Nick Ellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Ellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellis |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1920-4930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rousseau’s Lawgiver and Nascent Societies: Rethinking “Contingency” in Agonistic Democracy
Introduction of Methods Showcase Articles in Language Learning
Building on initiatives to promote high quality methodologies and Open Science practices in the language sciences, Language Learning will introduce, as of March 2020, a new manuscript type entitled Methods Showcase Articles (MSAs). The purpose of MSAs is to introduce new or emerging qualitative and quantitative methods, techniques, or instrumentation for language data collection, cleaning, sampling, coding, scoring, and analysis. MSAs are intende…
Extending the Reach of Research: Introducing Open Accessible Summaries at Language Learning
Open science practices, which include efforts to enhance accessibility to data and materials and to improve the dissemination of findings to broader audiences, have been at the forefront of the open science movement worldwide. Language Learning is proud to extend its support of open science practices by participating in the OASIS (Open Accessible Summaries in Language Studies) initiative, which aims to make language-related research openly availa…
Inclusion of Research Materials When Submitting an Article to Language Learning
Building on initiatives to promote high quality methodologies and Open Science practices in the language sciences, Language Learning will request, as of January 1, 2020, that all submissions to the journal include, whenever possible, the full materials used in the study for peer review. This includes materials used to elicit and code primary and secondary data (such as questionnaires, language tests, interview or observation schedules, and coding…
Drivers influencing adaptive management: A retrospective evaluation of water quality decisions in South East Queensland (Australia)
Construction Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
This chapter analyzes second language acquisition in the context of Construction Grammar. It provides evidence for the psychological reality of constructions in a second language and presents a psychological analysis of the effects of form, function, frequency, and contingency that are common to both first and second language construction learning following statistical learning processes which relate input and learner cognition. The chapter also …
Variable competence
Peer Reviewed
Transitional and perpetual liminality: An identity practice perspective
In this article we combine a focus on 'liminality' with an analysis of social actors' discursive practices of identity position taking. An exploration of in-depth organisational studies shorn the relevance of 'liminality' as a conceptual focus for describing individuals' identity accounts in two different social contexts: (i) actors who experience going through a transformational change from one 'identity position' to another, and (ii) actors' se…
Business to Business Marketing: Relationships, Networks, and Strategies
PART ONE: THE ORGANISATIONAL MARKETING CONTEXT PART TWO: INTER-ORGANISATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS & NETWORKS PART THREE: BUSINESS MARKETING PLANNING PART FOUR: BUSINESS MARKETING PROGRAMMES
Marketing Identities: Shifting Circles of Identification in Inter-organizational Relationships
This study explores the discursive positioning of managers involved in inter-organizational relationships (IORs) within industrial supply chains. In closely examining a series of interviews, we find a number of interpretive repertoires of boundary construction used in IOR managers' identity discourse. Our analysis of these repertoires suggests that, although the development of IORs apparently signals the emergence of 'widening circles of identifi…
Articulating identities
One symptom of individualism in liquid modernity is the search for `identity'. Using the five theoretically discrete articles in this special issue as both a `rich' discursive resource and a point of departure, we develop a supplementary reading of the narratives which appear to inform identity research. We suggest that, while social agents in pursuit of `identity' draw on a cacophony of discursive sources, it is the varieties of `self—other' tal…
What the Hell is That: The Representation of Professional Service Markets in The Simpsons
This paper makes productive connections between two forms of representation—formal scholarship on professional service workers and their depictions in The Simpsons cartoon series. In considering the show's representations of Attorney Lionel Hutz and Dr Nick Riviera, I ponder the ways in which the market-based behaviours of these `expert' individuals are so repeatedly targeted for satire. Through a detailed dissection of The Simpsons' scripts, I d…
A democratic story: Collaboration in the use of public budget
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the notion of “storying collaboration” can benefit democratic participation, collaboration among different social actors, and local development. Design/methodology/approach The methodology relies initially on a hermeneutical epistemological view which also incorporates Aristotelian analysis of speech as a deconstructive tool. Initial findings suggest a further shift in approach towards the as…
