Laura Louise Paterson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laura Louise Paterson is involved.
2024 Same-sex marriage, gay marriage, or equal marriage? Category construction in a corpus of 21st century newspaper texts Journal of Language and Sexuality 13:2, pp. 129–153 | Article
Changes to marriage legislation across the globe have received much academic and public attention. However, the labels used to categorise different marital configurations are somewhat under researched. In this paper we analyse the premodification of marriage in a corpus of UK newspaper articles… read more
2020 Electronic supplement analysis of multiple texts: Exploring discourses of UK poverty in Below the Line comments International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:1, pp. 62–88 | Article
This paper adapts O’Halloran’s (2010) electronic supplement analysis (ESA) to investigate debates about UK poverty in online newspaper articles and reader responses to those articles. While O’Halloran’s method was originally conceived to facilitate close reading, this paper modifies ESA for… read more
2018 Discourses of marriage in same-sex marriage debates in the UK press 2011–2014 Corpus Linguistics in Language and Sexuality Studies: Developments and Prospects, Motschenbacher, Heiko (ed.), pp. 175–204 | Article
This paper interrogates media representations of same-sex marriage debates in the UK using a combination of corpus linguistics tools and close reading, and drawing on Queer Linguistics. Following related work by Bachmann (2011), Baker (2004), and Love and Baker (2015), we analyse a 1.3… read more
2017 “Reservoir of rage swamps Wall St”: The linguistic construction and evaluation of Occupy in international print media Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 5:1, pp. 57–80 | Article
Originating on New York’s Wall Street, the Occupy movement was “an international network of protests against social and economic inequality that began in [September] 2011 in response to the downturn of 2008” (Thorson et al. 2013, 427). Whilst there has been research on online activity in… read more
2015 Implicit homophobic argument structure: Equal-marriage discourse in The Moral Maze Journal of Language and Sexuality 4:1, pp. 102–137 | Article
This article analyses the linguistic and discursive elements which contribute to the production of implicit homophobia. Explicit homophobia has been well documented and strategies for countering discriminatory language have been developed (Baker 2014, Leap 2012). However, our interest here is in… read more