My brute areas of probing are in sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and discourse examine. My publications reveal b platform out:2009 on the unhurt ‘A Perceptual Dialect Map of North East England’. Journal of English Linguistics 37:2 pp.162-192. 2008 ‘Investigating the Collocational Behaviour of MAN and WOMAN in the BNC using Sketch Engine’. 2007 The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies. Corpora 3:1 pp.1-29. on the unhurt London: Routledge.
2006 (with Janet Maybin) ‘Literature and Creativity in English’. on the unhurt London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.3-48. In Goodman, Sharon and Kieran O’Halloran (eds) The Art of English: Literary Creativity. 2005 ‘Informalization in UK Party Election Broadcasts 1966-1997′.
Language and Literature 14:1 pp.65-90. TEXT 24:2 pp.245-265. (Winner of the 2005 Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) Prize.)2004 ‘The Marketization of Discourse all about Education in UK General Election Manifestos’.
2001 ‘”Getting Behind the Image”: Personality Politics in a Labour Party Election Broadcast’. Language and Literature 10:3 pp.211-228.
