Publications

You can see all my current and forthcoming publications here.

See also:

• My Pure Portal
• My ORCID

Published

Turner, S., & Littlemore, J. (2023, in press). The Many Faces of Creativity: Exploring Synaesthesia through a Metaphorical Lens. Cambridge Elements.  

Turner, S., Littlemore, J., Parr, E., Taylor, J., & Topping, A. (2022). ‘Lights in the darkness’, Part 2: Characterising effective communication with professional groups following the death of a child. Mortality. 

Turner, S., Littlemore, J., Parr, E., Taylor, J., & Topping, A. (2022). ‘Lights in the darkness’, Part 1: Characterising effective communication with professional groups following the death of a child. Mortality. 

Turner, S., Littlemore, J., Parr, E., Taylor, J., & Topping, A. (2022). ‘Metaphors that shape parents’ perceptions of effective communication with healthcare practitioners following child death: a qualitative UK study’. BMJ Open 12(1). 

Fuoli, M., Littlemore, J., & Turner, S. (2021). ‘Sunken ships and screaming banshees: Metaphor and evaluation in film reviews.’ English Language and Linguistics 26(1), 75-103.  

Turner, S. (2021). ‘Multimodal Discourse Analysis’ in S. Pihlaja (ed.), Religious Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Austin, L., Littlemore, J., McGuinness, S., Turner, S., Fuller, D., & Kuberska, K. (2021). Effective Communication Following Pregnancy Loss: A Study in England. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 30(1), 175-187. 

Kuberska, K., Fuller, D., Littlemore, J., McGuinness, S. and Turner, S. (2020). ‘Death before Birth: Liminal Bodies and Legal Frameworks.’ Ed. C. Dietz, M. Travis, & M. Thomson. A Jurisprudence of the Body. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 149-178. 

Tovey, R., & Turner, S. (2020). Stillbirth memento photography. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine, 43(1), 2-16. 

Littlemore, J., McGuinness, S., Fuller, D., Kuberska, K., & Turner, S. (2020). Death before birth: Understanding, informing and supporting choices made by people who have experienced miscarriage, termination and stillbirth. MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, 30(2), 251-255. 

Littlemore, J., & Turner, S. (2020). Metaphors in communication about pregnancy loss. Metaphor and the Social World, 10(1), 45-75. 

Turner, S., Littlemore, J., Burgess, M., Fuller, D., McGuinness, S., & Kuberska, K. (2020). The production of time-related metaphors by people who have experienced pregnancy loss. In A. Gargett & J. Barnden (Eds.), Producing Figurative Expression. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 389-418. 

Littlemore, J., & Turner, S. (2019). What Can Metaphor Tell Us About Experiences of Pregnancy Loss and How Are These Experiences Reflected in Midwife Practice? Frontiers in Communication, 4. 

Kuberska, K., & Turner, S. (2019). The presence of absence: Tensions and frictions of pregnancy losses–An introduction. Women’s Studies International Forum 74, 91-93. 

Fuller, D., McGuinness, S., Littlemore, J., Kuberska, K., Turner, S., Austin, L., & Burgess, M. (2018). Death before birth: Understanding, informing and supporting choices made by people who have experienced miscarriage, termination and still birth: Preliminary project findings for meeting with representatives of the Department of Health and Social Care.  

Wan, W., & Turner, S. (2018). Applying metaphor analysis to academic literacy research: A critical review over 30 years. Metaphor and the Social World 8(2), 286-311.  

Turner, S. (2016). Book Review of ‘Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor’, ed. Francisco Gonzálvez-García, María Sandra Peña Cervel and Lorena Pérez Hernández. Metaphor and the Social World 6(1), 169-175. 

Turner, S. (2014). ‘Tomasello’s Theory of First Language Acquisition’. In J. Littlemore & J. Taylor. (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics, 91-102. London: Bloomsbury. 

Littlemore, J., Krennmayr, T., Turner, J. and Turner, S. (2014). An Investigation into Metaphor Use at Different Levels of Second Language Writing. Applied Linguistics 35(2), 117-144. 

Littlemore, J., Krennmayr, T., Turner, J. and Turner, S. (2012). Investigating Figurative Proficiency at Different Levels of Second Language Writing, Cambridge ESOL Funded Research Programme Round 2, Final Report. Cambridge ESOL Examinations Research Notes, 47, 14-26. 

Publications in Professional Magazines 

Littlemore, J., Turner, S., Parr, E., Taylor, J. and Topping, A. (2021). ‘”He was very kind and you know, very understanding and sympathetic and said the right things. It’s a sort of gift isn’t it?” Communicating Effectively When Helping Parents to Organise a Funeral for Their Child’. Funeral Directors Monthly, March edition. 

Turner, S., Littlemore, J., Parr, E., Taylor, J. and Topping, A. (2021). ‘Maintaining identity is important’. SAIF Insight, Journal of the Society of Independent Funeral Directors, 227.  

Parr, E., Turner, S., Littlemore, J., Taylor, J. and Topping, A. (2020). ‘Communicating effectively with parents whose child has died’. Resurgam – The Journal of the Federation of Burial and Cremation Authorities 63(4).  

Littlemore, J., McGuinness, S., Dandy, P., Fuller, D., Kuberska, K., & Turner, S. (2019). Arranging a funeral following a pregnancy loss. Resurgam – The Journal of the Federation of Burial and Cremation Authorities, 62(4), 52-55. 

Littlemore, J., Turner, S., & Rumbold, K. (2018). Pregnancy loss: how to find the right words to talk about it. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/pregnancy-loss-how-to-find-the-right-words-to-talk-about-it-100915 

Publications Under Review/Under Contract 

Turner, S., & Littlemore, J. (Under revision). ‘Literal or metaphorical? Conventional or innovative? Contested metaphoricity in intense emotional experiences.’ Metaphor and the Social World. 

Littlemore, J., Turner, S., & Tuck, P. (2023, under contract). Creative Metaphor, Emotion and Evaluation in Conversations about Work. Routledge Focus.