Charlotte Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3588712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2152-9782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Abandoned
Homelessness is increasing globally. “Hidden homelessness,” a term used to define homelessness in geographically remote areas, is also increasing, but existing research lacks the perceptions and existential insight of homelessness in rural communities. This study aims to highlight the lived experiences of homelessness in Perth & Kinross, a unique Scottish local authority split almost equally into rural and urban areas. Twenty-two people experienc…
‘Art as social practice
The present collection of articles draws on the anthropological concept of art of the ordinary from Raymond Williams' book Culture is Ordinary (1989).In this sense, art is like culture, both in terms of the meanings shared by society and in terms of those new ones that are created and tested.Therefore, art is integral to 'the process of discovery and creative effort' (1989: 93) of a culture.The notion of ordinary art is combined with that of a so…
The affordances of metaphor for diachronic corpora & discourse analysis
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, enabling comparison across contexts where the same concept could be lexicalised differently. The case-study is concerned with the oft-discussed metaphor of mig…
Challenges and innovations in the economic evaluation of the risks of climate change
A large discrepancy exists between the dire impacts that most natural scientists project we could face from climate change and the modest estimates of damages calculated by mainstream economists. Economic assessments of climate change risks are intended to be comprehensive, covering the full range of physical impacts and their associated market and non-market costs, considering the greater vulnerability of poor people and the challenges of adapta…
Flu-like pandemics and metaphor pre-covid
Metaphors of migration over time
This paper aims to cast light on contemporary migration rhetoric by integrating historical discourse analysis. I focus on continuity and change in conventionalised metaphorical framings of emigration and immigration in the UK-based Times newspaper from 1800 to 2018. The findings show that some metaphors persist throughout the 200-year time period ( liquid , object ), some are more recent in conventionalised form ( animals , invader , weight ) whi…
Comparing across languages in corpus and discourse analysis
Corpus-assisted discourse studies is, by its nature, interdisciplinary. However, this need to reach across borders becomes even more salient when we study discourses across languages, and this represents a natural intersection with translation studies. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the issue of comparison in cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse studies, positing a series of key questions including: How do we compare across or withi…
Are pro-ecological values enough? Determining the drivers and extent of participation in citizen science programs
Citizen science programs provide an opportunity for the public to reconnect with nature; however, pro-environmental values may not necessarily result in a high level of participation. This study assessed the values and attitudes toward ecology and conservation of 482 people, including 231 citizen scientists participating in two programs requiring either a ‘complex’ or ‘simple’ level of participation. Positive attitudes toward urban wildlife were …
The conventionalisation of mock politeness in Chinese and British online forums
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link
Corpus Approaches to Discourse
Representing the Windrush generation
This paper examines the ways in which the group of people now known as the Windrush generation, who moved to the UK in the period 1948–1971, have been represented in public discourse. This group has been adversely affected by the current ‘hostile environment’ policy in the UK regarding immigration. As I show, in the ensuing and highly critical debate, the government repeatedly positioned them as ‘good’ migrants and placed them in a binary opposit…
Because it kind of falls in between, doesn't it? Like an acute thing and a chronic
Anaphylaxis is a serious, rare condition increasing in prevalence. This study explored the psychological experience of adult-onset anaphylaxis from patient, family and staff perspectives. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 participants. Two global themes emerged from thematic analysis: 'controllability' ('an unknown and distressing experience', 'the importance of control over triggers' and 'responsibility but no control: the impact…
Women are bitchy but men are sarcastic
In this paper I investigate one aspect of the relationship between gender and mock politeness, focussing in particular on sarcastic behaviours. Previous research into sarcasm as an academic concept has suggested that it is more likely to be performed by males. In the data analysed here, there was no correlation between mock politeness and gender. However, there was a preference for labelling male mock polite behaviour as sarcastic, suggesting tha…
The relationship between irony and sarcasm
The relationship between irony and sarcasm has been much discussed and yet there is still little agreement on how the two relate at a theoretical level, as Attardo (2000: 795) notes “there is no consensus on whether irony and sarcasm are essentially the same thing [...] or if they differ significantly”. The aim of this paper is to take a user-perspective and report on how participants in everyday conversations in the UK and Italy talk about irony…
Mock politeness and culture
This paper investigates the extent to which perceptions of cultural variation correspond to actual practice with reference to (national) cultures in Britain and Italy. More specifically, the aspect of im/politeness that is addressed is mock politeness, a subset of implicational impoliteness that is triggered by an im/politeness mismatch. In the first phase of the study, two sets of comparable corpora are employed to investigate perceptions of moc…
Beyond sarcasm
Investigating the representation of migrants in the UK and Italian press
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 , migrants (and Italian equivalents) are calculated and this information is subsequently used to identify any 'mismatch' between the amount of attenti…
Patterns and Meanings in Discourse
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 wide variety of language topics and areas including metaphor, irony, evaluation, (im)politeness, stylistics, language change and sociopolitical issues. Ea…
Reply to ‘Evaluation of the Food Dudes programme by Upton et al .’
