Roger Berry
Biographic Data
| ID | 114427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Berry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Berry |
| SIGNATURE | BERRY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sunderland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2372-1316 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
We hardly need to use our ears: Video, audio and the shaping of the podcast medium in the 2020s
In 1979, the British pop band The Buggles released ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’, generating a provocation used to explain change (where x killed y). Two years later, the song’s video was used to launch MTV, marking a change in how audiences consumed music. It is not the title that is of interest here, but a line in the track that suggests in the age of video, that we no longer need to use our ears. Although the open standard of podcasting has me…
No longer the only game in town: British indies, podcasts and the new audio economy of independent production
The world of audio is undergoing seismic changes. Traditionally a space dominated by linear radio programmes, in the 2020s this form of listening remains relevant but is now being challenged by other forms and global media platforms. In particular, podcasting offers producers opportunities to pitch for commissions from brands and platforms or to make work independently. Historically, podcasting was a medium led and shaped by amateurs and distribu…
Podcasting in Transition: Formalization and Its Discontents
Podcasting has thrived since its popularization in 2004 as a bastion for amateur media production. Over the past ten years, however, entrepreneurs and legacy media companies have rapidly expanded their interests in podcasting, bringing with them professional standards and the logics of capital. Breakout hits such as 2014’s Serial (with nearly 40 million downloads) and This American Life have demonstrated to both programmers and advertisers the po…
Radio, music, podcasts – BBC Sounds: Public service radio and podcasts in a platform world
In 2018, the BBC announced plans to replace their long-established ‘iPlayer Radio’ service with a new platform called BBC Sounds. The new service was promoted as a single space where listeners can consume BBC radio, music and podcasts, creating a single point of interaction between audiences and content. This is, however, far more than an exercise in reframing public service radio content in a new app; it is also a practical application of these …
Podcasting: Considering the evolution of the medium and its association with the word 'radio
When evaluating any new medium or technology we often turn to the familiar as a point of reference. Podcasting was no different, drawing obvious comparisons with radio. While there are traits within all podcasts that are radiogenic, one must also consider whether such distinctions are beneficial to the medium. Indeed, one might argue that when one considers the manner in which podcasts are created and consumed then there is an increasing sense in…
A Golden Age of Podcasting? Evaluating Serial in the Context of Podcast Histories
This article considers the 2014 podcast Serial within a context of technical change and podcast histories. Building on previous work, the author argues that Serial is a significant moment in the history of podcasting. Recent trends have shifted podcasts from iPods to networked screen-based mobile devices in smartphones and connected dashboards, locations where global brands enjoy a significant advantage. It is in this context that the author plac…
Grammar myths
This paper looks at the continued survival of ‘myths’ about English grammar, for example, the statement that in negative and interrogative sentences any should be used instead of some. It is based on a survey of 195 Hong Kong students majoring in English, in five different cohorts, which found that such myths are quite prevalent; with choices of ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘don't know’ and ‘partly true’, the true option was chosen in over 50% of cases. Diff…
Better the Devil: A Response to Gus O'Donnell's ‘Better Government’
Gus O'Donnell's vision of ‘better government’ is presented as a critique of party politics, most specifically the short‐termism, selfishness and incompetence of elected politicians. There are few people better placed than O'Donnell to form such judgements. However, O'Donnell goes much further, by calling into question the legitimacy of the democratic system which gives rise to party politics. His article outlines several mechanisms by which the e…
Radio with pictures: Radio visualization in BBC national radio
It is popular to claim that radio has always had pictures – the ones listeners created in their own minds – and this is often seen as one of the medium’s greatest strengths. The process of visualization of radio in the digital age has most often focused on how producers can fill the screen of the various devices through which we receive radio today. This article focuses on the other ways in which radio is visualized online, in a process that depl…