Telling stories and the practice of collaboration
Purpose Stories and the telling of stories constitute a major part of our daily life, yet how this happens is not clearly understood. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the ways in which stories challenge the notions of knowledge that are common in the “classical” scientific tradition. It also aims to focus on the function of stories in the collaborative, interpersonal and inter‐organisational dynamics of the way knowledge is built up in da…
Collecting collaboration: Understanding collaboration through stories
Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to provide an overview of content and process of development of the five papers collected in this special issue on collaboration and storying. Design/methodology/approach This guest editorial discusses the five papers in terms of their contribution both to debates on the utility of stories as data and forms of knowledge as well as to developing understandings of the research and practice of collaboration. …
Characters in stories of collaboration
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which narratives of collaborations tagged as successful may be constructed around common characterizations of participants, in order to provide insights to the ways in which stories may be constructed as vehicles for the adoption or adaptation of good or promising practices. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interview data from three collaborative situations are analysed through a …
Competing interests: The challenge to collaboration in the public sector
Purpose Managers working within organizations that are part of public–private collaborations comment on their “diabolical” nature and seek guidance as to their administration. Set in an organization involved in a public–private “service delivery contract”, the purpose of this paper is to report research into the collaboration and challenges experienced within the organization. It also seeks to consider to the significance of narrative and story‐t…
Discursive tensions in collaboration: Stories of the marketplace
Purpose If stories can create promising practices, what does talk of “collaboration” mean in the context of what would appear to be market‐based inter‐firm relationships (IFRs)? How do managers trying to cope in industrial sectors make sense of supply chain relationships? This empirically driven paper attempts to shed some light on these issues. Design/methodology/approach The stories collected here show how a subtle analysis of actors’ “network …
Discourse, practice, policy and organizing: Some opening comments
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the interplay between discourse, policy and practice in relation to aspects of organization and processes of organizing. Design/methodology/approach Provides an introduction to the six contributions contained in this special issue and discusses how they relate to the core theme. Findings Highlights the need for an approach which treats discourses, policies and practices as connected and mutually im…
Retention of foreign vocabulary learned using the keyword method: A ten-year follow-up
This article assesses one individual's level of recall for foreign vocabulary learned ten years previously using the keyword method. Without any revision at all, he remembered 35% of the test words with spelling fully correct and over 50% with only very minor errors of spelling. After 10 minutes spent looking at a vocabulary list, recall increased to 65% and 76% respectively. After a period of revision lasting a further 11⁄2 hours, recall was vir…
Which Label? An Investigation into the Effects of Terminology on Public Perceptions of and Attitudes towards People with Learning Difficulties
There is much rhetoric around the damaging effect of certain labels applied to people with learning difficulties. This empirical study investigated the effect of three different labels in current usage on public perceptions of the groups so labelled. The labels contrasted were ‘mentally subnormal’, ‘mentally handicapped’ and ‘people with learning difficulties’. Three independent groups of subjects were presented with an attitude questionnaire. Th…
Parental attitudes towards the welsh language
Two main reasons have been suggested for learning or for retaining a language: utility and esteem. The Welsh language is still declining. Reasons for this decline could lie in the attitudes of Welsh and non‐Welsh speakers towards the language. As legislation has attempted to facilitate the use of Welsh, opinions about the language were examined. Subjects comprised groups of parents from differing English/Welsh speaking backgrounds. An overall fav…
The development of reading: As you seek so shall you find
In this paper we critically examine different methods of investigation of reading development and reading disability. We argue that there is need for longitudinal studies of reading where a differential design allows assessment of the relative degree of involvement of associated skills. We then describe one study of this type. The results chart the development of children who become skilled readers and of those with generalized or specific readin…
Articulating identities