Increasing children's lunchtime consumption of fruit and vegetables
Objectives Although previous research has shown that the Food Dudes programme increases children's fruit and vegetable consumption at school, there has been limited evaluation of the extent to which changes are maintained in the long term. Furthermore, despite knowledge that the nutritional content of home-supplied meals is lower than that of school-supplied meals, little consideration has been given to the programme's impact on meals provided fr…
Aces Business
Beyond sarcasm
Investigating the representation of migrants in the UK and Italian press
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 , migrants (and Italian equivalents) are calculated and this information is subsequently used to identify any 'mismatch' between the amount of attenti…
Metaphors of migration over time
This paper aims to cast light on contemporary migration rhetoric by integrating historical discourse analysis. I focus on continuity and change in conventionalised metaphorical framings of emigration and immigration in the UK-based Times newspaper from 1800 to 2018. The findings show that some metaphors persist throughout the 200-year time period ( liquid , object ), some are more recent in conventionalised form ( animals , invader , weight ) whi…
Representing the Windrush generation
This paper examines the ways in which the group of people now known as the Windrush generation, who moved to the UK in the period 1948–1971, have been represented in public discourse. This group has been adversely affected by the current ‘hostile environment’ policy in the UK regarding immigration. As I show, in the ensuing and highly critical debate, the government repeatedly positioned them as ‘good’ migrants and placed them in a binary opposit…
The relationship between irony and sarcasm
The relationship between irony and sarcasm has been much discussed and yet there is still little agreement on how the two relate at a theoretical level, as Attardo (2000: 795) notes “there is no consensus on whether irony and sarcasm are essentially the same thing [...] or if they differ significantly”. The aim of this paper is to take a user-perspective and report on how participants in everyday conversations in the UK and Italy talk about irony…
Flu-like pandemics and metaphor pre-covid
The conventionalisation of mock politeness in Chinese and British online forums
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link
Challenges and innovations in the economic evaluation of the risks of climate change
A large discrepancy exists between the dire impacts that most natural scientists project we could face from climate change and the modest estimates of damages calculated by mainstream economists. Economic assessments of climate change risks are intended to be comprehensive, covering the full range of physical impacts and their associated market and non-market costs, considering the greater vulnerability of poor people and the challenges of adapta…
Because it kind of falls in between, doesn't it? Like an acute thing and a chronic
Anaphylaxis is a serious, rare condition increasing in prevalence. This study explored the psychological experience of adult-onset anaphylaxis from patient, family and staff perspectives. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 participants. Two global themes emerged from thematic analysis: 'controllability' ('an unknown and distressing experience', 'the importance of control over triggers' and 'responsibility but no control: the impact…
Mock politeness and culture
This paper investigates the extent to which perceptions of cultural variation correspond to actual practice with reference to (national) cultures in Britain and Italy. More specifically, the aspect of im/politeness that is addressed is mock politeness, a subset of implicational impoliteness that is triggered by an im/politeness mismatch. In the first phase of the study, two sets of comparable corpora are employed to investigate perceptions of moc…
The affordances of metaphor for diachronic corpora & discourse analysis
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, enabling comparison across contexts where the same concept could be lexicalised differently. The case-study is concerned with the oft-discussed metaphor of mig…
Women are bitchy but men are sarcastic
In this paper I investigate one aspect of the relationship between gender and mock politeness, focussing in particular on sarcastic behaviours. Previous research into sarcasm as an academic concept has suggested that it is more likely to be performed by males. In the data analysed here, there was no correlation between mock politeness and gender. However, there was a preference for labelling male mock polite behaviour as sarcastic, suggesting tha…
Aces Business
Patterns and Meanings in Discourse
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 wide variety of language topics and areas including metaphor, irony, evaluation, (im)politeness, stylistics, language change and sociopolitical issues. Ea…
Reply to ‘Evaluation of the Food Dudes programme by Upton et al .’
