DORA (De Montfort Open Research Archive)
DORA (De Montfort Open Research Archive) is De Montfort University's research repository. It forms the primary public and institutional record of DMU research outputs. DORA currently lists over 10,000 items, and the breadth of research at DMU means that these include articles, conference papers, books, book chapters, and other material available in a digital form. The record for each item contains descriptive information as well as, where possible, a version of the final research output. Since January 2009 electronic deposit of PhD theses has also been mandatory and to date over 700 theses are available from DORA.
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Animal Abuse
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Insurrection! The Capitol Riot of January 6 2021: temporal development, political hyperbole, and the democracy/state conflation
(Book chapter)This chapter reviews the discursive framework within which a range of civic-minded US commentators presented the Capitol incursion. My particular concern is the depiction of the event as an insurrection, a pivotal claim ... -
Dark Vision, Global Impact: Christopher Nolan, Box Office Hit Patterns and Interstellar
(Book chapter)This essay surveys the career of Christopher Nolan, with a focus on his Warner Bros. period (2002-2020). It establishes the extraordinary level of box office success of most of his film from this period, and the fact that ... -
The use of Husserl's phenomenology in nursing research: A discussion paper
(Article)Aims To discuss how Husserl's descriptive phenomenology, as a philosophy and approach, has been used and reported in researching the experiences of others, using the topic of foreign-trained nurses. Design Discussion ... -
Pragmatic inference, levels of meaning and speaker accountability
(Article)Are speakers held more accountable for what they explicitly communicate than for what they implicate? Speakers typically communicate more than they linguistically encode, thus leaving to addressees the task of inferring ...