Amanda Wray
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 98636 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amanda Wray |
| NOMBRES | Amanda |
| APELLIDO | Wray |
| FIRMA | WRAY A |
| AFILIACIONES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2144-4458 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 196 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Underperformance and failure in allied health practice placements
Underperformance and failure in allied health practice placements are under researched. This scoping review aimed to describe the experiences of allied health students and clinical educators relating to underperformance and failure on practice placement, supporting health professional training programmes to provide quality learning experiences. A scoping review research methodology including 22 allied health disciplines was adopted. Forty-four re…
Breaking down the silos
Her main research foci have been formulaic language
Determiners of social inclusion and exclusion in the dementia context
People living with a dementia and their family carers are at high risk of being excluded from the contact, activities, information and services that help them remain resilient. Using interview data from family dementia carers, this article explores the sources of enablement and inhibition in accessing these aspects of social inclusion. Carers and those living with a dementia are found to inhibit and enable social inclusion for themselves, each ot…
Brain fry’ in Just a Minute
This article combines the insights of an academic and a professional comedian, Paul Merton, in exploring how players attempt to mitigate cognitive overload or ‘brain fry’ in the popular BBC radio panel game Just a Minute (JaM). JaM requires players to present one minute of entertaining fluent spoken narrative on a specified subject, in front of a live audience. However, they have to navigate three rules: not to hesitate, repeat or deviate. These …
Formulaic Sequences
Formulaic sequences are strings of words jointly representing a meaning or function that is often, though not always, different from the literal meaning of the component words. There is evidence from clinical linguistics, psychology, and neurology that they are processed, stored, or accessed (or a combination of these) differently from other word strings that do not have the same “formulaic” properties. However, the extent of their presence in la…
Dementia and Language
Dementia refers to a set of conditions affecting aspects of cognitive processing, caused by damage to the brain's cerebrum. The cerebrum is composed of four major regions, or lobes, which between them manage higher mental functions including sensory perception, movement, memory, thought, recognition, attention, consciousness, and language. It also has two hemispheres, left and right, and while some functions, such as motor movement, are bilateral…
Holly Boswell
This article uses participant stories across four decades to historicize cultural shifts related to LGBTQ+ visibility and inclusion within western North Carolina. In particular, I wish to introduce readers to social justice warrior Holly Boswell (born 1950), a transgender activist and movement influencer who moved to Asheville, North Carolina, in 1976. Holly Boswell co-designed the transgender symbol, created one of the longest running transgende…
Multilingual dementia care
In multi-ethnic contexts, it is not uncommon to find that dementia carers or their clients are using, as the medium for communication in care, a language in which they are not comfortable and/or are not fluent. In extreme cases, there could be no shared linguistic code at all. This article asks how feasible it is to provide adequate care with inadequate mutual language knowledge. In particular, it challenges the claims of some care-providers that…
Eating occasions and the contribution of foods to sodium and potassium intakes in adults
Objective To examine dietary Na and K intake at eating occasions in Australian adults and identify the contribution of major food sources to Na and K at different eating occasions. Design Secondary analysis of 24 h recall diet data from the Australian Health Survey (2011–2013). Setting Nationally representative survey in Australia. Subjects Male and female Australians aged 18–84 years ( n 7818). Results Dinner contributed the greatest proportion …
The Language of Dementia Science and the Science of Dementia Language
Language is a balance of precision and flexibility, and scientific dialogue across disciplines faces challenges in how terms are used and how phenomena, including language itself, are described and explained. Taking dementia as its focus, this article offers linguistic perspectives on causes of inherent difficulty with terminological exactness. Attention is paid to the interface between the positivist imperatives of clinical evaluation and the re…
Mechanisms of conflict and aggression in the dementia context
It is proposed that conflict is an almost inevitable outcome, when, as in dementia communication, the delicate relationship between linguistic processing and pragmatics is upset. This relationship has been little researched, even though much is known about the two components in isolation. Making particular use of key observations and claims from the papers in this special issue, a macro-conceptualisation of the dynamics of conflict and aggression…
Dietary intake of working women with children does not appear to be influenced by hours of employment
