Charlotte Taylor
@proftaylor.bsky.social
Professor of Discourse & Persuasion
Rhetorics of nostalgia | migration discourses & memory | metaphor | WATER metaphors | mythopoesis | corpus linguistics | (critical) discourse analysis
Posting in a personal capacity
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9516-207
Rhetorics of nostalgia | migration discourses & memory | metaphor | WATER metaphors | mythopoesis | corpus linguistics | (critical) discourse analysis
Posting in a personal capacity
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9516-207
Ah, the self-awareness of people who move to another country because they dislike immigration / immigrants
September 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Ah, the self-awareness of people who move to another country because they dislike immigration / immigrants
Which political parties are mentioning UK newspapers you (didn't) ask (either)?
July 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Which political parties are mentioning UK newspapers you (didn't) ask (either)?
Which newspapers get talked about? (v2 inc. Guardian)
July 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Which newspapers get talked about? (v2 inc. Guardian)
Which newspapers get talked about in UK parliament debates you (didn't) ask?
Well, these ones.
The Times is consistently top, Financial Times also quite consistently relevant. The Daily Mail decreasingly so.
Data from www.clarin.si/ske/#open
Well, these ones.
The Times is consistently top, Financial Times also quite consistently relevant. The Daily Mail decreasingly so.
Data from www.clarin.si/ske/#open
July 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Which newspapers get talked about in UK parliament debates you (didn't) ask?
Well, these ones.
The Times is consistently top, Financial Times also quite consistently relevant. The Daily Mail decreasingly so.
Data from www.clarin.si/ske/#open
Well, these ones.
The Times is consistently top, Financial Times also quite consistently relevant. The Daily Mail decreasingly so.
Data from www.clarin.si/ske/#open
Serving up the literal and metaphorical #NostalgiaInTheWild
July 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Serving up the literal and metaphorical #NostalgiaInTheWild
And the (second continuing the dinosaur theme of the talk) from @perez-paredes.bsky.social on the perils of interpretation
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
July 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
And the (second continuing the dinosaur theme of the talk) from @perez-paredes.bsky.social on the perils of interpretation
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
I loved sharing a plenary on'What counts?' with the ever-brilliant @journolinguist.bsky.social at #CL2025. Not least because it led to some great conversations including two excellent illustrations that are too good not to share further
July 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I loved sharing a plenary on'What counts?' with the ever-brilliant @journolinguist.bsky.social at #CL2025. Not least because it led to some great conversations including two excellent illustrations that are too good not to share further
Campus looking as campus does when there aren't many people around to appreciate it
June 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Campus looking as campus does when there aren't many people around to appreciate it
✔️Integration of classic populist tropes
- reference to 'commonsense' to legitimate actions without evidence: "this Government will return migration policy to common sense"
- self-positioning as strong (lots of 'smashing' and 'control')
- self-positioning as victim
- reference to 'commonsense' to legitimate actions without evidence: "this Government will return migration policy to common sense"
- self-positioning as strong (lots of 'smashing' and 'control')
- self-positioning as victim
May 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
✔️Integration of classic populist tropes
- reference to 'commonsense' to legitimate actions without evidence: "this Government will return migration policy to common sense"
- self-positioning as strong (lots of 'smashing' and 'control')
- self-positioning as victim
- reference to 'commonsense' to legitimate actions without evidence: "this Government will return migration policy to common sense"
- self-positioning as strong (lots of 'smashing' and 'control')
- self-positioning as victim
✔️Focus on language as a primary sorting/value characteristic
May 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
✔️Focus on language as a primary sorting/value characteristic
✔️Binary opposition of deserving vs undeserving migrants
- 'talent' vs 'cheap labour'
NB public opinion surveys do not show that highly skilled (measured as highly paid) migrants are more welcome - bankers were the least appreciated
See also high frequency of 'irregular' and 'illegal'
- 'talent' vs 'cheap labour'
NB public opinion surveys do not show that highly skilled (measured as highly paid) migrants are more welcome - bankers were the least appreciated
See also high frequency of 'irregular' and 'illegal'
May 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
✔️Binary opposition of deserving vs undeserving migrants
- 'talent' vs 'cheap labour'
NB public opinion surveys do not show that highly skilled (measured as highly paid) migrants are more welcome - bankers were the least appreciated
See also high frequency of 'irregular' and 'illegal'
- 'talent' vs 'cheap labour'
NB public opinion surveys do not show that highly skilled (measured as highly paid) migrants are more welcome - bankers were the least appreciated
See also high frequency of 'irregular' and 'illegal'
✔️Use of water metaphors to describe people
Extra points for additional use of
-pressure/burden metaphors "pressure on public services"
- violent metaphors "inward migration exploded"
Extra points for additional use of
-pressure/burden metaphors "pressure on public services"
- violent metaphors "inward migration exploded"
May 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
✔️Use of water metaphors to describe people
Extra points for additional use of
-pressure/burden metaphors "pressure on public services"
- violent metaphors "inward migration exploded"
Extra points for additional use of
-pressure/burden metaphors "pressure on public services"
- violent metaphors "inward migration exploded"
✔️Use of nostalgia to justify current hostile action
Bonus points for erasure of role of empire in favour of ahem "strong historic international connections"
Bonus points for erasure of role of empire in favour of ahem "strong historic international connections"
May 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
✔️Use of nostalgia to justify current hostile action
Bonus points for erasure of role of empire in favour of ahem "strong historic international connections"
Bonus points for erasure of role of empire in favour of ahem "strong historic international connections"
My office view is all the blossom #SpringOnCampus
May 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
My office view is all the blossom #SpringOnCampus
I love that people are explicitly orienting to the name in that piece.
