence in health campaigns

Keywords: health communication | Conceptual Metaphor Theory | comics | tuberculosis | metaphor coherence

Metaphor and the Social World 5:1 pp. 102–123 | article

Mueller Gathercole, Virginia C. & Kathryn M. Sharp 2014  The invisible gorilla of piecemeal, lexically-specific acquisition*

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:3 pp. 331–336 | article commentary

Stirling, Lesley, Susan Douglas, Susan Leekam & Lucy Carey 2014 Chapter 8. The use of narrative in studying communication in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A review of methodologies and findings

In: Communication in Autism, Arciuli, Joanne & Jon Brock (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 11] pp. 169–216

El Refaie, Elisabeth 2014 Appearances and dis/dys-appearances: A dynamic view of embodiment in Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Keywords: graphic memoir | the lived body | (verbo-)visual metaphor | cancer metaphor | dys-appearance | embodiment

Metaphor and the Social World 4:1 pp. 109–125 | article

Tucker, Gordon H. 2013 Review of Morphosyntactic alternations in English: Functional and cognitive perspectives edited by Pilar Guerrero Medina (2011)

Functions of Language 20:2 pp. 307–318 | book review

Marinetti, Cristina, Kaltrina Gashi & Maud Gonne 2013 Traduction et Théâtre: De la performance à la performativité

Keywords: interdisciplinarité | traduction et théâtre | performance | agent de traduction | performatif

Target 25:3 pp. 307–320 | translation

Marinetti, Cristina 2013 Translation and theatre: From performance to performativity

Keywords: interdisciplinarity | translation and theatre | performance | translation agency | performative

Target 25:3 pp. 307–320 | article

Heffer, Chris 2013 Narrative navigation: Narrative practices in forensic discourse

Keywords: forensic narration | rhetorical narrative | trial discourse | narrative practice | narrativity | identity navigation

Narrative Inquiry 22:2 pp. 267–286 | article

Thompson, Rose & Geoffrey Haddock 2012 Same story, different attitude: Do different processes in narrative persuasion influence general and personal evaluations?

Keywords: transportation | narrative persuasion | fiction | simulation | attitudes

Scientific Study of Literature 2:1 pp. 150–164 | article

Tucker, Gordon H. 2011 Review of English tense and aspect in Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar: A critical appraisal and an alternative by Carl Bache (2008)

Functions of Language 18:2 pp. 237–248 | book review

Bartlett, Tom 2011 Review of Linguistics: An introduction by William McGregor (2009)

Functions of Language 18:1 pp. 119–129 | book review

Sarangi, Srikant 2011 Public discourse

In: Discursive Pragmatics, Zienkowski, Jan, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 8] pp. 248–265

Sampson, Cathy & Paul Atkinson 2011 Accounting for discovery: Genetic scientists’ narratives

Keywords: scientific discovery | biography | accounts | narrative structure

Narrative Inquiry 21:1 p. 88 | article

Abousnnouga, Gill & David Machin 2011 Visual discourses of the role of women in war commemoration: A multimodal analysis of British war monuments

Keywords: multimodality | Monuments | commemoration | semiotics | women

Journal of Language and Politics 10:3 pp. 322–346 | article

Tench, Paul 2010 Review of Intonation in the Grammar of English by M. A. K. Halliday & William S. Greaves (2008)

Functions of Language 17:2 pp. 255–265 | book review

O’Grady, Gerard 2010 Review of Intonational phonology by D. Robert Ladd (2008)Review of A corpus-driven study of discourse intonation by Winnie Cheng, Chris Greaves & Martin Warren (2008)

Functions of Language 17:2 pp. 276–294 | book review

Coupland, Nikolas 2010 Accommodation theory

In: Society and Language Use, Jaspers, Jürgen, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 7] pp. 21–27

Coupland, Nikolas 2010 ‘Other’ representation

In: Society and Language Use, Jaspers, Jürgen, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 7] pp. 241–260

Mollet, Eugène, Alison Wray, Tess Fitzpatrick, Naomi R. Wray & Margaret J. Wright 2010 Choosing the best tools for comparative analyses of texts

Keywords: profiling | text analysis | quantitative analysis | lexis | variation

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15:4 pp. 429–473 | article

Wray, Alison 2009 Review of The origins of meaning: Language in the light of evolution by James R. Hurford (2007)

Functions of Language 16:2 pp. 298–308 | book review

Sarangi, Srikant 2009 Culture

In: Culture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 2] p. 81

Wray, Alison 2009 Identifying formulaic language: Persistent challenges and new opportunities

In: Formulaic Language: Volume 1. Distribution and historical change, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali & Kathleen Wheatley (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 82] pp. 27–52

Heffer, Chris 2008 The language and communication of jury instruction

In: Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics, Gibbons, John & M. Teresa Turell (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 5] pp. 47–65

Tucker, Gordon H. 2008 ‘Sorry to muddy the waters’: Accounting for speech act formulae and formulaic variation in a systemic functional model of language

In: Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing & Julia Lavid-López (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 85] pp. 395–418

Tench, Paul 2007 Carlos Gussenhoven. The phonology of tone and intonation

Functions of Language 14:2 pp. 261–277 | other

Hines, John 2007 The Writing of English in Kent: Contexts and Influences from the Sixth to the Ninth Century

NOWELE 50-51:1 pp. 63–92 | article

Müller-Saini, Gotelind & Gregor Benton 2006 Esperanto and Chinese anarchism 1907–1920: The translation from diaspora to homeland

Keywords: Esperanto | anarchism | China | language politics | language reform

Language Problems and Language Planning 30:1 pp. 45–73 | article

Müller-Saini, Gotelind & Gregor Benton 2006 Esperanto and Chinese anarchism in the 1920s and 1930s

Keywords: language reform | language politics | anarchism | Esperanto | China | communism

Language Problems and Language Planning 30:2 pp. 173–192 | article

van Leeuwen, Theo 2008 Three models of interdisciplinarity

In: A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity, Wodak, Ruth & Paul Chilton (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 13] p. 3

Jones, Raya A. 2005 Identity commitments in personal stories of mental illness on the internet

Narrative Inquiry 15:2 pp. 293–322 | article

Tench, Paul 2004 Processes of semogenesis in English intonation

Functions of Language 10:2 pp. 209–234 | article

Wright, Patricia 2002 If documents could talk: Contributions of spoken and visual language in electronic documents

Keywords: graphics | animation | synthetic speech | talking books | listening,reading | electronic documents | text-to-speech | modality selection | procedures

Document Design 3:1 pp. 70–79 | article

Lecercle, Jean-Jacques 2008 Of Markov chains and upholstery buttons: “Moi, madame, votre chien...”

In: The Motivated Sign, Fischer, Olga & Max Nänny (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 2] pp. 289–302

Baguley, Thom S. & Stephen J. Payne 2003 Given-New Versus New-Given?: An analysis of reading times for spatial descriptions

In: Spatial Cognition: Foundations and applications, Ó Nualláin, Seán (ed.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 26] pp. 317–328

Fawcett, Robin P. 2000 On the subject of the Subject in English: Two positions on its meaning (and on how to test for it)

Functions of Language 6:2 pp. 243–273 | article

Sarangi, Srikant & Stef Slembrouck 1998 Confrontational Asymmetries in Institutional Discourse: A socio-pragmatic view of information exchange and face management

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 11:1 pp. 255–275 | article

Tench, Paul William Dodson’s classroom experiments in pronunciation

Keywords: classroom experiments | pronunciation teaching

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation | Online First Publication | article

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