EFL majors' knowledge of metalinguistic terminology: A comparative study
Two hundred and ninety-six English majors at universities in Poland, Austria and Hong Kong were given a 50-item questionnaire designed to evaluate their knowledge of grammatical terminology. The main aim was to identify whether the three populations were subject to differing ‘terminological cultures’. This was found to be substantially the case; for example, the term indefinite article was known by 95% of Polish students but only 29% of the Hong …
You could say that: The generic second-person pronoun in modern English
An examination of a function of the second person pronoun frequently forgotten in pedagogical grammars of English. A lawyer friend told me the following story about a court case in Hong Kong that he had taken part in. His client was in the witness box and was answering questions in Cantonese while an interpreter relayed his words in English to a judge who was not Chinese. At one point the opposing counsel put a point that was detrimental to the c…
Will the iPod Kill the Radio Star? Profiling Podcasting as Radio
The Apple iPod has not only become a ‘must have’ style accessory for the ‘wirefree’ generation but has also revolutionized the way we consume music. At the time of writing, (November 2005) the revolution has already started in the audio world, and has been going for the last 18 months. ‘Podcasting’ allows anyone with a PC to create a ‘radio’ programme and distribute it freely, through the internet to the portable MP3 players of subscribers around…
Who Do They Think ‘We’ Is? Learners’ Awareness of Personality in Pedagogic Grammars
This paper investigates L2 English learners’ reactions to mixed personality in a pedagogic grammar. Personality refers to how authors represent themselves in a text and interact with their readers (e.g. personally via the use of personal pronouns or impersonally via the use of the passive, etc.); mixed personality occurs when an author switches from one option to another. In an experiment, 195 students from Hong Kong and Poland were asked to read…
Making the Most of Metalanguage
Metalanguage is a term that is increasingly to be found in the applied linguistic/ language awareness literature. However, not all writers use it in the same way; some seem to be equating it with metalinguistic terminology. Tracing the term from its philosophical roots, this paper accepts a broader definition of metalanguage as 'language about language'(where terminology is viewed as the lexis); at the same time it distinguishes it from metadisco…
Awareness of Metalanguage
This paper reports an investigation into the language used by writers of grammars of English and learners' awareness of it. Two key features of this genre are whether and how writers present themselves in the text ('personality') and whether and to what extent they qualify their statements via the use of modality. Two comparable texts, one from a pedagogic grammar and one from a scholarly grammar were given to university learners of English in or…
We in Hong Kong: Claiming to Speak for the Community
In the run-up to the handover in Hong Kong in 1997 there was much debate about its future identity. Many “experts” and politicians put forward views that purported to be representative of Hong Kong people. One linguistic feature in this debate was the use of the pronoun we when referring to the entire community. This paper reports a survey which examined the use of this “generic” we and other first person plural pronouns in political comment in t…
Determiners: A class apart
Some problems encountered in the compilation of ‘Collins COBUILD English Guides 10: Determiners and Quantifiers’
Teachers’ awareness of learners’ knowledge: The case of metalinguistic terminology
This paper describes a study which investigated the knowledge of metalinguistic terminology in a group of 372 first‐year undergraduates in a tertiary institution in Hong Kong and compared this to their English teachers’ estimation of that knowledge and desire to use such terminology. It found (1) wide differences between learners in their knowledge of terminology; and, (2) wide discrepancies between this and the teachers’ expectations, some of wh…
A case study in parliamentary influence: The civil rights (disabled persons) bill
The role of language improvement in in-service teacher training: Killing two birds with one stone
Public Policy and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Ian Little
Journal Article Public Policy and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Ian Little Get access Public Policy and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Ian Little. Edited by MAURICE SCOTT and DEEPAK LAL. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. xviii + 396. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828582 5). Roger Berry Roger Berry University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, …
Classical and Marxian Political Economy: Essays in Honour of Ronald L. Meek
