Bethan Davies
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bethan Davies plays a role.
Articles
2013 Unity in disunity: Centripetal and centrifugal tensions on the BBC Voices website Thematising Multilingualism in the Media, Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), pp. 121–147 | Article
This chapter 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… read more
2011 Unity in disunity: Centripetal and centrifugal tensions on the BBC Voices website Thematising Multilingualism in the Media, Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), pp. 587–614 | Article
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… read more
2007 Principles we talk by: Testing dialogue principles in task-oriented dialogues Pragmatics 17:2, pp. 203–230 | Article
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… read more