All Stories

  1. How We Talk About Animals, and Why it Matters

    Article • January 2025, Bloomsbury Academic

    Professor Alison Sealey

  2. Translation

    Article • Target International Journal of Translation Studies, February 2019, John Benjamins

    Professor Alison Sealey

  3. Being an English academic: a social domains account

    Article • Language and Intercultural Communication, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alison Sealey

  4. First catch your corpus: methodological challenges in constructing a thematic corpus

    Article • Corpora, August 2018, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Chris Pak, Professor Alison Sealey

  5. Animals, animacy and anthropocentrism

    Article • International Journal of Language and Culture, June 2018, John Benjamins

    Professor Alison Sealey

  6. Book Reviews and Forum Contributions in Applied Linguistics—Continuity and Change

    Article • Applied Linguistics, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alison Sealey

  7. Realist Social Theory and Multilingualism in Europe

    Article • European Journal of Applied Linguistics, March 2015, De Gruyter

    Professor Alison Sealey

  8. Cats and categories — reply to Teubert

    Article • Language and Dialogue, September 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Alison Sealey

  9. “What Do Animals Mean to You?”: Naming and Relating to Nonhuman Animals

    Article • Anthrozoös, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alison Sealey

  10. Response to Elder-Vass: “Seven Ways to be A Realist about Language”

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Alison Sealey

  11. Anthropomorphic grammar? Some linguistic patterns in the wildlife documentary series Life

    Article • Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Professor Alison Sealey

  12. Why did the Canada goose cross the sea? Accounting for the behaviour of wildlife in the documentary series Life

    Article • International Journal of Applied Linguistics, January 2013, Wiley

    Professor Alison Sealey

  13. Realism

    Article • November 2012, Wiley

    Professor Alison Sealey

  14. ‘I just couldn't do it’: representations of constraint in an oral history corpus

    Article • Critical Discourse Studies, August 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alison Sealey

  15. BAAL/CUP Seminars 2010

    Article • Language Teaching, November 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alison Sealey

  16. Probabilities and Surprises: A Realist Approach to Identifying Linguistic and Social Patterns, with Reference to an Oral History Corpus

    Article • Applied Linguistics, June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alison Sealey

  17. Linguistic ethnography in realist perspective1

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, October 2007, Wiley

    Professor Alison Sealey

  18. Corpus, Concordance, Classification: Young Learners in the L1 Classroom

    Article • Language Awareness, August 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alison Sealey

  19. Through children’s eyes?

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, March 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Alison Sealey, Dr Paul Thompson

  20. Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, March 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Alison Sealey

  21. BOOK REVIEWS

    Article • Educational Review, November 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alison Sealey

  22. “Nice things get said”: corpus evidence and the National Literacy Strategy

    Article • Literacy, March 2006, Wiley

    Professor Alison Sealey

  23. ‘What do you call the dull words?’ Primary school children using corpus-based approaches to learn about language

    Article • English in Education, March 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alison Sealey

  24. Book reviews

    Article • Educational Review, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alison Sealey

  25. Language, structure and agency: What can realist social theory offer to sociolinguistics?

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, February 2000, Wiley

    Professor Alison Sealey

  26. Teaching Primary School Children about the English Language: A Critique of Current Policy Documents

    Article • Language Awareness, April 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alison Sealey

  27. Don’t be cheeky’: Requests, directives and being a child

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, February 1999, Wiley

    Professor Alison Sealey

  28. Models of Language, Models of Childhood in the English National Curriculum

    Article • Changing English, March 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alison Sealey

  29. do You Think You Are?': Four Sociolinguistic Strategies in the of Self

    Article • Current Issues In Language and Society, April 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alison Sealey

  30. What do they mean? An analysis of one young child’s language awareness

    Article • International Journal of Early Childhood, March 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alison Sealey

  31. The use of corpus-based approaches in children's knowledge about language

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alison Sealey