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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

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Charlotte Taylor@proftaylor.bsky.social · 4w ago

Excellent news for all and especially current doctoral students who want to see the range of how a thesis can be done

Digital Scholarship @ British Library@bldigischol.bsky.social · 4w ago

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored

Sten Hansson@stenhansson.bsky.social · 4w ago

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will begin tomorrow at the University of Valladolid, Spain Programme www.cadaad2026.com/138021/secti... Hashtag #CADAAD2026 @cadaad2026.bsky.social @cadaad.bsky.social

CADAAD 2026

Welcome to CADAAD 2026 We are delighted to announce that the 2026 edition of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will be hosted by the University of Va...

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Charlotte Taylor@proftaylor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I really appreciated the opportunity to talk in this format. It would be great to see this at conferences too

Sofia Lampropoulou@sofialampro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It was a pleasure to host @proftaylor.bsky.social at @livunihss.bsky.social and bring our research projects in conversation as part of the 'Transgressive border dialogue' series. We really enjoyed the dialogic format. Thank you Stefania Tufi, Anna Saunders & @gemmabird.bsky.social for organising it!

Charlotte Taylor and I in conversation @ Wallbank lecture theatre at Uni of Liverpool
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2mo ago

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3mo ago

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Predatory recruitment ‘will cause UK university failures’. Hepi report proposes capping student numbers for high-tariff universities with soaring undergraduate recruitment. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Predatory recruitment ‘will cause UK university failures’ - Research Professional News

Hepi report proposes capping student numbers for high-tariff universities with soaring undergraduate recruitment

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Sofia Lampropoulou@sofialampro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New publication led by Paige Johnson where we point to the staticity of curated stories about migration compared to other forms of online storytelling. An excellent way to end a busy teaching year! #goodprojectswithgoodpeople Regimenting migrant storytelling benjamins.com/catalog/ip.0...

Regimenting migrant storytelling: Affective positionings in the online curated stories of UK-based charity organisations

In this study, we examine the online stories of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers curated by UK-based charity organisations. Through a mixed-methods approach, we focus on the online emergence of a positive storytelling canon that privileges certain affective positions over others. These positions feed into a problematic sense-making about migration in the UK that celebrates the stories of those migrants who incur positive (affective) changes in their lives, at the expense of potentially marginalizing others. Using a critical storytelling perspective that draws on the frameworks of affective positioning and small stories, we take one representative story as our focus to illustrate the affective participation frameworks made available to migrants. We discuss the linguistic and multimodal configuration of the story online, and the implications of the affective positions created for migrants for wider discourses about migration in the UK. Finally, we show how certain exemplary stories are static and affect-centred and do not seem to capitalise on dialogic and interactive participatory formats, unlike other forms of online storytelling. We argue that they contribute to a positive migrant storytelling canon that is well established in advocacy contexts and may have overtly empowering but covertly disempowering effects.

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Eugeニア Diegoli@diegolieugenia.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Do you know that I’m conducting a survey for my research on emotions? If your 1st language is English or Japanese, please consider taking a few minutes to answer it. It’s anonymous and there’s a small gift at the end 🫶 🇬🇧 tinyurl.com/2sxr9dje 🇯🇵 tinyurl.com/2zjvwfuf Resharing appreciated!

Research survey 'How would you feel if...?'

Thank you very much for taking part in this survey conducted by Eugenia DIEGOLI, Assistant Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies. The survey cons...

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Daria Dayter@coocho.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This week, Rachelle Vessey @rachellevessey.bsky.social will talk about "Gender ideologies in workplace surveys: The case of the Canadian military" Join us on March 13 at 16 EET (check the time zone!): tinyurl.com/talkosso @lulind.bsky.social @ylvabiri.bsky.social

The military has been identified as a gendered space where hypermasculinity seems to be a potential predictor of sexual violence and impropriety (Bonnes, 2024; Duval Lantoine, 2022; Eichler, 2019; Pershing, 2003; Stachowitsch, 2013). In Canada, while the Canadian Armed Forces institutionally espouses gender equality, in practice problems relating to gender-based harm seem “intractable” (Rubenfeld and Lucas, 2025, p. 2). The persistence of these problems could be, in part, the result of discursive practices that reinstantiate a gender-based divide in banal and mundane ways. Using a discursive approach to sexual violence and impropriety (Ehrlich, 2001; Kitzinger & Thomas, 1995), this paper identifies gender ideologies, i.e., normalized beliefs and values about gender that are shared throughout Canadian servicemembers’ language use. These gender ideologies tend to underpin arguments about sexual violence and impropriety in the Canadian military. Using a 1.6-million-word corpus of short answer responses to military surveys, corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) is used to examine gendered representations, comparing and contrasting these across subsets of data produced by male and female servicemembers. Findings reveal both explicit representations via overuse of gendered labels and more subtle mechanisms of representations via metaphor and personal pronouns. The paper concludes by highlighting the role of gendered ideologies in attempts to discredit accounts of sexual violence and impropriety.
Daria Dayter@coocho.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Have you missed us? OSSO / DDI online lecture series is back for one more season! This spring: Rachelle Vessey - 13 March Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen - 17 April Dominika Kovacova - 4 May Join the Zoom room: tinyurl.com/talkosso

March 13 | 15-16 CET Rachelle Vessey (Carleton University) Gender ideologies in workplace surveys: The case of the Canadian military April 17 | 13-14 CEST Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (University of Helsinki) My bad: the metapragmatics of accountability on social media May 4 | 12-13 CEST Dominika Beneš Kováčová (Masaryk University) Rapport management and community building in audience reactions to rapport-challenging posts by manosphere influencers
Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)@rc21project.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For today's World Book Day, @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social are giving you a taste of all the books to explore on www.clic-ficiton.com. Using the FlexiConc tab developed by RC21 gives you even more options to see how books were described in 19th century literature.

Screenshot of a concordance of "book" and "books" from a corpus of 19th century novels on CLiC. the lines are ranked by the number of words that end in ing, highlighting lines with multiple gerund forms, for instance: "looking at her instead of the book. She continued reading, or seeking for something to read. "
Text and Language Lab@textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📚 World Book Day in the UK is special with CLiC We celebrate with you by inviting you to explore and read some of the most famous novels in the English literary canon with CLiC, which you can access freely at clic-fiction.com. #WorldBookDay #DigitalHumanities #Clic #CorpusLinguistics 📖

Charlotte Taylor@proftaylor.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢New chapter: Emotion talk in UK parliamentary debates on migration I look at the rhetorical use of explicit references to pride & gratitude, shame & regret, fear & tolerance Free to download: www.peterlang.com/document/147...

Peter Lang Verlag - Representing Migration: Discursive and Methodological Perspectives from Triangulated Fields

This book delves into how migration is depicted through multilingual discourses, blending corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. Emerging ...

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Catherine Fletcher@catherinefletcher.info · 6mo ago

I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.

Charlotte Taylor@proftaylor.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“We must not run scared of Reform. They will always outdo us in hostility. What we have got to do is to say that certain basic human rights principles must apply." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees

Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t ‘just do things because of their background’

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