Establishing the Reliability of Word Association Data for Investigating Individual and Group Differences
This article argues that, across different psychological contexts, the methods of data collection, treatment, and analysis in word association tests have hitherto been inconsistent. We demonstrate that this inconsistency has resulted from inadequate control, in previous studies, of certain important variables including the basis of norm comparisons, and we present a principled method for collecting, scoring, and analysing association responses, t…
Developing research expertise in applied linguistics
This paper explores the ambiguous nature of applied linguistics as a field of enquiry, to contextualise the interpretation of data from an empirical study into how research expertise in applied linguistics is conceptualised, and how it develops during an academic’s career. Key findings from the study include the importance of being willing to work at the boundaries of one’s knowledge, the capacity to communicate one’s ideas effectively, and the r…
Formulaic language
Creating a timeline for formulaic language is far from simple, because several partially independent lines of research have contributed to the emerging picture. Each exhibits cycles of innovation and consolidation over time: domains take a leading role in developing new knowledge and then fall back, while another area comes to the fore. Thus, some of the first observations about formulaic language, back in the nineteenth century, were in the clin…
Formulaic Sequences
A “formulaic sequence” is broadly defined as a string of words with a meaning or function different from that of its component parts and which, for that reason, is hypo‐thesized to be processed holistically.
Perspectives on Formulaic Language
Accelerating the development of Expertise
It is argued that future research capacity building for the social sciences needs to incorporate methods to accelerate the acquisition by researchers of holistic expertise relevant to their roles as researchers and as developers of others. An agenda is presented, based on a model of learning that highlights missing elements of current provision, and two approaches currently under development are described
Choosing the best tools for comparative analyses of texts
What measurements should linguists use when comparing texts written by different writers? We report aspects of a systematic evaluation of 381 different language measures derived from 200 analytic tools, carried out during the pilot for a study exploring genetic contributions to language variation. The measures covered lexis, structure, meaning, and discourse features, and were evaluated with a focus on capturing numerically the qualitative featur…
The puzzle of language learning
A new education policy for England, announced in Spring 2007, aims to introduce the learning of a foreign language to all children from the age of 8 by the year 2010. But there was a similar initiative in the 1960s and it didn't work then, so why should it now? This presentation explores the reasons underlying the belief that children can ‘naturally’ learn another language if they begin young enough, and considers reasons why classroom learning m…
The consequences of talking to strangers
One word or two? Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic interpretations of meaning in a civil court case
What relative weighting should be given to court case, to psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic explanations of an alleged offence? We review the case of an African-American plaintiff, who claimed that her receipt of work of a framed document with the title "Temporary Coon Ass Certificate" from a white mailer supervisory-level employee in the same agency constituted racial discrimination in the workplace. Dialect research conducted by JJS, as expe…
One word or two? Psycholinguistics and sociolinguistic interpretations of meaning in a civil court case
What relative weighting should be given to court case, to psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic explanations of an alleged offence? We review the case of an African-American plaintiff, who claimed that her receipt of work of a framed document with the title "Temporary Coon Ass Certificate" from a white mailer supervisory-level employee in the same agency constituted racial discrimination in the workplace. Dialect research conducted by JJS, as expe…
A formulaic approach to translation at the post office
Singing in Welsh, Becoming Welsh
This paper explores the adoption of aspects of Welsh social identity by members of an American college choir specialising in Welsh repertoire. Drawing on questionnaires, face-to-face and e-mail interviews, and recordings of the choir in performance, a picture is built up of the singers' attitudes towards Welsh people, culture and language, and their linguistic practices in relation to Welsh songs. Using the metaphor of 'turfing', in which a cultu…
The functions of formulaic language
The consequences of talking to strangers
Formulaic Language and the Lexicon
A considerable proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic'. It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems to be stored in fixed, or semi-fixed, chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language pathology and applied linguistics. It gradually builds up a unified description and explanation…
Protolanguage as a holistic system for social interaction