I looked up offcumden as I realised I didn't know how to spell it of course and one of the first to come up was a kind of reclaim use from people in a place I part-time grew up
I looked up offcumden as I realised I didn't know how to spell it of course and one of the first to come up was a kind of reclaim use from people in a place I part-time grew up
April 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I love that people are explicitly orienting to the name in that piece.
I looked up offcumden as I realised I didn't know how to spell it of course and one of the first to come up was a kind of reclaim use from people in a place I part-time grew up
I looked up offcumden as I realised I didn't know how to spell it of course and one of the first to come up was a kind of reclaim use from people in a place I part-time grew up
It's been such a fascinating day at #RC21 I completely forgot to post about it so heres a sunny Erlangen street instead.
Lots of new ideas and new ways of thinking about how we will work with concordances. Super looking forward to trying out the new AntConc and FlexiConc packages
Lots of new ideas and new ways of thinking about how we will work with concordances. Super looking forward to trying out the new AntConc and FlexiConc packages
March 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It's been such a fascinating day at #RC21 I completely forgot to post about it so heres a sunny Erlangen street instead.
Lots of new ideas and new ways of thinking about how we will work with concordances. Super looking forward to trying out the new AntConc and FlexiConc packages
Lots of new ideas and new ways of thinking about how we will work with concordances. Super looking forward to trying out the new AntConc and FlexiConc packages
We have chapters investigating discursive framings by those identifying as migrants & those who see themselves as part of a host population.
As we show in the introduction, the first-person experience is rarely addressed which risks normalising an assumption that only IMmigration matters
2/4
As we show in the introduction, the first-person experience is rarely addressed which risks normalising an assumption that only IMmigration matters
2/4
February 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We have chapters investigating discursive framings by those identifying as migrants & those who see themselves as part of a host population.
As we show in the introduction, the first-person experience is rarely addressed which risks normalising an assumption that only IMmigration matters
2/4
As we show in the introduction, the first-person experience is rarely addressed which risks normalising an assumption that only IMmigration matters
2/4
📢 The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities co-edited with @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dunmore
Very proud of this collection in which we have tried to shift assumptions around whose perspective we should analyse 1/4
Very proud of this collection in which we have tried to shift assumptions around whose perspective we should analyse 1/4
February 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
📢 The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities co-edited with @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dunmore
Very proud of this collection in which we have tried to shift assumptions around whose perspective we should analyse 1/4
Very proud of this collection in which we have tried to shift assumptions around whose perspective we should analyse 1/4
School report age 8
Geography and science
Clearly a long history of not turning the conference paper into an article 😳
Geography and science
Clearly a long history of not turning the conference paper into an article 😳
February 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
School report age 8
Geography and science
Clearly a long history of not turning the conference paper into an article 😳
Geography and science
Clearly a long history of not turning the conference paper into an article 😳
Also no evidence of 2024 peak for 'polarization' in the NoW corpus
December 9, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Also no evidence of 2024 peak for 'polarization' in the NoW corpus
I most miss my writing companion
December 6, 2024 at 10:26 AM
I most miss my writing companion
Pleasure to present ongoing research for @discoursenet.bsky.social today - and so much to think about from the discussion after
They will be hosting more seminars in the new year - free and online
discourseanalysis.net/en/open-disc...
They will be hosting more seminars in the new year - free and online
discourseanalysis.net/en/open-disc...
November 29, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Pleasure to present ongoing research for @discoursenet.bsky.social today - and so much to think about from the discussion after
They will be hosting more seminars in the new year - free and online
discourseanalysis.net/en/open-disc...
They will be hosting more seminars in the new year - free and online
discourseanalysis.net/en/open-disc...
It's a Brighton morning
November 20, 2024 at 7:50 AM
It's a Brighton morning
📢 Co-edited book with @nounfraze.bsky.social: Analysing Representation: A Corpus & Discourse textbook
With contributions from amazing scholars across the corpus and discourse continuum
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
With contributions from amazing scholars across the corpus and discourse continuum
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
November 15, 2024 at 1:35 PM
📢 Co-edited book with @nounfraze.bsky.social: Analysing Representation: A Corpus & Discourse textbook
With contributions from amazing scholars across the corpus and discourse continuum
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
With contributions from amazing scholars across the corpus and discourse continuum
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...