Philip Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1313-2526 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 43 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Grammar in Standards and Varieties of English
Within a set of texts or interactions in any language, there is always variation in linguistic form (pronunciation/spelling, lexis, and grammar). The variation between geographical or social groups is captured by the terms norm (or usage) , standard , and variety . Because communities develop norms different from one another, many varieties of English (especially spoken) can be identified, with partly differing grammars. Non‐standard grammar can …
Wordsworth after War
The Future of the Monograph in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
A web-based survey of academic publishers was undertaken in 2021 by a team at Oxford International Centre for Publishing into the state of monograph publication in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. 25 publishing organisations responded, including many of the larger presses, representing approximately 75% of monograph output. Responses to the survey showed that the Covid 19 pandemic has accelerated the existing trend from print to digital…
The Death of the Monograph
A survey of English language academic publishers in the UK, Europe and North America was undertaken in 2021. The objective was to gather data on the current landscape of academic monograph publishing in the arts, humanities, and social sciences and to identify trends. Respondents were asked about their monograph publishing activities, sales, distribution, and about the future direction of their programmes. The paper offers independent analysis of…
Dynamics of sadness by race, ethnicity, and income following George Floyd's death
Life under stay-at-home orders
During the pandemic, social interactions are protective and lack of stability in feeling supported makes older adults vulnerable to stress. Efforts should focus on (re)building and maintaining companionship and support to mitigate the pandemic's negative impact
Grammar in Academic Writing
Academic texts use the grammar of the general language but the frequency and functions of some features are different, depending partly on the genre (such as article, textbook, student essay) and partly on the discipline (such as philosophy, history, biology, physics). Generally academic texts, and particularly research articles, in many languages are characterized by a nominal style with relatively few finite verbs. They have relatively simple c…
Analysis of structural brain asymmetries in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder in 39 datasets
OBJECTIVE: Some studies have suggested alterations of structural brain asymmetry in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but findings have been contradictory and based on small samples. Here, we performed the largest ever analysis of brain left-right asymmetry in ADHD, using 39 datasets of the ENIGMA consortium. METHODS: We analyzed asymmetry of subcortical and cerebral cortical structures in up to 1,933 people with ADHD and 1,829 una…
Stability and Change of Psychopathology Symptoms Throughout Childhood and Adolescence
Assessing stability and change of children's psychopathology symptoms can help elucidate whether specific behaviors are transient developmental variations or indicate persistent psychopathology. This study included 6930 children across early childhood (T1), late childhood (T2) and early adolescence (T3), from the general population. Latent profile analysis identified psychopathology subgroups and latent transition analysis quantified the probabil…
Associations between neighborhood, family factors and symptom change in childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
War, wounding and intimacies
In war and its aftermath, new relationships are forged through acts of wounding and caring for the wounded and for the dead. This special issue focusses on the injured and injuring body as the site at which emerge constellations of hostility and intimacy between, variously, combatants, other military and medical personnel, and civilians. The articles consider unexpected, previously undiscussed war intimacies across several major conflicts of the …
Forum on English‐medium Instruction
During the first half of 2017, four scholars who know English‐medium instruction ( EMI ) well and view it from different perspectives took part in a round‐robin exchange. The forum contributors answered six sets of questions on aspects of EMI : defining terms; learning English in an EMI environment; the political or policy framework; learning a subject in a second language; teachers working in a second language; and EMI and multilingual education…
Celebrating Easter, Christmas and their associated alien fauna
Easter and Christmas are the most important events in the Christian calendar. Despite their global \nreach and cultural significance astonishingly little is known about the festivals’ genesis. Equally \nobscure is our understanding of the animals that have come to be associated with these celebrations \n– notably the Christmas Turkey and the Easter ‘Bunny’ (brown hare and the European rabbit). Like \nChristianity, none of these animals are native…
Literature and Authenticity, 1780–1900
The Prelude as History
