Sarah E Duffy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3487162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah E Duffy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah E |
| FAMILY NAME | Duffy |
| SIGNATURE | DUFFY S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0345-0288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Open justice in the political economy of visibility
This essay examines how the principle of open justice is reconfigured under conditions of platform-mediated visibility. While openness has long been understood as a democratic safeguard, socio-legal and media scholarship shows that visibility is never neutral but staged, mediated, and institutionally structured. Positioned as a conceptual intervention into debates about media, visibility, and public authority, the essay argues that contemporary o…
The last word
This article investigates how institutional authority and individual agency are co-constructed in the closing moments of courtroom testimony. Drawing on conversation analysis within a critical-discursive and Foucauldian framework, it examines the final re-cross-examination of Amanda Hayes in State v. Hayes. The analysis shows how question design, timing, and repeated phrasing both sustain and contest power, and how micro-level practices—overlap, …
The role of narrative time in legal storytelling
Opening statements in criminal trials serve as a crucial stage in which attorneys present competing accounts of events and establish narrative frameworks that shape how jurors interpret the case. This article develops a linguistic framework for analysing temporal structuring in courtroom storytelling, applying Ricœur’s theory of narrative time to the study of legal argumentation. Focusing on the separate North Carolina murder trials of Grant and …
Modals and conditionals in instrumental practical reasoning
This paper investigates the relation between conditionals and modals in Polish. In particular, it looks into whether modalized indirect reports of conditionals – specifically, reports which involve the use of root modality verbs – reflect the number of alternative antecedents foregrounded in the context of the reported conditional utterance. It finds that the root possibility modal mogę is preferred when many alternative antecedents are foregroun…
On the path of time
The Moving Ego and Moving Time metaphors have provided a fertile testing ground for the psychological reality of space–time metaphors. Despite this, little research has targeted the linguistic patterns used in these two mappings. To fill that gap, the current study uses corpus data to examine the use of motion verbs in two typologically different languages, English and Spanish. We first investigated the relative frequency of the two metaphors. Wh…
Power, Gender, and Individual Differences in Spatial Metaphor
English speakers use vertical language to talk about power, such as when speaking of people being “at the bottom of the social hierarchy” or “rising to the top.” Experimental research has shown that people automatically associate higher spatial positions with more powerful social groups, such as doctors and army generals, compared to lower spatial positions, which are associated with relatively less powerful groups, such as nurses and soldiers. H…
Power in time
In English, the Moving Ego metaphor conceptualizes the ego as moving forward through time and the Moving Time metaphor construes time as moving forward toward the ego. Recent research has provided evidence that people's metaphorical perspectives on deictic time may be influenced by experiences-both spatial and non-spatial-that are connected to approach motivations (Moving Ego) and avoidance motivations (Moving Time). We extend this research furth…
Discoveries from La Manche
Since 2010 a new field project drawn from major UK institutions including the UCL Institute of Archaeology, has focused research on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic record of the Channel Island of Jersey. In this retrospective of five years of research the history of the project to date, its focus on the Middle Palaeolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade and its growth into an international research team is charted. The formation of the La Manche …
Moving beyond ‘Next Wednesday’
What factors influence our understanding of metaphoric statements about time? By examining the interpretation of one such statement – namely, Next Wednesday’s meeting has been moved forward by two days – earlier research has demonstrated that people may draw on spatial perspectives, involving multiple spatially based temporal reference strategies, to interpret metaphoric statements about time (e.g. Boroditsky 2000; Kranjec 2006; McGlone and Hardi…
The Role of Cultural Artifacts in the Interpretation of Metaphorical Expressions About Time
Across cultures, people employ space to construct representations of time. English exhibits two deictic space–time metaphors: the “moving ego” metaphor conceptualizes the ego as moving forward through time and the “moving time” metaphor conceptualizes time as moving forward towards the ego. Earlier research investigating the psychological reality of these metaphors has shown that engaging in certain types of spatial-motion thinking may influence …
Individual differences in the interpretation of ambiguous statements about time
What factors influence the ways in which people resolve ambiguity? In English, two contrasting perspectives are implicit in deictic temporal expressions: the Moving Time metaphor conceptualizes time as moving forward towards the ego and the Moving Ego metaphor conceptualizes the ego as moving forward towards the future (Clark 1973). We examine the ambiguity arising from these two conceptualizations, claimed to be equally likely in a “neutral” con…
Individual differences in the interpretation of ambiguous statements about time
What factors influence the ways in which people resolve ambiguity? In English, two contrasting perspectives are implicit in deictic temporal expressions: the Moving Time metaphor conceptualizes time as moving forward towards the ego and the Moving Ego metaphor conceptualizes the ego as moving forward towards the future (Clark 1973). We examine the ambiguity arising from these two conceptualizations, claimed to be equally likely in a “neutral” con…
Moving beyond ‘Next Wednesday’
