RIF 2011-12

A Longitudinal Investigation into Lexical Retrieval and Oral Output Behaviour in Older and Younger Adults | PI: Dr Tess Fitzpatrick

This project will contribute to our understanding of the changes in individuals’ control and use of language through the life span, and specifically of language attrition in older people.  The research team will work on a subset of an existing dataset to produce fully informed and focused predictions of lexical retrieval behaviour in a healthy ageing population, against which the language behaviour of individuals with Dementia of Alzheimer’s Type (DAT) can be assessed.

Discourses of Specialness: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ (1950-1960) | PI: Professor Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

The Anglo-American special relationship still captures great political, popular and media imagination, particularly in Britain. Why does it do so? This interdisciplinary pilot project applies quantitative and qualitative methods in Discourse Analysis to archival and media records of Anglo-American relations in order to demonstrate the vital but hitherto analytically neglected role of language in the development and sustenance of a special relationship.

RIF 2010-11

• Visualising Re-Translation Variation: Othello | PI: Dr Tom Cheesman
• The Association of South-East Asian Nations’ New Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights | PI: Dr Alan Collins
• Looting Matters: Authority and Web 2.0 | PI: Dr David Gill
• From Citizenship to Security: Military Literacy and Young People | PI: Dr Helen Brocklehurst 
• A Survey of the Neath Abbey estates, 12th-17th Centuries | PI: Professor Daniel Power