forthcoming

Wilson, J. J. (in press) Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture. Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press.

journal articles and chapters

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book reviews

Wilson, J. J., Watson, J.C.E, Oudyk, A., and al-Qumairi, S. (2022) Language, Gesture and Ecology in Modern South Arabian Languages. In Watson, J.C.E., Lovett, J.C., and Morano, R. (eds.) Language and Ecology in Southern and Eastern Arabia Bloomsbury
Morris, L. E., Innes, A., Smith, S. K., Wilson, J. J., Bushell, S. and Wyatt M. E. (2021) 'A qualitative evaluation of the impact of a Good Life Club on people living with dementia and care partners', Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 20 (7), 2478-2493.
Price, H. and Wilson, J. J. (2019) Relevance Theory and Metaphor: An analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’ Language and Literature, 28 (1)
Wilson, J. J. and Price, H. (2018) Courtroom Data and Politeness Research: A case for Neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics. The Journal of Politeness Research, 14(1): 63-95
Watson, J. C. E. and Wilson, J. J. (2017) Gesture in Modern South Arabian languages: Variation in multimodal constructions during task-based interaction. Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 9: 49–72
Merrison, A. J., Wilson, J. J., Davies, B. L., and Haugh, M. (2012) Getting Stuff Done: Comparing ‘E-mail Requests’ from Students in Higher Education in Britain and Australia. Journal of Pragmatics, 44: 1077–1098
Wilson, J.J. (2022) 'Panther K. (2022) Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics' Journal of Pragmatics 206:1-4
Wilson, J.J. (2021) 'Piskorska, A. (ed.) Relevance theory, figuration, and continuity in Pragmatics' Journal of Pragmatics 178:18-20

conference presentations, posters, and invited talks

conference presentations

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conference panels

2021 Wilson, J.J. (2021) 'Inferring meaning from composite utterances: The flexibility of multimodal communicative acts'. Paper presented at 17th International Pragmatics Conference, 29th June 2021.
Boom, A., Wilson, J.J., Watson, J.C.E. (2021) 'From Naming to Numbers'. Paper presented at 5th International Conference on Ecolinguistics, 13th April 2021
2017 Wilson, J. J. and Watson, J. C. E. (2017) 'The expression of direction and Orientation in Two Modern South Arabian language'. Paper presented at NACAL 45, 10th June 2017. Leiden.
Wilson, J. J. (2017) 'Semantic Gestures'. Paper presented at SPiNfest, 26th May 2017. Manchester.
Price, H. & Wilson, J. (2017) ‘Metaphor, performance and comprehension: an analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’’. Paper presented at PALA 2017: Interdisciplinary Stylistics, University of West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA, 19-22 July.
2016 Wilson, J. & Price, H. (2016) ‘We’re not in a club now’: A neo-Peircean analysis of the co-construction of appropriate behaviour during a courtroom interaction’. Paper presented at LIAR IV, Manchester Metropolitan University, 12-14 July.
2015 Wilson, J. J., Price, H., and Merrison, A. J. (2015) We’re not in a club now: A semiotic analysis of the co-construction of appropriate behaviour during a courtroom interaction. Paper presented at iMean4, 9th April 2015. Warwick
2014 Wilson, J. J. (2014) To gesture or not to gesture: Investigating the composition of multimodal communicative acts and their utility during a map task. Paper presented at University of Leeds postgraduate conference on Mulitmodality, August 2014. Leeds.
2013 Wilson, J. J. (2013) Projective Gestures: Investigating the utility of manual movements during a map task. Paper presented at University of York Postgraduate Linguistics conference, PARLAY, September 2013. York.
Wilson, J. J. and Little, Hannah, R. (2013). Emerging languages in esoteric and exoteric niches: Evidence from rural sign languages. Paper presented at Ways to Protolanguage 3, May 2013. Wroclaw.
2015 Wilson, J. J., Price, H., and Merrison, A. J. (2015) Impoliteness in Court: A case study of Penelope Soto. iMean4. Warwick.

posters

2019 Wilson, J.J. and Argyriou, P. (2019) When do speakers share gesture perspective? Poster presented at Body-Up Conference. 13th June 2019, Manchester.
2016 Wilson, J.J. (2016) Communicating with gestures? Comparing two theories of multimodality to assess the use of gestures accompanying the preposition “around”. Poster presented at the International Society for Gesture Studies conference, July 21st 2016, Paris.

invited talks

2018 Wilson, J.J. (2018) The importance of gesture for documenting language: A study of gesture in Modern South Arabian Languages. Invited presentation at The University of Huddersfield, 7th November 2018, Huddersfield.
2017 Elan Workshop. Invited workshop at University of Huddersfield, 2nd November 2017
2017 Wilson, J. J. (2017) Gesture and spatial description in English and Modern South Arabian languages. Invited presentation at MPI 8th June 2017, Nijmegen.
Wilson, J. J. (2017) What are gestures used for doing? Invited presentation as part of York St John Colloquium Lecture Series 8th November 2017, York
2011 Wilson, J. J. (2011) Student researchers: What are they worth?. Paper presented as Keynote at The Student Researchers Conference: “Thinking Out Loud II”, November 2011. York.