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James M. Stratton

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Books

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Stratton, James. (under contract). Intensifiers in Early Germanic: A variationist perspective. Cambridge University Press.

Stratton, James. (accepted). Adjective intensifiers in Middle English: A variationist sociolinguistic analysis. Cambridge University Press.

Stratton, James & Karen Beaman. (2025) (Eds.). Expanding variationist sociolinguistic research in varieties of German. Routledge.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

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Stratton, James. (2026). Issues of faithfulness and sampling in historical corpora: Challenges and recommendations. Journal of English Linguistics, 54(2), 83-108.

Stratton, James. (2025). Explicit pronunciation instruction in the second language classroom. An acoustic and impressionistic analysis of German fricatives. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 11(13), 338-362.

Stratton, James. (2025). The effects of production training on speech perception in L2 learners of German. Journal of Phonetics, 108, 101370.

Stratton, James. (2023). Where did wer go? Lexical variation and change in third-person male adult noun referents in Old and Middle English. Language Variation and Change, 35(2), 199-221.

Stratton, James. (2023). Explicit pronunciation instruction in the second language classroom: An acoustic analysis of German final devoicing. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 9(1), 71-102.

Stratton, James. (2023). Implicit and explicit instruction in the second language classroom: A study of learner preferences in higher education. Unterrichtspraxis, 56(2), 103-117.

Stratton, James. (2022). Intentional and incidental vocabulary learning: The role of historical linguistics in the second language classroom. The Modern Language Journal, 106(4), 837-857.

Stratton, James & John Sundquist. (2022). A variationist sociolinguistic analysis of intensifiers in Oslo Norwegian. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 34(4), 385-419.

Stratton, James. (2022). Old English intensifiers. The beginnings of the English intensifier system. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 12(1), 31-69.

Stratton, James. (2022). Tapping into German adjective variation. A variationist sociolinguistic approach. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 34(1), 63-102.

Stratton, James. (2021). 'That's proper cool'. The emerging intensifier proper in British English. English Today, 37(4), 206-213.

Stratton, James. (2020). Adjective intensifiers in German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 32(2), 183-215.

Stratton, James. (2020). A diachronic analysis of the adjective intensifier well from Early Modern English to Present Day English. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 65(2), 216-245.

Stratton, James. (2020). Fiction as a source of linguistic data: Evidence from television drama. Token: A Journal of English Linguistics, 10, 39-58.

Stratton, James. (2018). The use of the adjective intensifier well in British English: A case study of The Inbetweeners. English Studies, 99(8), 793-816.

Stratton, James. (2018). The use of the generic masculine, the derivational suffix -in and gender-fair innovations in unrehearsed spoken dialogue in Modern Standard German. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis, 23(1), 1-52.

Peer-Reviewed Handbook Chapter

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Stratton, James. (2020). Corpora and diachronic analysis of English. In Eric Friginal & Jack A. Hardy (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of corpus approaches to discourse analysis (pp. 202-218). London & New York: Routledge.

Peer-Reviewed Volume Chapters

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Stratton, James. (2025). The social conditioning of lexical items for man in British English. The demise of man and the rise of guy. In R. Sandow & N. Braber (Eds.), Sociolinguistic approaches to lexical variation in English (pp. 157-172). Routledge.

Stratton, James. (2025). British English. In K. Bolton et al., (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of world Englishes, Volume I (pp. 478-489). Wiley.

Stratton, James & Karen Beaman. (2025). Fei schee: The social meaning of intensifier use in Swabian. In James Stratton & Karen Beaman (Eds.), Expanding variationist sociolinguistic research in varieties of German (pp. 111-131). Routledge.

Stratton, James. (2024). Gendered variation in spoken German. Has prescriptivism affected the vernacular? In Tina Boyer & Heiko Wiggers (Eds.), Germanic philology: Perspectives in linguistics and literature (pp. 111-136). Delaware: Vernon Press.

Book Reviews

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Stratton, James. (2025). [Review of the book Intensifiers in Late Modern English: A sociopragmatic approach to courtroom discourse, by Claudia Claridge, Ewa Jonsson & Merja Kytö, 2024], English Language & Linguistics, 30(1), 201-206.

Stratton, James. (2024). [Review of the book Sociolinguistic variation in Old English: Records of communities and people, by Olga Timofeeva, 2022], Research in Corpus Linguistics, 13(1), 221-224.

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