What factors influence our understanding of metaphoric statements about time? By examining the interpretation of one such statement – namely, Next Wednesday’s meeting has been moved forward by two days – earlier research has demonstrated that people may draw on spatial perspectives, involving multiple spatially based temporal reference strategies, to interpret metaphoric statements about time (e.g. Boroditsky 2000; Kranjec 2006; McGlone and Hardi…
Power in time
In English, the Moving Ego metaphor conceptualizes the ego as moving forward through time and the Moving Time metaphor construes time as moving forward toward the ego. Recent research has provided evidence that people's metaphorical perspectives on deictic time may be influenced by experiences-both spatial and non-spatial-that are connected to approach motivations (Moving Ego) and avoidance motivations (Moving Time). We extend this research furth…
The Role of Cultural Artifacts in the Interpretation of Metaphorical Expressions About Time
Across cultures, people employ space to construct representations of time. English exhibits two deictic space–time metaphors: the “moving ego” metaphor conceptualizes the ego as moving forward through time and the “moving time” metaphor conceptualizes time as moving forward towards the ego. Earlier research investigating the psychological reality of these metaphors has shown that engaging in certain types of spatial-motion thinking may influence …
Individual differences in the interpretation of ambiguous statements about time
What factors influence the ways in which people resolve ambiguity? In English, two contrasting perspectives are implicit in deictic temporal expressions: the Moving Time metaphor conceptualizes time as moving forward towards the ego and the Moving Ego metaphor conceptualizes the ego as moving forward towards the future (Clark 1973). We examine the ambiguity arising from these two conceptualizations, claimed to be equally likely in a “neutral” con…
Discoveries from La Manche
Since 2010 a new field project drawn from major UK institutions including the UCL Institute of Archaeology, has focused research on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic record of the Channel Island of Jersey. In this retrospective of five years of research the history of the project to date, its focus on the Middle Palaeolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade and its growth into an international research team is charted. The formation of the La Manche …
Moving beyond ‘Next Wednesday’
What factors influence our understanding of metaphoric statements about time? By examining the interpretation of one such statement – namely, Next Wednesday’s meeting has been moved forward by two days – earlier research has demonstrated that people may draw on spatial perspectives, involving multiple spatially based temporal reference strategies, to interpret metaphoric statements about time (e.g. Boroditsky 2000; Kranjec 2006; McGlone and Hardi…
Power in time
In English, the Moving Ego metaphor conceptualizes the ego as moving forward through time and the Moving Time metaphor construes time as moving forward toward the ego. Recent research has provided evidence that people's metaphorical perspectives on deictic time may be influenced by experiences-both spatial and non-spatial-that are connected to approach motivations (Moving Ego) and avoidance motivations (Moving Time). We extend this research furth…
On the path of time
The Moving Ego and Moving Time metaphors have provided a fertile testing ground for the psychological reality of space–time metaphors. Despite this, little research has targeted the linguistic patterns used in these two mappings. To fill that gap, the current study uses corpus data to examine the use of motion verbs in two typologically different languages, English and Spanish. We first investigated the relative frequency of the two metaphors. Wh…
Power, Gender, and Individual Differences in Spatial Metaphor
English speakers use vertical language to talk about power, such as when speaking of people being “at the bottom of the social hierarchy” or “rising to the top.” Experimental research has shown that people automatically associate higher spatial positions with more powerful social groups, such as doctors and army generals, compared to lower spatial positions, which are associated with relatively less powerful groups, such as nurses and soldiers. H…
Modals and conditionals in instrumental practical reasoning
This paper investigates the relation between conditionals and modals in Polish. In particular, it looks into whether modalized indirect reports of conditionals – specifically, reports which involve the use of root modality verbs – reflect the number of alternative antecedents foregrounded in the context of the reported conditional utterance. It finds that the root possibility modal mogę is preferred when many alternative antecedents are foregroun…
Open justice in the political economy of visibility
This essay examines how the principle of open justice is reconfigured under conditions of platform-mediated visibility. While openness has long been understood as a democratic safeguard, socio-legal and media scholarship shows that visibility is never neutral but staged, mediated, and institutionally structured. Positioned as a conceptual intervention into debates about media, visibility, and public authority, the essay argues that contemporary o…
The last word
This article investigates how institutional authority and individual agency are co-constructed in the closing moments of courtroom testimony. Drawing on conversation analysis within a critical-discursive and Foucauldian framework, it examines the final re-cross-examination of Amanda Hayes in State v. Hayes. The analysis shows how question design, timing, and repeated phrasing both sustain and contest power, and how micro-level practices—overlap, …
The role of narrative time in legal storytelling
Opening statements in criminal trials serve as a crucial stage in which attorneys present competing accounts of events and establish narrative frameworks that shape how jurors interpret the case. This article develops a linguistic framework for analysing temporal structuring in courtroom storytelling, applying Ricœur’s theory of narrative time to the study of legal argumentation. Focusing on the separate North Carolina murder trials of Grant and …
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Ambiguity (3 works) · Metaphor (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)