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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

LinkedIn is wild. Who's going to break the news to the conversation analysts that no-one has yet studied um conversation?

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Search triggered by this headline - in which the 'simpler times' are not those of the text world so much as the cultural context of the first adaptation

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The #nostalgia for 'simpler times'. Ever present but increasing? Spoiler alert: the imagined simpler times are very much not the same period.

Google ngrams for the phrase simpler times. Shows this occurs from early 1800s onwards but peaks in present period

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Ah, the self-awareness of people who move to another country because they dislike immigration / immigrants

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Which political parties are mentioning UK newspapers you (didn't) ask (either)?

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Which newspapers get talked about? (v2 inc. Guardian)

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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

Graph showing frequency of mentions of newspapers in UK parliament. The Times is the most frequently mentioned overall. The Daily Mail shows a dip in mentions.

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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...

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Late train means I get a 10 o'clock sunset on my way to #cl2025

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Campus looking as campus does when there aren't many people around to appreciate it

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

✔️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

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

✔️Focus on language as a primary sorting/value characteristic

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

✔️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'

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

✔️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"

examples of water metaphors such as surge in illegal migration

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

✔️Use of nostalgia to justify current hostile action Bonus points for erasure of role of empire in favour of ahem "strong historic international connections"

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

📢 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

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

School report age 8 Geography and science Clearly a long history of not turning the conference paper into an article 😳

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Also no evidence of 2024 peak for 'polarization' in the NoW corpus

Chart showing frequency of polarization by year. Highest peak is 2021.

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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...

Screenshot of title slide from presentation. Title was Emotion-talk in parliamentary debates on migration: Work in progress

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

📢 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...

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

📢 Co-edited book: New approaches to language and identity in contexts of migration and diaspora Fabulous sociolinguistics work coming out of the Approaches to Migration, Language & Identity conference hosted at University of Sussex www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

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