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J. Bastow Wilson

J. Bastow Wilson

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Ecology and Evolution
New Zealand
2022

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
66
Citations
20518
World Ranking
1662
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

J. Bastow Wilson was affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand. Their research primarily spanned the fields of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, with a focus on Language and Linguistics, Communication, and areas intersecting with Artificial Intelligence and Social Psychology.

The scientist's work centered on several key topics, including:

  • Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
  • Translation Studies and Practices
  • Humor Studies and Applications
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

J. Bastow Wilson frequently published in notable venues such as:

  • Journal of Pragmatics
  • Lingua
  • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
  • Languages
  • Frontiers in Education

The scientist contributed to a number of publications, reflecting their interest in language use, particularly around swearing and interpersonal communication. Selected recent papers include:

  • "The power of swearing: What we know and what we don't" (2022, Lingua)
  • "Swearing and perceptions of the speaker: A discursive approach" (2020, Journal of Pragmatics)
  • "Persian immigrants' language choice for swearing: the effects of socio-biographical variables and personality traits" (2022, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development)
  • "Editorial: Swearing and interpersonal pragmatics" (2023, Journal of Pragmatics)
  • "Censorship and Taboo Maintenance in L1 and LX Swearing" (2024, Languages)

Collaborative work featured frequent coauthors, including:

  • Kristy Beers Fägersten
  • Richard Stephens
  • Catherine Loveday
  • Nooshin Shakiba
  • Minna Hjort

Throughout their career, J. Bastow Wilson contributed to interdisciplinary studies that bridged social sciences, linguistics, and communication research. Their work provided insights into language behavior in social contexts, language diversity, and the dynamics of communication strategies especially concerning taboo language and multilingualism.

Best Publications

  • Functional richness, functional evenness and functional divergence: the primary components of functional diversity

    Norman W. H. Mason;David Mouillot;William G. Lee;J. Bastow Wilson

  • A consumer's guide to evenness indices

    Benjamin Smith;J. Bastow Wilson

  • Positive-feedback Switches in Plant Communities

    J. Bastow Wilson;Andrew D.Q. Agnew

  • Plant species richness: the world records

    J. Bastow Wilson;Robert K. Peet;Jürgen Dengler;Meelis Pärtel

  • THE INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS: PATCH DYNAMICS AND MECHANISMS OF SPECIES COEXISTENCE

    Stephen H. Roxburgh;Katriona Shea;J. Bastow Wilson

  • Evidence for limiting similarity in a sand dune community

    Wendy J. Stubbs;J. Bastow Wilson

  • Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Jason Pither;Anke Jentsch;Marcelo Sternberg

  • Methods for fitting dominance/diversity curves

    J. Bastow Wilson

  • Guilds, functional types and ecological groups

    J. Bastow Wilson

  • An index of functional diversity

    Norman W.H. Mason;Kit MacGillivray;John B. Steel;J. Bastow Wilson

  • Functional regularity: a neglected aspect of functional diversity.

    David Mouillot;Æ W. H. Norman Mason;Olivier Dumay;J. Bastow Wilson

  • INTERACTION OF IRRADIANCE AND SOIL NUTRIENT SUPPLY ON GROWTH OF SEEDLINGS OF TEN EUROPEAN TALL-SHRUB SPECIES AND FAGUS SYLVATICA

    P.J. Grubb;W.G. Lee;J. Kollmann;J.B. Wilson

  • The effect of initial advantage on the course of plant competition

    J. Bastow Wilson

  • Species redundancy: a redundant concept?

    H. Gitay;J. B. Wilson;W. G. Lee

  • Properties of ecotones: Evidence from five ecotones objectively determined from a coastal vegetation gradient

    Susan Walker;J. Bastow Wilson;John B. Steel;G.L. Rapson

  • Niche overlap estimates based on quantitative functional traits: a new family of non-parametric indices

    David Mouillot;Wendy Stubbs;Matthieu Faure;Olivier Dumay

  • The twelve theories of co‐existence in plant communities: the doubtful, the important and the unexplored

    J. Bastow Wilson

  • A demonstration of guild-based assembly rules for a plant community, and determination of intrinsic guilds

    J. Bastow Wilson;Stephen H. Roxburgh

  • Cover versus biomass as an estimate of species abundance: does it make a difference to the conclusions?

    A. Chiarucci;J. Bastow Wilson;Barbara J Anderson;V. Dominicis

  • Are there assembly rules for plant species abundance? An investigation in relation to soil resources and successional trends

    J. Bastow Wilson;Terry C. E. Wells;Ian C. Trueman;Grant Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

William G. Lee
William G. Lee Landcare Research
Alessandro Chiarucci
Alessandro Chiarucci University of Bologna
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba
Alan F. Mark
Alan F. Mark University of Otago
Martin T. Sykes
Martin T. Sykes Lund University
Peter S. White
Peter S. White University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Meelis Pärtel
Meelis Pärtel University of Tartu
Norman W. H. Mason
Norman W. H. Mason Landcare Research
Barbara J. Anderson
Barbara J. Anderson University of Otago
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University

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