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Dr Emma Moreton
BA, MPhil, PhD, FHEA

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2025

2020

Written corpora

Gardner, S., & Moreton, E. (2020). Written corpora. In The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities (pp. 26-48). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003031758-3

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10.4324/9781003031758-3
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2019

Identifying speech acts in a corpus of historical migrant correspondence

De Felice, R., & Moreton, E. (2019). Identifying speech acts in a corpus of historical migrant correspondence. Studia Neophilologica, 91(2), 154-174. doi:10.1080/00393274.2019.1616216

DOI
10.1080/00393274.2019.1616216
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Homesickness, recollections and reunions

Moreton, E., & Culy, C. (2019). Homesickness, recollections and reunions. In Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics (pp. 87-118). John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi:10.1075/ahs.10.05mor

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10.1075/ahs.10.05mor
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‘I never could forget my darling mother’: the language of recollection in a corpus of female Irish emigrant correspondence

Moreton, E. (2019). ‘I never could forget my darling mother’: the language of recollection in a corpus of female Irish emigrant correspondence. In Migrant Letters (pp. 35-56). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203711835-3

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10.4324/9780203711835-3
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2018

'We work hard here' Exploring Person and Place Deixis in a Corpus of Historical Migrant Letters

Moreton, E. (2019). 'We work hard here' Exploring Person and Place Deixis in a Corpus of Historical Migrant Letters. In RETHINKING LANGUAGE, TEXT AND CONTEXT: INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN STYLISTICS IN HONOUR OF MICHAEL TOOLAN (pp. 79-102). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/

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2017

The Migrant Letter Digitised: Visualising Metadata

O’Leary, N., & Moreton, E. (2017). The Migrant Letter Digitised: Visualising Metadata. Journal of Cultural Analytics. doi:10.22148/16.013

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10.22148/16.013
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2016

Letters from America: Themes and methods in the study of Irish emigrant correspondence

Moreton, E. (2016). Letters from America: Themes and methods in the study of Irish emigrant correspondence. In The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing (pp. 198-215).

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Letters from America: Themes and methods in the study of Irish emigrant correspondence

Moreton, E. (2016). Letters from America: Themes and methods in the study of Irish emigrant correspondence. In The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing. Edinburgh University Press. Retrieved from https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/

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Migration Databases as Impact Tools in the Education and Heritage Sectors

Amador-Moreno, C. P., Corrigan, K. P., McCafferty, K., & Moreton, E. (2016). Migration Databases as Impact Tools in the Education and Heritage Sectors. In Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora (pp. 25-67). Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-38645-8_2

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10.1057/978-1-137-38645-8_2
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2015

2014

Visualising the Emigrant Letter

Moreton, E., O’Leary, N., & O’Sullivan, P. (2014). Visualising the Emigrant Letter. Revue européenne des migrations internationales, 30(3-4), 49-69. doi:10.4000/remi.7081

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10.4000/remi.7081
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2013

Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence Collections

Moreton, E. (2013). Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence Collections. In Unknown Book (pp. 97-126). Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781118508206.ch4

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10.1002/9781118508206.ch4
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Book Review: Dan McIntyre and Beatrix Busse, <i>Language and Style: In Honour of Mick Short</i>

Moreton, E. (2013). Book Review: Dan McIntyre and Beatrix Busse, <i>Language and Style: In Honour of Mick Short</i>. Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 22(1), 95-98. doi:10.1177/0963947012462950

DOI
10.1177/0963947012462950
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2012

Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence Collections

Moreton, E. (2012). Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence Collections. Gender &amp; History, 24(3), 617-646. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2012.01699.x

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10.1111/j.1468-0424.2012.01699.x
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EFL/ESL Writers and the Use of Shell Nouns

Nesi, H., & Moreton, E. (2012). EFL/ESL Writers and the Use of Shell Nouns. In Academic Writing in a Second or Foreign Language: Issues and Challenges Facing ESL/EFL Academic Writers in Higher Education Contexts (pp. 126-145).

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2009

Book Review: The Body in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction by Donald E. Hardy, 2007. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, pp. ix + 188 ISBN 978 1 57003 698 9 (hbk)

Moreton, E. (2009). Book Review: The Body in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction by Donald E. Hardy, 2007. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, pp. ix + 188 ISBN 978 1 57003 698 9 (hbk). Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 18(4), 396-399. doi:10.1177/09639470090180040801

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10.1177/09639470090180040801
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