One symptom of individualism in liquid modernity is the search for `identity'. Using the five theoretically discrete articles in this special issue as both a `rich' discursive resource and a point of departure, we develop a supplementary reading of the narratives which appear to inform identity research. We suggest that, while social agents in pursuit of `identity' draw on a cacophony of discursive sources, it is the varieties of `self—other' tal…
Transitional and perpetual liminality: An identity practice perspective
In this article we combine a focus on 'liminality' with an analysis of social actors' discursive practices of identity position taking. An exploration of in-depth organisational studies shorn the relevance of 'liminality' as a conceptual focus for describing individuals' identity accounts in two different social contexts: (i) actors who experience going through a transformational change from one 'identity position' to another, and (ii) actors' se…
Marketing Identities: Shifting Circles of Identification in Inter-organizational Relationships
This study explores the discursive positioning of managers involved in inter-organizational relationships (IORs) within industrial supply chains. In closely examining a series of interviews, we find a number of interpretive repertoires of boundary construction used in IOR managers' identity discourse. Our analysis of these repertoires suggests that, although the development of IORs apparently signals the emergence of 'widening circles of identifi…
Retention of foreign vocabulary learned using the keyword method: A ten-year follow-up
This article assesses one individual's level of recall for foreign vocabulary learned ten years previously using the keyword method. Without any revision at all, he remembered 35% of the test words with spelling fully correct and over 50% with only very minor errors of spelling. After 10 minutes spent looking at a vocabulary list, recall increased to 65% and 76% respectively. After a period of revision lasting a further 11⁄2 hours, recall was vir…
Extending the Reach of Research: Introducing Open Accessible Summaries at Language Learning
Open science practices, which include efforts to enhance accessibility to data and materials and to improve the dissemination of findings to broader audiences, have been at the forefront of the open science movement worldwide. Language Learning is proud to extend its support of open science practices by participating in the OASIS (Open Accessible Summaries in Language Studies) initiative, which aims to make language-related research openly availa…
Inclusion of Research Materials When Submitting an Article to Language Learning
Building on initiatives to promote high quality methodologies and Open Science practices in the language sciences, Language Learning will request, as of January 1, 2020, that all submissions to the journal include, whenever possible, the full materials used in the study for peer review. This includes materials used to elicit and code primary and secondary data (such as questionnaires, language tests, interview or observation schedules, and coding…
Construction Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
This chapter analyzes second language acquisition in the context of Construction Grammar. It provides evidence for the psychological reality of constructions in a second language and presents a psychological analysis of the effects of form, function, frequency, and contingency that are common to both first and second language construction learning following statistical learning processes which relate input and learner cognition. The chapter also …
Competing interests: The challenge to collaboration in the public sector
Purpose Managers working within organizations that are part of public–private collaborations comment on their “diabolical” nature and seek guidance as to their administration. Set in an organization involved in a public–private “service delivery contract”, the purpose of this paper is to report research into the collaboration and challenges experienced within the organization. It also seeks to consider to the significance of narrative and story‐t…
Parental attitudes towards the welsh language
Two main reasons have been suggested for learning or for retaining a language: utility and esteem. The Welsh language is still declining. Reasons for this decline could lie in the attitudes of Welsh and non‐Welsh speakers towards the language. As legislation has attempted to facilitate the use of Welsh, opinions about the language were examined. Subjects comprised groups of parents from differing English/Welsh speaking backgrounds. An overall fav…
Discourse, practice, policy and organizing: Some opening comments
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the interplay between discourse, policy and practice in relation to aspects of organization and processes of organizing. Design/methodology/approach Provides an introduction to the six contributions contained in this special issue and discusses how they relate to the core theme. Findings Highlights the need for an approach which treats discourses, policies and practices as connected and mutually im…
The development of reading: As you seek so shall you find
In this paper we critically examine different methods of investigation of reading development and reading disability. We argue that there is need for longitudinal studies of reading where a differential design allows assessment of the relative degree of involvement of associated skills. We then describe one study of this type. The results chart the development of children who become skilled readers and of those with generalized or specific readin…