Journal Article Classical and Marxian Political Economy: Essays in Honour of Ronald L. Meek Get access Classical and Marxian Political Economy: Essays in Honour of Ronald L. Meek. Edited by IAN BRADLEY and MICHAEL HOWARD. (London: Macmillan, I982. Pp. xiv + 300. £10.95.) Roger Berry Roger Berry University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 369, 1 March 1983, P…
Trade and Growth of the Advanced Developing Countries in the Pacific Basin
Journal Article Trade and Growth of the Advanced Developing Countries in the Pacific Basin Get access Trade and Growth of the Advanced Developing Countries in the Pacific Basin. Edited by WoNTACK HoNG and LAWRENCE B. KRAUSE. (Seoul: Korea Development Institute, 1981. Pp. xii + 620.) Roger Berry Roger Berry University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 369, 1 M…
Redistribution, demand structure and factor requirements: The case of India
John Adams: Two Further Contributions to the Boston Gazette, 1766-1768
Podcasting: Considering the evolution of the medium and its association with the word 'radio
When evaluating any new medium or technology we often turn to the familiar as a point of reference. Podcasting was no different, drawing obvious comparisons with radio. While there are traits within all podcasts that are radiogenic, one must also consider whether such distinctions are beneficial to the medium. Indeed, one might argue that when one considers the manner in which podcasts are created and consumed then there is an increasing sense in…
Trade and Growth of the Advanced Developing Countries in the Pacific Basin
Journal Article Trade and Growth of the Advanced Developing Countries in the Pacific Basin Get access Trade and Growth of the Advanced Developing Countries in the Pacific Basin. Edited by WoNTACK HoNG and LAWRENCE B. KRAUSE. (Seoul: Korea Development Institute, 1981. Pp. xii + 620.) Roger Berry Roger Berry University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 369, 1 M…
Making the Most of Metalanguage
Metalanguage is a term that is increasingly to be found in the applied linguistic/ language awareness literature. However, not all writers use it in the same way; some seem to be equating it with metalinguistic terminology. Tracing the term from its philosophical roots, this paper accepts a broader definition of metalanguage as 'language about language'(where terminology is viewed as the lexis); at the same time it distinguishes it from metadisco…
Radio, music, podcasts – BBC Sounds: Public service radio and podcasts in a platform world
In 2018, the BBC announced plans to replace their long-established ‘iPlayer Radio’ service with a new platform called BBC Sounds. The new service was promoted as a single space where listeners can consume BBC radio, music and podcasts, creating a single point of interaction between audiences and content. This is, however, far more than an exercise in reframing public service radio content in a new app; it is also a practical application of these …
Classical and Marxian Political Economy: Essays in Honour of Ronald L. Meek
Journal Article Classical and Marxian Political Economy: Essays in Honour of Ronald L. Meek Get access Classical and Marxian Political Economy: Essays in Honour of Ronald L. Meek. Edited by IAN BRADLEY and MICHAEL HOWARD. (London: Macmillan, I982. Pp. xiv + 300. £10.95.) Roger Berry Roger Berry University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 369, 1 March 1983, P…
Radio with pictures: Radio visualization in BBC national radio
It is popular to claim that radio has always had pictures – the ones listeners created in their own minds – and this is often seen as one of the medium’s greatest strengths. The process of visualization of radio in the digital age has most often focused on how producers can fill the screen of the various devices through which we receive radio today. This article focuses on the other ways in which radio is visualized online, in a process that depl…
The role of language improvement in in-service teacher training: Killing two birds with one stone
Public Policy and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Ian Little
Journal Article Public Policy and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Ian Little Get access Public Policy and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Ian Little. Edited by MAURICE SCOTT and DEEPAK LAL. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. xviii + 396. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828582 5). Roger Berry Roger Berry University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, …
We hardly need to use our ears: Video, audio and the shaping of the podcast medium in the 2020s
In 1979, the British pop band The Buggles released ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’, generating a provocation used to explain change (where x killed y). Two years later, the song’s video was used to launch MTV, marking a change in how audiences consumed music. It is not the title that is of interest here, but a line in the track that suggests in the age of video, that we no longer need to use our ears. Although the open standard of podcasting has me…
A case study in parliamentary influence: The civil rights (disabled persons) bill
