Bethan L Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 1136314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bethan L Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bethan L |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2332-5839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The ‘action/inaction conundrum’ in early interventions to prevent extremism
This article conceptualizes the existence of an ‘action/inaction conundrum’ for practitioners delivering early interventions to prevent the onset of extremism among young people. At a time of heightened trepidation that government programmes are not performing well, as well as concerns that extremism itself has evolved and broadened, there is an allure to earlier intervention. Yet, practitioners refer to unintended consequences, such as labelling…
Principles we talk by
This paper takes two behavioural principles which have been suggested as explanatory models for human conversation, and tests them on a corpus of task-oriented dialogues (the HCRC Map Task Corpus). The principles chosen are Clark’s Collaborative Theory and Shadbolt’s Principle of Parsimony, which are both interested in notions of effort although they come from entirely different subfields of linguistics. The aim of the study is to compare the exp…
Evaluating evaluations
Participant evaluations have been at the heart of recent discursive (im)politeness research, yet despite their importance, there has been little consideration of how we identify such behaviours and how we can substantiate their worth in an analysis. In this paper, it is proposed that we need to distinguish between different, ordered, categories of evaluation because these provide different levels of evidence for participants’ understandings of (i…
Getting stuff done
Unity in disunity
This paper takes as a point of departure the website of the “Voices” project, a large media enterprise on languages in the UK conducted by the BBC in 2003–2005. With the help of the notions of language ideology and the analytical tools of multimodal critical discourse analysis, the paper shows how representations of languages on the website are a discursive terrain on which negotiations of national identities are played out. Essentially, the argu…
Grice's Cooperative Principle
Institutional apologies in UK higher education
A small corpus of student e-mail apologies to academic staff was collected in order to investigate the nature and structure of the apology act. The event apologized for can vary in two independent dimensions: whether it is internal to the discourse or not, and whether it concerns a past, present, or predicated future act. Much of the data consisted of apologies occurring alongside other acts: the apology was often not the main business. Why, then…
Communities of practice
Communities of practice has emerged as an alternative to other current sociolinguistic models such as speech communities and social networks, particularly in the area of language and gender. The valorization of non-linguistic behaviours as adding further explanatory power to sociolinguistic models is timely: it has often been implicit in linguistic study (through ethnography) but rarely been given recognition. However, the types of self-constitut…
Communities of practice
Communities of practice has emerged as an alternative to other current sociolinguistic models such as speech communities and social networks, particularly in the area of language and gender. The valorization of non-linguistic behaviours as adding further explanatory power to sociolinguistic models is timely: it has often been implicit in linguistic study (through ethnography) but rarely been given recognition. However, the types of self-constitut…
Getting stuff done
Evaluating evaluations
Participant evaluations have been at the heart of recent discursive (im)politeness research, yet despite their importance, there has been little consideration of how we identify such behaviours and how we can substantiate their worth in an analysis. In this paper, it is proposed that we need to distinguish between different, ordered, categories of evaluation because these provide different levels of evidence for participants’ understandings of (i…
Institutional apologies in UK higher education
A small corpus of student e-mail apologies to academic staff was collected in order to investigate the nature and structure of the apology act. The event apologized for can vary in two independent dimensions: whether it is internal to the discourse or not, and whether it concerns a past, present, or predicated future act. Much of the data consisted of apologies occurring alongside other acts: the apology was often not the main business. Why, then…
Unity in disunity
This paper takes as a point of departure the website of the “Voices” project, a large media enterprise on languages in the UK conducted by the BBC in 2003–2005. With the help of the notions of language ideology and the analytical tools of multimodal critical discourse analysis, the paper shows how representations of languages on the website are a discursive terrain on which negotiations of national identities are played out. Essentially, the argu…
Communities of practice
Communities of practice has emerged as an alternative to other current sociolinguistic models such as speech communities and social networks, particularly in the area of language and gender. The valorization of non-linguistic behaviours as adding further explanatory power to sociolinguistic models is timely: it has often been implicit in linguistic study (through ethnography) but rarely been given recognition. However, the types of self-constitut…
Grice's Cooperative Principle
Institutional apologies in UK higher education
A small corpus of student e-mail apologies to academic staff was collected in order to investigate the nature and structure of the apology act. The event apologized for can vary in two independent dimensions: whether it is internal to the discourse or not, and whether it concerns a past, present, or predicated future act. Much of the data consisted of apologies occurring alongside other acts: the apology was often not the main business. Why, then…
Unity in disunity
This paper takes as a point of departure the website of the “Voices” project, a large media enterprise on languages in the UK conducted by the BBC in 2003–2005. With the help of the notions of language ideology and the analytical tools of multimodal critical discourse analysis, the paper shows how representations of languages on the website are a discursive terrain on which negotiations of national identities are played out. Essentially, the argu…
Getting stuff done
Evaluating evaluations
Participant evaluations have been at the heart of recent discursive (im)politeness research, yet despite their importance, there has been little consideration of how we identify such behaviours and how we can substantiate their worth in an analysis. In this paper, it is proposed that we need to distinguish between different, ordered, categories of evaluation because these provide different levels of evidence for participants’ understandings of (i…
Principles we talk by
This paper takes two behavioural principles which have been suggested as explanatory models for human conversation, and tests them on a corpus of task-oriented dialogues (the HCRC Map Task Corpus). The principles chosen are Clark’s Collaborative Theory and Shadbolt’s Principle of Parsimony, which are both interested in notions of effort although they come from entirely different subfields of linguistics. The aim of the study is to compare the exp…
The ‘action/inaction conundrum’ in early interventions to prevent extremism
This article conceptualizes the existence of an ‘action/inaction conundrum’ for practitioners delivering early interventions to prevent the onset of extremism among young people. At a time of heightened trepidation that government programmes are not performing well, as well as concerns that extremism itself has evolved and broadened, there is an allure to earlier intervention. Yet, practitioners refer to unintended consequences, such as labelling…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)