The development of reading: As you seek so shall you find
In this paper we critically examine different methods of investigation of reading development and reading disability. We argue that there is need for longitudinal studies of reading where a differential design allows assessment of the relative degree of involvement of associated skills. We then describe one study of this type. The results chart the development of children who become skilled readers and of those with generalized or specific readin…
Parental attitudes towards the welsh language
Two main reasons have been suggested for learning or for retaining a language: utility and esteem. The Welsh language is still declining. Reasons for this decline could lie in the attitudes of Welsh and non‐Welsh speakers towards the language. As legislation has attempted to facilitate the use of Welsh, opinions about the language were examined. Subjects comprised groups of parents from differing English/Welsh speaking backgrounds. An overall fav…
Which Label? An Investigation into the Effects of Terminology on Public Perceptions of and Attitudes towards People with Learning Difficulties
There is much rhetoric around the damaging effect of certain labels applied to people with learning difficulties. This empirical study investigated the effect of three different labels in current usage on public perceptions of the groups so labelled. The labels contrasted were ‘mentally subnormal’, ‘mentally handicapped’ and ‘people with learning difficulties’. Three independent groups of subjects were presented with an attitude questionnaire. Th…
Retention of foreign vocabulary learned using the keyword method: A ten-year follow-up
This article assesses one individual's level of recall for foreign vocabulary learned ten years previously using the keyword method. Without any revision at all, he remembered 35% of the test words with spelling fully correct and over 50% with only very minor errors of spelling. After 10 minutes spent looking at a vocabulary list, recall increased to 65% and 76% respectively. After a period of revision lasting a further 11⁄2 hours, recall was vir…
Discourse, practice, policy and organizing: Some opening comments
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the interplay between discourse, policy and practice in relation to aspects of organization and processes of organizing. Design/methodology/approach Provides an introduction to the six contributions contained in this special issue and discusses how they relate to the core theme. Findings Highlights the need for an approach which treats discourses, policies and practices as connected and mutually im…
What the Hell is That: The Representation of Professional Service Markets in The Simpsons
This paper makes productive connections between two forms of representation—formal scholarship on professional service workers and their depictions in The Simpsons cartoon series. In considering the show's representations of Attorney Lionel Hutz and Dr Nick Riviera, I ponder the ways in which the market-based behaviours of these `expert' individuals are so repeatedly targeted for satire. Through a detailed dissection of The Simpsons' scripts, I d…
A democratic story: Collaboration in the use of public budget
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the notion of “storying collaboration” can benefit democratic participation, collaboration among different social actors, and local development. Design/methodology/approach The methodology relies initially on a hermeneutical epistemological view which also incorporates Aristotelian analysis of speech as a deconstructive tool. Initial findings suggest a further shift in approach towards the as…
Telling stories and the practice of collaboration
Purpose Stories and the telling of stories constitute a major part of our daily life, yet how this happens is not clearly understood. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the ways in which stories challenge the notions of knowledge that are common in the “classical” scientific tradition. It also aims to focus on the function of stories in the collaborative, interpersonal and inter‐organisational dynamics of the way knowledge is built up in da…
Collecting collaboration: Understanding collaboration through stories
Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to provide an overview of content and process of development of the five papers collected in this special issue on collaboration and storying. Design/methodology/approach This guest editorial discusses the five papers in terms of their contribution both to debates on the utility of stories as data and forms of knowledge as well as to developing understandings of the research and practice of collaboration. …
Characters in stories of collaboration
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which narratives of collaborations tagged as successful may be constructed around common characterizations of participants, in order to provide insights to the ways in which stories may be constructed as vehicles for the adoption or adaptation of good or promising practices. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interview data from three collaborative situations are analysed through a …
Competing interests: The challenge to collaboration in the public sector