This chapter examines major statements of Wordsworth and Coleridge on the faculty of imagination to elucidate that for both writers ‘imagination’ designates an active, productive, and non-representational mental process that should give access to forms of experience not available to habitual modes of reading and perception. This conception of imagination has its roots in the philosophical positions of German Idealism. While Coleridge’s concept of…
Emotion Dysregulation in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Although it has long been recognized that many individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) also have difficulties with emotion regulation, no consensus has been reached on how to conceptualize this clinically challenging domain. The authors examine the current literature using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Three key findings emerge. First, emotion dysregulation is prevalent in ADHD throughout the lifespan and is …
Standards and Varieties of English
Within a set of texts or interactions in any language there is always variation in linguistic form (pronunciation/spelling, syntax, lexis). Some of this variation is random, but much depends on the topic, the medium of production, and the situation in which the sample was produced. Furthermore, much can be related to the status, class, ethnicity, and local origin of the speaker (or writer). This latter type of variation is captured by the terms n…
Adapting the roman alphabet for writing O ld E nglish
Single‐sheet charters and coin epigraphy provide valuable evidence for the development of representations of the O ld E nglish dental fricative in the seventh and eighth centuries. This evidence indicates differing K entish and M ercian practices up to the 780s, when scribes in both areas rapidly adopt to represent this sound. In K ent, occasional experimentation with this character from perhaps as early as the reign of E adbald (616–40 ad ) may …
Plagiarism, Intellectual Property and the Teaching of L2 Writing
Grammar in Academic Writing
Academic discourse (the language, organization, and rhetoric of academic texts) is a member of a set of discourses called “language for specific purposes” (LSP), which include business, legal, and technical discourse. These discourses occur in spoken and written texts of many sorts. Their vocabulary and grammar can be called their registers, so that one could speak of a general academic written register characterized, for example, by formality an…
Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World
This book considers evidence for Germanic goddesses in England and on the Continent, and argues that modern scholarship has tended to focus too heavily on the notion of divine functions or spheres of activity, such as fertility or warfare, rather than considering the extent to which goddesses are rooted in localities and social structures - such local religious manifestations are more important to Germanic paganisms than is often supposed, and sh…
Robert of Gloucester and the Medieval Chronicle
The verse chronicle attributed to Robert of Gloucester has been variously interpreted as appealing to a sense of Englishness derived from the Anglo‐Saxon past, or constructed through anti‐Norman sentiment, or seeking to unify those of Anglo‐Saxon and Norman descent within an English identity. These debates also contribute to, and draw on, the evidence that the Chronicle provides for the history of the English language. Yet we remain without a mod…
English Textbooks in Parallel‐Language Tertiary Education
Tertiary education in many countries is increasingly bilingual, with English used in parallel with the national language, particularly as a reading language. This article describes the results of a survey of student attitudes toward, and reading practices regarding, English language textbooks. Over 1,000 students at three Swedish universities responded to a questionnaire asking about their experiences with English textbooks. Textbooks written in …
Multiple voices and modern phonology
Review of McCully, Chris. 2009. The Sound Structure of English: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to the English Language) 264. pp Hardback 978 0 521 85036 0, UK £45, US $90; Paperback 978 0 521 61549 5, UK £15.99, US $32.99; Adobe eBook Reader 978 0 511 51258 2, $26
Co-evolving academic rhetoric across culture; Britain, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany in the 20th century
Forum on English‐medium Instruction
During the first half of 2017, four scholars who know English‐medium instruction ( EMI ) well and view it from different perspectives took part in a round‐robin exchange. The forum contributors answered six sets of questions on aspects of EMI : defining terms; learning English in an EMI environment; the political or policy framework; learning a subject in a second language; teachers working in a second language; and EMI and multilingual education…
English Textbooks in Parallel‐Language Tertiary Education
Tertiary education in many countries is increasingly bilingual, with English used in parallel with the national language, particularly as a reading language. This article describes the results of a survey of student attitudes toward, and reading practices regarding, English language textbooks. Over 1,000 students at three Swedish universities responded to a questionnaire asking about their experiences with English textbooks. Textbooks written in …
Verb complementation patterns in Indian Standard English
Where English has two or more alternative complementation patterns for the same verb, their relative frequencies might vary among national varieties. This article investigates the relative frequencies of various complementation patterns among nine verbs whose complementation may differ between British and Indian English: provide , furnish , supply , entrust and present ; pelt, shower, pepper, bombard. A method was devised to use on-line Indian an…