Rehabilitation of the Older Worker
John Adams: Two Further Contributions to the Boston Gazette, 1766-1768
Redistribution, demand structure and factor requirements: The case of India
Classical and Marxian Political Economy: Essays in Honour of Ronald L. Meek
Journal Article Classical and Marxian Political Economy: Essays in Honour of Ronald L. Meek Get access Classical and Marxian Political Economy: Essays in Honour of Ronald L. Meek. Edited by IAN BRADLEY and MICHAEL HOWARD. (London: Macmillan, I982. Pp. xiv + 300. £10.95.) Roger Berry Roger Berry University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 369, 1 March 1983, P…
Trade and Growth of the Advanced Developing Countries in the Pacific Basin
Journal Article Trade and Growth of the Advanced Developing Countries in the Pacific Basin Get access Trade and Growth of the Advanced Developing Countries in the Pacific Basin. Edited by WoNTACK HoNG and LAWRENCE B. KRAUSE. (Seoul: Korea Development Institute, 1981. Pp. xii + 620.) Roger Berry Roger Berry University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 369, 1 M…
The role of language improvement in in-service teacher training: Killing two birds with one stone
Public Policy and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Ian Little
Journal Article Public Policy and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Ian Little Get access Public Policy and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Ian Little. Edited by MAURICE SCOTT and DEEPAK LAL. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. xviii + 396. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828582 5). Roger Berry Roger Berry University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, …
A case study in parliamentary influence: The civil rights (disabled persons) bill
Teachers’ awareness of learners’ knowledge: The case of metalinguistic terminology
This paper describes a study which investigated the knowledge of metalinguistic terminology in a group of 372 first‐year undergraduates in a tertiary institution in Hong Kong and compared this to their English teachers’ estimation of that knowledge and desire to use such terminology. It found (1) wide differences between learners in their knowledge of terminology; and, (2) wide discrepancies between this and the teachers’ expectations, some of wh…
Determiners: A class apart
Some problems encountered in the compilation of ‘Collins COBUILD English Guides 10: Determiners and Quantifiers’
We in Hong Kong: Claiming to Speak for the Community
In the run-up to the handover in Hong Kong in 1997 there was much debate about its future identity. Many “experts” and politicians put forward views that purported to be representative of Hong Kong people. One linguistic feature in this debate was the use of the pronoun we when referring to the entire community. This paper reports a survey which examined the use of this “generic” we and other first person plural pronouns in political comment in t…
Awareness of Metalanguage
This paper reports an investigation into the language used by writers of grammars of English and learners' awareness of it. Two key features of this genre are whether and how writers present themselves in the text ('personality') and whether and to what extent they qualify their statements via the use of modality. Two comparable texts, one from a pedagogic grammar and one from a scholarly grammar were given to university learners of English in or…
Who Do They Think ‘We’ Is? Learners’ Awareness of Personality in Pedagogic Grammars
This paper investigates L2 English learners’ reactions to mixed personality in a pedagogic grammar. Personality refers to how authors represent themselves in a text and interact with their readers (e.g. personally via the use of personal pronouns or impersonally via the use of the passive, etc.); mixed personality occurs when an author switches from one option to another. In an experiment, 195 students from Hong Kong and Poland were asked to read…
Making the Most of Metalanguage
Metalanguage is a term that is increasingly to be found in the applied linguistic/ language awareness literature. However, not all writers use it in the same way; some seem to be equating it with metalinguistic terminology. Tracing the term from its philosophical roots, this paper accepts a broader definition of metalanguage as 'language about language'(where terminology is viewed as the lexis); at the same time it distinguishes it from metadisco…
Will the iPod Kill the Radio Star? Profiling Podcasting as Radio
The Apple iPod has not only become a ‘must have’ style accessory for the ‘wirefree’ generation but has also revolutionized the way we consume music. At the time of writing, (November 2005) the revolution has already started in the audio world, and has been going for the last 18 months. ‘Podcasting’ allows anyone with a PC to create a ‘radio’ programme and distribute it freely, through the internet to the portable MP3 players of subscribers around…
EFL majors' knowledge of metalinguistic terminology: A comparative study