Formulaic language in learners and native speakers
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Formulaic language
Creating a timeline for formulaic language is far from simple, because several partially independent lines of research have contributed to the emerging picture. Each exhibits cycles of innovation and consolidation over time: domains take a leading role in developing new knowledge and then fall back, while another area comes to the fore. Thus, some of the first observations about formulaic language, back in the nineteenth century, were in the clin…
The Language of Dementia Science and the Science of Dementia Language
Language is a balance of precision and flexibility, and scientific dialogue across disciplines faces challenges in how terms are used and how phenomena, including language itself, are described and explained. Taking dementia as its focus, this article offers linguistic perspectives on causes of inherent difficulty with terminological exactness. Attention is paid to the interface between the positivist imperatives of clinical evaluation and the re…
Accelerating the development of Expertise
It is argued that future research capacity building for the social sciences needs to incorporate methods to accelerate the acquisition by researchers of holistic expertise relevant to their roles as researchers and as developers of others. An agenda is presented, based on a model of learning that highlights missing elements of current provision, and two approaches currently under development are described
Choosing the best tools for comparative analyses of texts
What measurements should linguists use when comparing texts written by different writers? We report aspects of a systematic evaluation of 381 different language measures derived from 200 analytic tools, carried out during the pilot for a study exploring genetic contributions to language variation. The measures covered lexis, structure, meaning, and discourse features, and were evaluated with a focus on capturing numerically the qualitative featur…
Singing in Welsh, Becoming Welsh
This paper explores the adoption of aspects of Welsh social identity by members of an American college choir specialising in Welsh repertoire. Drawing on questionnaires, face-to-face and e-mail interviews, and recordings of the choir in performance, a picture is built up of the singers' attitudes towards Welsh people, culture and language, and their linguistic practices in relation to Welsh songs. Using the metaphor of 'turfing', in which a cultu…
Apes, language and the human mind
Protolanguage as a holistic system for social interaction
Formulaic language in learners and native speakers
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Formulaic sequences in second language teaching
One important component of successful language learning is the mastery of idiomatic forms of expression, including idioms, collocations, and sentence frames (collectively referred to here as formulaic sequences). Three attempts to foreground formulaic sequences in teaching syllabuses are those of Willis (1990), Nattinger and DeCarrico (1992), and Lewis (1993). All three find themselves confronting the question of how the teaching of multi-word st…
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language
Language has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it emerge? The contributors to this volume - linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists, and others - adopt a modern Darwinian perspective which offers a bold synthesis of the human and natural sciences. As a feature of human social intelligence, language evolution is driven by biologically anomalous l…
The functions of formulaic language
Apes, language and the human mind
Formulaic Language and the Lexicon
A considerable proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic'. It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems to be stored in fixed, or semi-fixed, chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language pathology and applied linguistics. It gradually builds up a unified description and explanation…
Formulaic Language in Computer-supported Communication
A recent model of language processing in normal native speakers (Wray, 2002a) proposes that speakers reap substantial benefits from storing and retrieving prefabricated utterances from memory, rather than always constructing novel ones on line. Substantial evidence from a wide range of linguistic research is consistent with the model, but independent tests of its viability would be difficult to conduct. A small number of 'natural experiments', ho…
The Fall and Rise of Linguists in Education Policy-Making
Singing in Welsh, Becoming Welsh
This paper explores the adoption of aspects of Welsh social identity by members of an American college choir specialising in Welsh repertoire. Drawing on questionnaires, face-to-face and e-mail interviews, and recordings of the choir in performance, a picture is built up of the singers' attitudes towards Welsh people, culture and language, and their linguistic practices in relation to Welsh songs. Using the metaphor of 'turfing', in which a cultu…
A formulaic approach to translation at the post office
One word or two? Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic interpretations of meaning in a civil court case