Co-evolving academic rhetoric across culture; Britain, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany in the 20th century
Celebrating Easter, Christmas and their associated alien fauna
Easter and Christmas are the most important events in the Christian calendar. Despite their global \nreach and cultural significance astonishingly little is known about the festivals’ genesis. Equally \nobscure is our understanding of the animals that have come to be associated with these celebrations \n– notably the Christmas Turkey and the Easter ‘Bunny’ (brown hare and the European rabbit). Like \nChristianity, none of these animals are native…
Language and disciplinary differences in a biliterate context
This paper analyses some of the publication characteristics of a biliterate environment - the Faculty of Business Administration in a Danish business school. Academics in this faculty read predominantly in English, publish both in English and in Danish, but interact with one another almost exclusively in Danish. Data on text production, reception and publication are used to categorise the departments in the faculty and reveal interesting differen…
Associations between neighborhood, family factors and symptom change in childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Variation and Universality in Communicative Competence
Both nonnative and native speakers of a language vary in their knowledge and control of the elements of communicative competence. Some of these elements themselves are universal and available to all speakers of all languages, while others are universal in the sense that they can be used in any language the speaker knows, but are not equally available to all speakers. Other elements are language-specific and have to be learnt anew whenever a new l…
Plagiarism, Intellectual Property and the Teaching of L2 Writing
Abjection Sustained
Today the title the Disasters of War refers to at least three works. The first a set of engravings etched by Francisco Goya, c . 1810–20, published posthumously in 1863 as Los Desastres de la guerra , the second and third are a set of miniature dioramas and a suite of engravings produced by Dinos and Jake Chapman in the 1990s. All three works take as their subject the horrors of war. Goya's is based on his first‐hand experience of the sufferings …
Learners' independent records of vocabulary
A behaviorally-oriented treatment program for drug addiction
A behaviorally-oriented treatment program for drug addiction: a preliminary report. C D Copemann, and P L ShawCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.3.286 Published Online: October 07, 2011
A behaviorally-oriented treatment program for drug addiction
A behaviorally-oriented treatment program for drug addiction: a preliminary report. C D Copemann, and P L ShawCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.3.286 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Trends in West German Literary Semiotics
Rolf Kloepfer, Philip Shaw, Trends in West German Literary Semiotics: Preliminary Sketch, Poetics Today, Vol. 1, No. 1/2, Special Issue: Literature, Interpretation, Communication (Autumn, 1979), pp. 377-396
Escape into Reception
Pour une reinsertion des theses de la theorie de la reception litteraire allemande (Constance et Bielefeld) dans une theorie de la communicaiton litteraire plus synthetique
Factors Affecting the Formation of Citizen-Names in the United States
M ENCKEN'S 1948 ARTICLE in American Speech, What the People of American Towns Call Themselves, commented on the regularities and vagaries to be found in words like Bostonian, New Yorker, and Brooklynite and listed about 450 derivatives of this kind. That list, the basis for Mencken's remarks on the subject in The American Language (1936, 548), was derived from a survey of newspaper editors. Mencken gave some generalizations about the distribution…
Reasons for the Correlation of Voice, Tense, and Sentence Function in Reporting Verbs
The tense, aspect, or voice of verbs in academic writing often seems to be related to degrees of generality or relevance or to signal discourse functions like transition or foregrounding. The Introduction sections of some Ph.D theses were examined to determine the significance of verb form in reporting verbs like find or show. When forms were classified in relation to sentence function some correlation with tense was found. However, there were al…
Variation and Universality in Communicative Competence
Both nonnative and native speakers of a language vary in their knowledge and control of the elements of communicative competence. Some of these elements themselves are universal and available to all speakers of all languages, while others are universal in the sense that they can be used in any language the speaker knows, but are not equally available to all speakers. Other elements are language-specific and have to be learnt anew whenever a new l…
‘Mimic Sights’
Journal Article ‘MIMIC SIGHTS’: A NOTE ON PANORAMA AND OTHER INDOOR DISPLAYS IN BOOK 7 OF THE PRELUDE Get access PHILIP SHAW PHILIP SHAW University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 40, Issue 4, December 1993, Pages 462–464, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/40-4-462 Published: 01 December 1993
Academic Writing in a Second Language
What Develops in the Development of Second-language Writing?
