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Volume 1, Number 1 (1971)

M.M. Lewis 'What we know about children's language development'

R.R.K. Hartman 'American Linguistics 1971'

C.S. Butler 'The language German chemists use'

J.G. Williamson ' Language and the student teacher'

W. Nash 'The continuing dilemma of linguistics'

 

Volume 1, Number 2 (1973)

N. Denison 'Socio-linguistics field-work I'

C.N. Candlin 'Socio-linguistics field-work II'

B.W. Ife 'Can a TG grammar provide a model of the literary process?'

R.M. Kempson 'Conditions for a semantic theory'

D. Barnaby 'Adjective order in English noun phrases'

J. Shotter 'Can the current dilemma of linguistics ever be resolved?'

 

Volume 2, Number 1 (1973)

J.McH. Sinclair et al. 'Linguistic Stylistics by candle-light'

K.A. Albrow 'The English writing system complex'

E. Fichtner 'Formal versus functional linguistics'

C.J. Pountain 'Dilemmas and dichotomies'

 

Volume 2, Number 2 (1973)

P. MacCarthy 'Phonetic training for modern language students'

G.L.M. Berry-Rogghe 'Some contributions of computational linguistics'

I. Fletcher 'A semantic and syntactical investigation of a verbal lexical field'

J.M. Wilding 'Structural amnesia and the ideal native speaker'

C.S. Butler 'A contrastive study of modality in English, French, German and Italian'

 

Volume 3, Number 1 (1973)

C.J. Poutain 'Generative Semantics and semantics'

D.J. Bruce 'Performance and the study of language acquisition'

F.C. Stork 'Linguistics and speech therapy'

M. Greenwood 'A speech therapist's comments on the Quirk Report'

R.R.K. Hartman 'European linguistics 1973. Establishment or revolution?'

W.N. 'I think that I shall never see . . .'

W.Nash 'Lames and sames. Two sociolinguistic perspectives'

M.C. Grayshon 'On saying no'

 

Volume 3, Number 2 (1974)

Pieter A.M. Seuren 'Referential constraints on lexical islands'

Friedemann Lux 'Texts, text types, poetic texts'

Walter Nash 'Child's play, man's work: a review of Tom Holt's poems'

Christopher Butler 'Stylistic patterning in Tom Holt's "The Apple Tree"'

 

Volume 4, Number 1 (1975)

M.C. Grayshon 'Towards a social grammar'

Michael Stubbs 'Grammatical form, discourse function, discourse structure and social situation: comment on Grayshon'

Robin Fawcett 'Summary of 'Some issues concerning levels in systemic models of language''

Christopher S. Butler 'Some observations on the characteristics of restricted and elaborated codes'

 

Volume 4, Number 2 (1975)

M.C. Grayshon '"Social grammar and discourse function analysis" Comment on Stubbs' "Grammatical form, discourse function, discourse structure and social situation"'

M. Stubbs 'Review of Thornton, Language, Experience and School
and A. P. Doughty, Language and Community'

Deirdre Burton 'Concrete poetry - "the general art of the word"'

 

Volume 5, Number 1 (1976)

Dennis E. Ager 'Register'

W.A. Bennet 'One type of expressive noun phrase in French'

Deirdre Burton '"In think they know that" Aspects of English language work in primary classrooms'

M. Stubbs 'Review of Trudgill, Accent, Dialect and the School'

 

Volume 5, Number 2 (1976)

Andrew Radford 'On the non-discrete nature of the Verb-Auxiliary distinction in English'

Geoffrey K. Pullum 'On the nonexistence of the Verb-Auxiliary distinction in English'

Andrew Radford 'Postscript on Squishes'

Geoffrey K. Pullum 'Squish: a final squash'

A.R. Pester 'The 'Locution Prépositive' as a stylistic marker in modern French'

J.C.B. Gordon 'Concepts of verbal deficit in Bernstein's writings on language and social class'

Geoffrey Turner 'Review of M.A.K. Halliday, Learning How to Mean: Explorations in the Development of Language'

 

Volume 6, Number 1 (1977)

Alex Rodger 'Themes and these: textual cohesion and poetic significance in Theodore Roethke's "Child on Top of s Greenhouse"'

Pierre Calame 'A poetic model: an analysis of Robert Graves' "The Cool Web"'

Deirdre Burton 'Dialogue and discourse: on stylistic analysis and modern dramatic texts, with an illustration from Tom Stoppard'

Walter Nash 'On a passage from Lawrence's "Odour of Chrysanthemums"'

Deirdre Burton 'Review of H.G. Widdowson, Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature'

 

Volume 6, Number 2 (1977)

Nancy Ratner & Jerome Bruner 'Games, social exchange and the acquisition of language'

Alison Gopnik 'No, there, more and allgone: why the first words aren't about things'

Celia Noble 'Weak speak: an investigation of sarcastic slang'

Gordon Wells 'Language use and educational success: a response to Joan Tough's The Development of Meaning (1977)'

J.C.B. Gordon 'Linguistics and the concept of verbal deficit'

 

Volume 7, Number 1 (1978)

A.S. Crompton 'Phonological models for intonation'

F.J. Nolan 'The 'coarticulation resistance' model of articulatory control: solid evidence from English liquids?'