What relative weighting should be given to court case, to psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic explanations of an alleged offence? We review the case of an African-American plaintiff, who claimed that her receipt of work of a framed document with the title "Temporary Coon Ass Certificate" from a white mailer supervisory-level employee in the same agency constituted racial discrimination in the workplace. Dialect research conducted by JJS, as expe…
One word or two? Psycholinguistics and sociolinguistic interpretations of meaning in a civil court case
What relative weighting should be given to court case, to psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic explanations of an alleged offence? We review the case of an African-American plaintiff, who claimed that her receipt of work of a framed document with the title "Temporary Coon Ass Certificate" from a white mailer supervisory-level employee in the same agency constituted racial discrimination in the workplace. Dialect research conducted by JJS, as expe…
The consequences of talking to strangers
The puzzle of language learning
A new education policy for England, announced in Spring 2007, aims to introduce the learning of a foreign language to all children from the age of 8 by the year 2010. But there was a similar initiative in the 1960s and it didn't work then, so why should it now? This presentation explores the reasons underlying the belief that children can ‘naturally’ learn another language if they begin young enough, and considers reasons why classroom learning m…
Choosing the best tools for comparative analyses of texts
What measurements should linguists use when comparing texts written by different writers? We report aspects of a systematic evaluation of 381 different language measures derived from 200 analytic tools, carried out during the pilot for a study exploring genetic contributions to language variation. The measures covered lexis, structure, meaning, and discourse features, and were evaluated with a focus on capturing numerically the qualitative featur…
Perspectives on Formulaic Language
Accelerating the development of Expertise
It is argued that future research capacity building for the social sciences needs to incorporate methods to accelerate the acquisition by researchers of holistic expertise relevant to their roles as researchers and as developers of others. An agenda is presented, based on a model of learning that highlights missing elements of current provision, and two approaches currently under development are described
Formulaic Sequences
A “formulaic sequence” is broadly defined as a string of words with a meaning or function different from that of its component parts and which, for that reason, is hypo‐thesized to be processed holistically.
Formulaic language
Creating a timeline for formulaic language is far from simple, because several partially independent lines of research have contributed to the emerging picture. Each exhibits cycles of innovation and consolidation over time: domains take a leading role in developing new knowledge and then fall back, while another area comes to the fore. Thus, some of the first observations about formulaic language, back in the nineteenth century, were in the clin…
Establishing the Reliability of Word Association Data for Investigating Individual and Group Differences
This article argues that, across different psychological contexts, the methods of data collection, treatment, and analysis in word association tests have hitherto been inconsistent. We demonstrate that this inconsistency has resulted from inadequate control, in previous studies, of certain important variables including the basis of norm comparisons, and we present a principled method for collecting, scoring, and analysing association responses, t…
Developing research expertise in applied linguistics
This paper explores the ambiguous nature of applied linguistics as a field of enquiry, to contextualise the interpretation of data from an empirical study into how research expertise in applied linguistics is conceptualised, and how it develops during an academic’s career. Key findings from the study include the importance of being willing to work at the boundaries of one’s knowledge, the capacity to communicate one’s ideas effectively, and the r…
Mechanisms of conflict and aggression in the dementia context
It is proposed that conflict is an almost inevitable outcome, when, as in dementia communication, the delicate relationship between linguistic processing and pragmatics is upset. This relationship has been little researched, even though much is known about the two components in isolation. Making particular use of key observations and claims from the papers in this special issue, a macro-conceptualisation of the dynamics of conflict and aggression…
Dietary intake of working women with children does not appear to be influenced by hours of employment
The Language of Dementia Science and the Science of Dementia Language
Language is a balance of precision and flexibility, and scientific dialogue across disciplines faces challenges in how terms are used and how phenomena, including language itself, are described and explained. Taking dementia as its focus, this article offers linguistic perspectives on causes of inherent difficulty with terminological exactness. Attention is paid to the interface between the positivist imperatives of clinical evaluation and the re…
Linguistics (24 obras) · Psychology (24 obras) · Computer Science (17 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Philosophy (12 obras) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (9 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Dementia (6 obras)