Two hundred and ninety-six English majors at universities in Poland, Austria and Hong Kong were given a 50-item questionnaire designed to evaluate their knowledge of grammatical terminology. The main aim was to identify whether the three populations were subject to differing ‘terminological cultures’. This was found to be substantially the case; for example, the term indefinite article was known by 95% of Polish students but only 29% of the Hong …
You could say that: The generic second-person pronoun in modern English
An examination of a function of the second person pronoun frequently forgotten in pedagogical grammars of English. A lawyer friend told me the following story about a court case in Hong Kong that he had taken part in. His client was in the witness box and was answering questions in Cantonese while an interpreter relayed his words in English to a judge who was not Chinese. At one point the opposing counsel put a point that was detrimental to the c…
Radio with pictures: Radio visualization in BBC national radio
It is popular to claim that radio has always had pictures – the ones listeners created in their own minds – and this is often seen as one of the medium’s greatest strengths. The process of visualization of radio in the digital age has most often focused on how producers can fill the screen of the various devices through which we receive radio today. This article focuses on the other ways in which radio is visualized online, in a process that depl…
Better the Devil: A Response to Gus O'Donnell's ‘Better Government’
Gus O'Donnell's vision of ‘better government’ is presented as a critique of party politics, most specifically the short‐termism, selfishness and incompetence of elected politicians. There are few people better placed than O'Donnell to form such judgements. However, O'Donnell goes much further, by calling into question the legitimacy of the democratic system which gives rise to party politics. His article outlines several mechanisms by which the e…
A Golden Age of Podcasting? Evaluating Serial in the Context of Podcast Histories
This article considers the 2014 podcast Serial within a context of technical change and podcast histories. Building on previous work, the author argues that Serial is a significant moment in the history of podcasting. Recent trends have shifted podcasts from iPods to networked screen-based mobile devices in smartphones and connected dashboards, locations where global brands enjoy a significant advantage. It is in this context that the author plac…
Grammar myths
This paper looks at the continued survival of ‘myths’ about English grammar, for example, the statement that in negative and interrogative sentences any should be used instead of some. It is based on a survey of 195 Hong Kong students majoring in English, in five different cohorts, which found that such myths are quite prevalent; with choices of ‘true’, ‘false’, ‘don't know’ and ‘partly true’, the true option was chosen in over 50% of cases. Diff…
Podcasting: Considering the evolution of the medium and its association with the word 'radio
When evaluating any new medium or technology we often turn to the familiar as a point of reference. Podcasting was no different, drawing obvious comparisons with radio. While there are traits within all podcasts that are radiogenic, one must also consider whether such distinctions are beneficial to the medium. Indeed, one might argue that when one considers the manner in which podcasts are created and consumed then there is an increasing sense in…
Podcasting in Transition: Formalization and Its Discontents
Podcasting has thrived since its popularization in 2004 as a bastion for amateur media production. Over the past ten years, however, entrepreneurs and legacy media companies have rapidly expanded their interests in podcasting, bringing with them professional standards and the logics of capital. Breakout hits such as 2014’s Serial (with nearly 40 million downloads) and This American Life have demonstrated to both programmers and advertisers the po…
Radio, music, podcasts – BBC Sounds: Public service radio and podcasts in a platform world
In 2018, the BBC announced plans to replace their long-established ‘iPlayer Radio’ service with a new platform called BBC Sounds. The new service was promoted as a single space where listeners can consume BBC radio, music and podcasts, creating a single point of interaction between audiences and content. This is, however, far more than an exercise in reframing public service radio content in a new app; it is also a practical application of these …
No longer the only game in town: British indies, podcasts and the new audio economy of independent production
The world of audio is undergoing seismic changes. Traditionally a space dominated by linear radio programmes, in the 2020s this form of listening remains relevant but is now being challenged by other forms and global media platforms. In particular, podcasting offers producers opportunities to pitch for commissions from brands and platforms or to make work independently. Historically, podcasting was a medium led and shaped by amateurs and distribu…
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