Charlotte Taylor

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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Just a reminder that the last day to send a proposal for a pre-conference workshop at #ICAME48 is Saturday the 31st of October 🎃📝 If you still haven't sent your workshop proposal, this is your chance! More info here www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

helsinki.fiCall for Papers | ICAME48 | University of HelsinkiAbstract submission is open! Please see instructions below. The conference theme is The Times They Are A-Changin'. We invite all submissions on corpus-based approaches to English, and especially abstr...

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

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

Looking forward to catching up, meeting and learning at #cadaad2026. Just one more train journey to go

CADAAD 2026@cadaad2026.bsky.social

Hi! Mondays feel less like Mondays when there are good news 😌 👏 thus, we start this week with the abstract of Hidalgo-Tenorio, Serafis, and Taylor's #CADAAD2026 round table (in conversation with Filardo-Llamas 😀) See you in Valladolid in ten days ☀️😎

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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

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!

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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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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.

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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...

benjamins.comRegimenting migrant storytelling: Affective positionings in the online curated stories of UK-based charity organisationsIn 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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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!

tinyurl.comResearch 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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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

Daria Dayter@coocho.bsky.social

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

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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.

Text and Language Lab@textandlanguagelab.bsky.social

📚 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 📖

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Not yet a susbcriber to Babel magazine? Well, you can find out what you're missing through the back-issue (BrE) lucky dip*! *AmE grab bag

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The #nostalgia reading group reprises in March: meeting every 2nd Tuesday of the month at 2 p.m. UK time. If you'd like to join contact @proftaylor.bsky.social or myself. See you on March 10th. You can also suggest reading (or listening) material; our next reading will be announced on Friday.

Key findings - A wide range of emotions are referenced (not only negative) - Little variation according to political orientation of speakers - Emotion talk supports two familiar tropes: binary opposition of ‘deserving’ & ‘undeserving’ migrants & mythopoetic positive representation of the UK

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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.

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#OctoConf3 news: we have a new poster aaaand 3 confirmed plenary speakers! - Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social (Discourse and Persuasion, Uni Sussex) - Massimiliano Demata (English Linguistics, University of Catania) - Katarina Pettersson (Social Psychology, Uni Helsinki)

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Water in a Changing Environment: Too much, too little, too hot Professor David M. Hannah (UNESCO Chair in Water Sciences) speaks at DHSS about how water quantity and quality respond to climate and other drivers of change. 📅 14 Jan 2026| ⏰ 12:30–14:00 📍 Nürnberger Straße 74, Room 00.013 #fau #DHSS

Would this be Frontiers previously-classed-as-predatory journals?

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social

Publisher backs ‘responsible’ AI use in peer review Frontiers says survey showing reviewers already using artificial intelligence supports transparent, “supervised” approach www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

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When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

lucynoakes1.bsky.social@lucynoakes1.bsky.social

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Very proud of this paper which is based on work by three brilliant MA students here at Sussex. They were an exceptional team to lead and they all learnt so much about how to do research by doing research

JCaDs@jcads.bsky.social

NEW Framing water for future action: Corporate communications by Smith, Bowerman, Elliot & @proftaylor.bsky.social jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10.... Offers new insights for research in ecolinguistics + methodological reflection essential to corpus & discourse studies at large

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🗣️📢LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🗣️📢 The final deadline for abstracts for CADAAD 2026 (Universidad de Valladolid) is DECEMBER 15th, 2025. There are still twelve days left for you to send your poster and presentation proposals. And remember: you'll be sad if you miss CADAAD 😉

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So happy to have been able to contribute a chapter on refugees as identity fraudsters in Spanish, Polish, and British media reporting on the “refugee crisis”. Congratulations to all of the authors!

Charlotte Taylor@proftaylor.bsky.social

📢 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