C.S. Butler 'Review of Brown, Listening to Spoken English'

A.H. Sommerstein 'Review of Fisher-Jørgensen, Trends in Phonological Theory: a Historical Introduction'

 

Volume 7, Number 2 (1978)

A.S. Crompton 'Generation of intonation and contours from syntactically specified input'

Paul A. Chilton 'On the theory of register'

Deirdre Burton 'Towards an analysis of casual conversation'

Michael Stubbs 'Review of MacKinnon, Language, Education and Social Processes in a Gaelic Community'

Richard A. Coates 'Reviews of Trudgill (ed), Sociolinguistic Patterns in British English and Macaulay, Language, Social Class and Education: a Glasgow Study'

 

Volume 8, Number 1 (1979)

G.G. Corbett 'Adjective movement'

Bruce Willis 'Mentally retarded children - qualitatively different speech'

Ronald Carter 'Poetry and conversation: an essay in discourse analysis'

Richard Coates 'Survival of ciphered forms in speech'

Margaret Berry 'A note on Sinclair and Coulthard's classes of acts, including a comment on comments'

Michael F. McTear 'Review of Labov & Fanshel, Therapeutic Discourse: Psychotherapy as Conversation'

Richard Coates 'Review of Jakobson, Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning'

R.R.K. Hartman 'Review of Holt, Kaleidoskop - ein deutsches Lesebuch'

Walter Grauberg 'Review of MacDonald, French in the News'

 

Volume 8, Number 2 (1979)

Jennifer & Paul Coates 'Using computer models to test linguistic models: an attempt at a modal algorithm'

Kay Richardson 'Some comments on the function of sentences in discourse'

Sue Foster 'Topic initiation - one step or two: some factors involved in Mother-Child interaction at the prelinguistic stage'

John Connolly 'Quantitative analysis of syntactic change'

Michael F. McTear 'Review of Jim Shenkein, (ed), Studies in the Organization of Conversational Interaction'

Michael Stubbs 'Review of Malcolm Coulthard & David Brazil, Exchange Structure'

 

Volume 9, Number 1 (1980)

Jenny Cheshire 'Syntactic and semantic constraints on ain't'

A.G.H. Walker 'North Frisia and linguistics'

Ronald Chan 'The non-uniqueness of stylistic descriptions'

Anita Pincas 'Teaching linguistics: the problem of terminology'

Christopher J. Pountain 'Theoretical linguistics and the teaching of Spanish'

Gill Alexander 'Review of Casey Miller & Kate Swift, Words and Women'

Euan Reid 'Reviews of A.J. Aitken & Tom McArthur, (eds), Languages of Scotland and V.K. Edwards, The West Indian Issue in British Schools'

Michael Stubbs 'Review of J.D. McClure, A.J. Aitken & J.T. Low, The Scots Language'

 

Volume 9, Number 2 (1980)

Katie Wales '"Personal" and "indefinite" reference: the users of the pronoun ONE in present-day English'

Siew-Yue Killingley 'Syntactical and semantic considerations in the Cantonese classifier'

Michael Stubbs & Margaret Berry 'The Duke of Wellington's gambit: notes on the English verbal group

Kevin Durkin 'A note on the meaning and use of English proximity prepositions'

Ronald Carter 'Reviews of V.J. Cook, Young Children and Language and Alan Cruttenden, Language in Infancy and Childhood'

 

Volume 10, Number 1 (1981)

Mava Jo Powell 'The notion of literal meaning in Speech Act Theory'

Robyn Carston 'Irony and parody and the use-mention distinction'

Margaret Berry 'Polarity, ellipticity and propositional development, their relevance to the well-formedness of an exchange (a discussion of Coulthard and Brazil's classes of Move)'

Walter Nash 'Openings and Preconditions: A note on narrative'

Jeffrey Wilkinson 'Children's Writing: Composing or Decomposing?'