Counts of register features have produced useful data on varieties of written English and on differences between writers of differing writing and language proficiency. This article reports an attempt to extend this procedure to an evaluation of the same foreign-language writers at two different stages It shows that the procedure can differentiate the products of developing writers at two relatively close points in time, and that a more detailed e…
Learners' independent records of vocabulary
Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination
"Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination offers a new and challenging look at the cultural significance of the Battle of Waterloo, the impact it had on British Romanticism and the responses of both canonical and non-canonical poets, travel writers, journalists and painters. Drawing on a range of literary critical, psychoanalytical and socio-historical approaches, Shaw aims to redefine the Romantic period as an age of inter- and intra-national confl…
Language and disciplinary differences in a biliterate context
This paper analyses some of the publication characteristics of a biliterate environment - the Faculty of Business Administration in a Danish business school. Academics in this faculty read predominantly in English, publish both in English and in Danish, but interact with one another almost exclusively in Danish. Data on text production, reception and publication are used to categorise the departments in the faculty and reveal interesting differen…
Verb complementation patterns in Indian Standard English
Where English has two or more alternative complementation patterns for the same verb, their relative frequencies might vary among national varieties. This article investigates the relative frequencies of various complementation patterns among nine verbs whose complementation may differ between British and Indian English: provide , furnish , supply , entrust and present ; pelt, shower, pepper, bombard. A method was devised to use on-line Indian an…
Abjection Sustained
Abjection Sustained
Today the title the Disasters of War refers to at least three works. The first a set of engravings etched by Francisco Goya, c . 1810–20, published posthumously in 1863 as Los Desastres de la guerra , the second and third are a set of miniature dioramas and a suite of engravings produced by Dinos and Jake Chapman in the 1990s. All three works take as their subject the horrors of war. Goya's is based on his first‐hand experience of the sufferings …
Measuring empathy
Background. Empathy plays a key role in social understanding, but its empirical measurement has proved difficult. The Empathy Quotient (EQ) is a self-report scale designed to do just that. This series of four studies examined the reliability and validity of the EQ and determined its factor structure. Method. In Study 1, 53 people completed the EQ, Social Desirability Scale (SDS) and a non-verbal mental state inference test, the Eyes Task. In Stud…
Genres across cultures
One can ask four questions about genre validity across cultures. Does a certain form or configuration occur in the culture in question? Is it acceptable? If acceptable, is it in practice preferred? Is it recommended by prescriptive authorities? This paper reports the results of an attempt to answer these questions empirically by testing the responses to four different customer‐complaint dialogues in English of 100 students in each of six countrie…
The origins of the theophoric week in the Germanic languages
The Germanic terms for the days of the week that contain the names of Germanic deities are often taken to result from Romano‐Germanic interactions in the fourth century AD. Yet this need not be the case: the linguistic arguments underpinning this view are not decisive. A reassessment of these names suggests that an early medieval process of transfer in scholarly Christian contexts may be equally, if not more, plausible
Spelling, accent and identity in computer-mediated communication
An analysis of home page spellings in relation to the accents they evoke. One of the most obvious developments connected with modern electronic communication is the opening up of an area of publicly visible language from what Sebba (2003a) calls the partially regulated zone of spelling. This zone appears in such synchronous media as instant messaging, chatrooms and ICQ (‘I seek you’) and asynchronous ones including SMS text messages, blogs, email…
Multiple voices and modern phonology
Review of McCully, Chris. 2009. The Sound Structure of English: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to the English Language) 264. pp Hardback 978 0 521 85036 0, UK £45, US $90; Paperback 978 0 521 61549 5, UK £15.99, US $32.99; Adobe eBook Reader 978 0 511 51258 2, $26
Co-evolving academic rhetoric across culture; Britain, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany in the 20th century
Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World
This book considers evidence for Germanic goddesses in England and on the Continent, and argues that modern scholarship has tended to focus too heavily on the notion of divine functions or spheres of activity, such as fertility or warfare, rather than considering the extent to which goddesses are rooted in localities and social structures - such local religious manifestations are more important to Germanic paganisms than is often supposed, and sh…
Robert of Gloucester and the Medieval Chronicle
The verse chronicle attributed to Robert of Gloucester has been variously interpreted as appealing to a sense of Englishness derived from the Anglo‐Saxon past, or constructed through anti‐Norman sentiment, or seeking to unify those of Anglo‐Saxon and Norman descent within an English identity. These debates also contribute to, and draw on, the evidence that the Chronicle provides for the history of the English language. Yet we remain without a mod…
English Textbooks in Parallel‐Language Tertiary Education
Tertiary education in many countries is increasingly bilingual, with English used in parallel with the national language, particularly as a reading language. This article describes the results of a survey of student attitudes toward, and reading practices regarding, English language textbooks. Over 1,000 students at three Swedish universities responded to a questionnaire asking about their experiences with English textbooks. Textbooks written in …
Grammar in Academic Writing
Academic discourse (the language, organization, and rhetoric of academic texts) is a member of a set of discourses called “language for specific purposes” (LSP), which include business, legal, and technical discourse. These discourses occur in spoken and written texts of many sorts. Their vocabulary and grammar can be called their registers, so that one could speak of a general academic written register characterized, for example, by formality an…
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