Charlotte Taylor
List of John Benjamins publications in which Charlotte Taylor is involved.
Journal
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Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis
Charlotte Taylor
This volume presents an in-depth analysis of mock politeness, bringing together research from different academic fields and investigating a range of first-order metapragmatic labels for mock politeness in British English and Italian. It is the first book-length theorisation and detailed description… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 267] 2016. xiii, 232 pp.
Patterns and Meanings in Discourse: Theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)
Alan Partington, Alison Duguid and Charlotte Taylor
This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 55] 2013. xiii, 371 pp.
2022 The affordances of metaphor for diachronic corpora & discourse analysis: water metaphors and migration Corpus studies of language through time: Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 (2022), McEnery, Tony, Gavin Brookes and Isobelle Clarke (eds.), pp. 451–479 | Article
This paper examines the utility of metaphor as an investigative tool in “long-distance” corpora and discourse studies. I show that metaphor is both important for understanding discourses and useful for diachronic analysis because it allows us to abstract out above the purely lexical level,… read more
2019 Chapter 1. A comparative analysis of the keyword multicultural(ism) in French, British, German and Italian migration discourse Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis, Viola, Lorella and Andreas Musolff (eds.), pp. 13–44 | Chapter
This chapter looks into discourses about migration in four European countries through the lens of cultural keywords (cf. Williams 1983; Bennett et al. 2005; Wierzbicka 1997); using Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis, it compares the use of the keywords multicultural and multiculturalism. The study… read more
2017 Chapter 2. Togetherness or othering? COMMUNITY and comunità in the UK and Italian press Representing the Other in European Media Discourses, Chovanec, Jan and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska (eds.), pp. 55–80 | Chapter
This chapter addresses the theme of othering by reporting on preliminary work from a European project aimed at building a dictionary of migration discourse keywords. The chapter investigates the use of the terms COMMUNITY and comunità in two British and Italian newspapers (Guardian, Times,… read more
2014 Investigating the representation of migrants in the UK and Italian press: A cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse analysis International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:3, pp. 368–400 | Article
This paper is a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse study of the representation of migrants in the Italian and UK press and it adopts a two-stage methodological approach. In the first phase, the number of references to nationalities which collocate with refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants,… read more