 

Volume 10, Number 2 (1981)

Sandra Harris 'The function of directives in court discourse'

Richard Hudson 'Wanna and the lexicon'

John M. Kirk 'On Scottish non-standard English'

Steve Lander 'Creole and non-Creole influence on the English of the British-born children of the Carribean immigrants'

Anthony J. Tinkel 'Language study in the Sixth Form'

Siew-Yue Killingley 'A note on certain difficulties in using GALD'

Michael Stubbs 'Review of Hartmann, (ed), Dictionaries and their Users'

 

Volume 11, Number 1 (1982)

Graeme Ritchie 'Computational approaches to language'

Siew-Yue Killingley 'Classifier, noun and verb in the expression of spatiotemporal relationships in Cantonese'

Alan Davies 'Spaces between silences: verbal interaction in Quaker meetings'

Margaret Berry 'Review of Halliday, M.A.K., Language as Social Semiotic'

 

Volume 11, Number 2 (1982)

Penny Willis and Lesley Jeffries 'Participant (case) roles and lexical analysis'

Jane Roberts 'The English historical thesaurus'

Paul Meara 'Word associations in a foreign language'

Ronald Carter 'A note on core vocabulary'

A.P. Cowie 'Polysemy and the structure of lexical fields'

D.A. Cruse 'On lexical ambiguity'

R.R.K. Hartman 'Lexicography: an annotated minimum bibliography'

 

Volume 12, Number 1 (1983)

Phil Champ 'The evaporation of liquids in Cockney'

Una Cunningham 'Aspects of the intonation of Spanish'

Martin Nystrand 'The role of context in written communication'

David Pimm 'Similarities and differences between mathematical and linguistic transformations'

M. Stubbs 'Review of R. Lesser & P. Trewitt, An Annotated Bibliography of Verbal Materials'

M. Stubbs 'Review of Peter Trudgill & Jean Hannah, International English'

 

Volume 12, Number 2 (1983)

Christopher Brumfit 'Some problems with Krashen's concept's "acquisition" and "learning"'

Annick de Houwer 'Some aspects of the simultaneous acquisition of Dutch and English by a three-year-old child'

A.A. Lyne 'Word-frequency counts: their particular relevance to the description of languages for special purposes and a technique for enhancing their usefulness'

Inge C. Schwerdtfeger 'Foreigner-talk: implications for foreign language teaching?'

W. Grauberg 'Review of H.H. Stern, Fundamental Concepts in Language Teaching'

M. McTear 'Review of D. Crystal, Profiling Linguistic Disability'

W. Grauberg 'Review of CILT, (Eds), Communications Skills in Modern Languages at School and in Higher Education'

 

Volume 13 (1984)

Cate Poynton 'Forms and functions: Names as vocatives'

J.R. Martin 'Functional components in grammar: A review of deployable recognition criteria'

Ruqaiya Hasan 'The nursery tale as a genre'

Eija Ventola 'The dynamics of genre'

David Butt 'Perceiving as making in the poetry of Wallace Stevens'

Jean Jaques Weber 'Deontic, axiological and epistemic distance in Graham Greene's The Honorary Consul'

Sandra A. Thompson 'Grammar and written discourse: Initial vs. final purpose clauses in English'

 

Volume 14 (1985)

Joanna Channell 'Vagueness as a conversational strategy'

Susan Hunston 'Text in World and World in Text: goals and models of scientific writing'

Michael Lumsden 'The definiteness effect and predication'

Rukmini Bhaya Nair 'Telling lies: some literary and other violations of Grice's maxim of quality'

Marion Owen 'The conversational functions of anyway'

Caroline Stainton 'Review of Oreström B. (1983), Turn-taking in English Conversation'

 

Volume 15 (2000)

Louise Mullany 'The application of current language and gender theory to managerial meeting discourse'

Joanna Gavins 'Absurd tricks with bicycle frames in the Text World of The Third Policeman'

Jayne Carroll 'Words and weapons: The Battle of Brunanburh'

Peter Stockwell 'Futuretalk: one small step towards a Chronolinguistics'

 

Volume 16 (2001)

Alan Durant 'Comprehension and Problem-Solving in the Literature Classroom'

Ida Bahar 'Linguistic Relativity And The Translation Dilemma: Reading Between The Lines In Malay Literatures In English'

Chris Williams 'Uses of the Imperative with the Progressive Form in English'

Dany Badran 'Modality and Ideology in Translated Political Texts'

Jonathan D. Picken 'Metaphor in Narrative and the Foreign Language Learner'

 

Volume 17 (2002)

Mike Handford 'Developing Sociocultural Competence in the ESL Classroom'

Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis 'Requesting strategies in English and Greek: Observations from an
Airline's Call Centre'

Melinda Tan 'Fixed Expressions in EFL: The Case for Prepositional Clusters'

Svenja Adolphs 'Genre and Spoken Discourse: Probabilities and Predictions'

Christiana Gregoriou '"Behaving Badly": A Cognitive Stylistics of the Criminal Mind'

Zonglin Chang 'A Case Study of Metaphor in Literary Readings'

 

Volume 18 (2004)

Craig Hamilton 'Modernism and its Metaphors: Rereading The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf and Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence'

Ernestine Lahey 'All the World's a Subworld: Direct Speech and Subworld Creation in "After" by Norman MacCaig'

Mujib Rahman 'Aiding the Reader: The use of Metalinguistic Devices in Scientific Discourse'

Salwa Nugali 'Picking out Irony in Robert Frost's "After Apple Picking ..."'

 

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