Colleen Cotter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1014804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colleen Cotter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Cotter |
| SIGNATURE | COTTER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4618-9772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable
Swearwords influence social evaluation of a speaker in a variety of ways depending on social context (Jay & Janschewitz (2008), The pragmatics of swearing. Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture , 4(2), 267–288). Little attention has been paid to the role of linguistic variation in social perceptions of swearing, however. This paper presents two experiments that test the role of sociolinguistic variation in the social evalua…
Framing obesity in public discourse: Representation through metaphor across text type
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Media
Routledge Handbook of Language and Media
Revising The “Journalist’S Bible”. How News Practitioners Respond To Language And Social Change
Women's place at the Fourth Estate: Constraints on voice, text, and topic
Diversity awareness and the role of language in cultural representations in news stories
Towards a linguistics of news production
News Talk: Investigating the Language of Journalism
Written by a former news reporter and editor, News Talk gives us an insider's view of the media, showing how journalists select and construct their news stories. Colleen Cotter goes behind the scenes, revealing how language is chosen and shaped by news staff into the stories we read and hear. Tracing news stories from start to finish, she shows how the actions of journalists and editors - and the limitations of news writing formulas - may distort…
UrbanDictionary.com
In traditional English lexicography, individual dictionary editors have had ultimate control over the selection, meaning, and illustration of words and extensive collaboration with contributors has been limited. However, Internet technologies that easily permit exchanges between a user and a database have allowed a new type of dictionary online: one that is built by the collaboration of contributing end-users, allowing users who are not trained l…
Prescription and practice: Motivations behind change in news discourse
The use of sentence-initial connectives (and, but) in written discourse historically has been disfavored, including by newspaper copy editors who delete them. This article describes changes in the frequency and use of sentence-initial connectives in news stories over the course of the twentieth century, from their relative absence to a semi-conventionalized frequency of use. Connectives have both referential (or semantic) meaning and functional (…
Focus in Irish and English: Contrast and Contact
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
Prosodic Aspects of Broadcast News Register
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Semantic Typology and Semantic Universals (1993)
Towards a linguistics of news production
Diversity awareness and the role of language in cultural representations in news stories
Framing obesity in public discourse: Representation through metaphor across text type
Prescription and practice: Motivations behind change in news discourse
The use of sentence-initial connectives (and, but) in written discourse historically has been disfavored, including by newspaper copy editors who delete them. This article describes changes in the frequency and use of sentence-initial connectives in news stories over the course of the twentieth century, from their relative absence to a semi-conventionalized frequency of use. Connectives have both referential (or semantic) meaning and functional (…
Women's place at the Fourth Estate: Constraints on voice, text, and topic
Prosodic Aspects of Broadcast News Register
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Semantic Typology and Semantic Universals (1993)
Focus in Irish and English: Contrast and Contact
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
Prescription and practice: Motivations behind change in news discourse
The use of sentence-initial connectives (and, but) in written discourse historically has been disfavored, including by newspaper copy editors who delete them. This article describes changes in the frequency and use of sentence-initial connectives in news stories over the course of the twentieth century, from their relative absence to a semi-conventionalized frequency of use. Connectives have both referential (or semantic) meaning and functional (…
UrbanDictionary.com
In traditional English lexicography, individual dictionary editors have had ultimate control over the selection, meaning, and illustration of words and extensive collaboration with contributors has been limited. However, Internet technologies that easily permit exchanges between a user and a database have allowed a new type of dictionary online: one that is built by the collaboration of contributing end-users, allowing users who are not trained l…
News Talk: Investigating the Language of Journalism
Written by a former news reporter and editor, News Talk gives us an insider's view of the media, showing how journalists select and construct their news stories. Colleen Cotter goes behind the scenes, revealing how language is chosen and shaped by news staff into the stories we read and hear. Tracing news stories from start to finish, she shows how the actions of journalists and editors - and the limitations of news writing formulas - may distort…
Women's place at the Fourth Estate: Constraints on voice, text, and topic
Diversity awareness and the role of language in cultural representations in news stories
Towards a linguistics of news production
Revising The “Journalist’S Bible”. How News Practitioners Respond To Language And Social Change
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Media
Routledge Handbook of Language and Media
Framing obesity in public discourse: Representation through metaphor across text type
Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable
Swearwords influence social evaluation of a speaker in a variety of ways depending on social context (Jay & Janschewitz (2008), The pragmatics of swearing. Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture , 4(2), 267–288). Little attention has been paid to the role of linguistic variation in social perceptions of swearing, however. This paper presents two experiments that test the role of sociolinguistic variation in the social evalua…
Sociology (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)