Purpose Managers working within organizations that are part of public–private collaborations comment on their “diabolical” nature and seek guidance as to their administration. Set in an organization involved in a public–private “service delivery contract”, the purpose of this paper is to report research into the collaboration and challenges experienced within the organization. It also seeks to consider to the significance of narrative and story‐t…
Discursive tensions in collaboration: Stories of the marketplace
Purpose If stories can create promising practices, what does talk of “collaboration” mean in the context of what would appear to be market‐based inter‐firm relationships (IFRs)? How do managers trying to cope in industrial sectors make sense of supply chain relationships? This empirically driven paper attempts to shed some light on these issues. Design/methodology/approach The stories collected here show how a subtle analysis of actors’ “network …
Articulating identities
One symptom of individualism in liquid modernity is the search for `identity'. Using the five theoretically discrete articles in this special issue as both a `rich' discursive resource and a point of departure, we develop a supplementary reading of the narratives which appear to inform identity research. We suggest that, while social agents in pursuit of `identity' draw on a cacophony of discursive sources, it is the varieties of `self—other' tal…
Business to Business Marketing: Relationships, Networks, and Strategies
PART ONE: THE ORGANISATIONAL MARKETING CONTEXT PART TWO: INTER-ORGANISATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS & NETWORKS PART THREE: BUSINESS MARKETING PLANNING PART FOUR: BUSINESS MARKETING PROGRAMMES
Marketing Identities: Shifting Circles of Identification in Inter-organizational Relationships
This study explores the discursive positioning of managers involved in inter-organizational relationships (IORs) within industrial supply chains. In closely examining a series of interviews, we find a number of interpretive repertoires of boundary construction used in IOR managers' identity discourse. Our analysis of these repertoires suggests that, although the development of IORs apparently signals the emergence of 'widening circles of identifi…
Transitional and perpetual liminality: An identity practice perspective
In this article we combine a focus on 'liminality' with an analysis of social actors' discursive practices of identity position taking. An exploration of in-depth organisational studies shorn the relevance of 'liminality' as a conceptual focus for describing individuals' identity accounts in two different social contexts: (i) actors who experience going through a transformational change from one 'identity position' to another, and (ii) actors' se…
Variable competence
Peer Reviewed
Construction Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
This chapter analyzes second language acquisition in the context of Construction Grammar. It provides evidence for the psychological reality of constructions in a second language and presents a psychological analysis of the effects of form, function, frequency, and contingency that are common to both first and second language construction learning following statistical learning processes which relate input and learner cognition. The chapter also …
Drivers influencing adaptive management: A retrospective evaluation of water quality decisions in South East Queensland (Australia)
Extending the Reach of Research: Introducing Open Accessible Summaries at Language Learning
Open science practices, which include efforts to enhance accessibility to data and materials and to improve the dissemination of findings to broader audiences, have been at the forefront of the open science movement worldwide. Language Learning is proud to extend its support of open science practices by participating in the OASIS (Open Accessible Summaries in Language Studies) initiative, which aims to make language-related research openly availa…
Inclusion of Research Materials When Submitting an Article to Language Learning
Building on initiatives to promote high quality methodologies and Open Science practices in the language sciences, Language Learning will request, as of January 1, 2020, that all submissions to the journal include, whenever possible, the full materials used in the study for peer review. This includes materials used to elicit and code primary and secondary data (such as questionnaires, language tests, interview or observation schedules, and coding…
Introduction of Methods Showcase Articles in Language Learning
Building on initiatives to promote high quality methodologies and Open Science practices in the language sciences, Language Learning will introduce, as of March 2020, a new manuscript type entitled Methods Showcase Articles (MSAs). The purpose of MSAs is to introduce new or emerging qualitative and quantitative methods, techniques, or instrumentation for language data collection, cleaning, sampling, coding, scoring, and analysis. MSAs are intende…
Rousseau’s Lawgiver and Nascent Societies: Rethinking “Contingency” in Agonistic Democracy
Computer Science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Social science (10 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Originality (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Qualitative research (7 works)