Browsing English Literature & Linguistics by Publisher "Elsevier"
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A brief self-rating scale for the assessment of individual differences in gesture perception and production
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)Gesture production and perception have a strong impact on speech perception and social-communicative functioning. Consequently, we created the 'Brief Assessment of Gesture' (BAG) tool, a set of 12 subjective statements ... -
A rating scale for the assessment of objective and subjective formal thought and language disorder (TALD)
( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)Formal thought disorder (FTD) is a core syndrome of schizophrenia. However, patients with other diagnoses, such as mania and depression amongst others, also present with FTD. We introduce a novel, comprehensive clinical ... -
Mediatized vernacularization: On the structure, entextualization and resemiotization of Varoufakiology
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)This paper focuses on the structure of mediatized discourses on the former Greek minister of finance Yanis Varoufakis, which are labeled Varoufakiology. Through a multimodal discourse analysis of cartoons and photographs, ... -
Nostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in Qatar
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)This paper deals with the discursive constructions of transformative, agentive and creative ethnolinguistic self-conceptualizations and positionings of some select members of the approximately 3000-member Greek diasporic ... -
Sociolinguistic anatomy of mobility: Evidence from Qatar
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)Abstract This is a sociocultural linguistic study on the ways whereby mobility is reflected upon in life narratives. An ethnographically informed sociolinguistic scale analysis shows that when residents narrate their life ... -
Sociolinguistic insights into chick lit: Constructing the social class of elegant poverty
( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)Aiming at suggesting ways whereby the sociolinguistic paradigm can benefit from the analysis of chick lit, this paper explores the ways through which the social class of “elegant poverty” is stylistically constructed in ...