Increasing children's lunchtime consumption of fruit and vegetables
Objectives Although previous research has shown that the Food Dudes programme increases children's fruit and vegetable consumption at school, there has been limited evaluation of the extent to which changes are maintained in the long term. Furthermore, despite knowledge that the nutritional content of home-supplied meals is lower than that of school-supplied meals, little consideration has been given to the programme's impact on meals provided fr…
Investigating the representation of migrants in the UK and Italian press
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 , migrants (and Italian equivalents) are calculated and this information is subsequently used to identify any 'mismatch' between the amount of attenti…
Beyond sarcasm
Mock politeness and culture
This paper investigates the extent to which perceptions of cultural variation correspond to actual practice with reference to (national) cultures in Britain and Italy. More specifically, the aspect of im/politeness that is addressed is mock politeness, a subset of implicational impoliteness that is triggered by an im/politeness mismatch. In the first phase of the study, two sets of comparable corpora are employed to investigate perceptions of moc…
Women are bitchy but men are sarcastic
In this paper I investigate one aspect of the relationship between gender and mock politeness, focussing in particular on sarcastic behaviours. Previous research into sarcasm as an academic concept has suggested that it is more likely to be performed by males. In the data analysed here, there was no correlation between mock politeness and gender. However, there was a preference for labelling male mock polite behaviour as sarcastic, suggesting tha…
The relationship between irony and sarcasm
The relationship between irony and sarcasm has been much discussed and yet there is still little agreement on how the two relate at a theoretical level, as Attardo (2000: 795) notes “there is no consensus on whether irony and sarcasm are essentially the same thing [...] or if they differ significantly”. The aim of this paper is to take a user-perspective and report on how participants in everyday conversations in the UK and Italy talk about irony…
Corpus Approaches to Discourse
Representing the Windrush generation
This paper examines the ways in which the group of people now known as the Windrush generation, who moved to the UK in the period 1948–1971, have been represented in public discourse. This group has been adversely affected by the current ‘hostile environment’ policy in the UK regarding immigration. As I show, in the ensuing and highly critical debate, the government repeatedly positioned them as ‘good’ migrants and placed them in a binary opposit…
Because it kind of falls in between, doesn't it? Like an acute thing and a chronic
Anaphylaxis is a serious, rare condition increasing in prevalence. This study explored the psychological experience of adult-onset anaphylaxis from patient, family and staff perspectives. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 participants. Two global themes emerged from thematic analysis: 'controllability' ('an unknown and distressing experience', 'the importance of control over triggers' and 'responsibility but no control: the impact…
Are pro-ecological values enough? Determining the drivers and extent of participation in citizen science programs
Citizen science programs provide an opportunity for the public to reconnect with nature; however, pro-environmental values may not necessarily result in a high level of participation. This study assessed the values and attitudes toward ecology and conservation of 482 people, including 231 citizen scientists participating in two programs requiring either a ‘complex’ or ‘simple’ level of participation. Positive attitudes toward urban wildlife were …
The conventionalisation of mock politeness in Chinese and British online forums
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link
Comparing across languages in corpus and discourse analysis
Corpus-assisted discourse studies is, by its nature, interdisciplinary. However, this need to reach across borders becomes even more salient when we study discourses across languages, and this represents a natural intersection with translation studies. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the issue of comparison in cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse studies, positing a series of key questions including: How do we compare across or withi…
Flu-like pandemics and metaphor pre-covid
Metaphors of migration over time
This paper aims to cast light on contemporary migration rhetoric by integrating historical discourse analysis. I focus on continuity and change in conventionalised metaphorical framings of emigration and immigration in the UK-based Times newspaper from 1800 to 2018. The findings show that some metaphors persist throughout the 200-year time period ( liquid , object ), some are more recent in conventionalised form ( animals , invader , weight ) whi…
The affordances of metaphor for diachronic corpora & discourse analysis
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, enabling comparison across contexts where the same concept could be lexicalised differently. The case-study is concerned with the oft-discussed metaphor of mig…
Challenges and innovations in the economic evaluation of the risks of climate change
A large discrepancy exists between the dire impacts that most natural scientists project we could face from climate change and the modest estimates of damages calculated by mainstream economists. Economic assessments of climate change risks are intended to be comprehensive, covering the full range of physical impacts and their associated market and non-market costs, considering the greater vulnerability of poor people and the challenges of adapta…
‘Art as social practice
The present collection of articles draws on the anthropological concept of art of the ordinary from Raymond Williams' book Culture is Ordinary (1989).In this sense, art is like culture, both in terms of the meanings shared by society and in terms of those new ones that are created and tested.Therefore, art is integral to 'the process of discovery and creative effort' (1989: 93) of a culture.The notion of ordinary art is combined with that of a so…
Abandoned
Homelessness is increasing globally. “Hidden homelessness,” a term used to define homelessness in geographically remote areas, is also increasing, but existing research lacks the perceptions and existential insight of homelessness in rural communities. This study aims to highlight the lived experiences of homelessness in Perth & Kinross, a unique Scottish local authority split almost equally into rural and urban areas. Twenty-two people experienc…
Linguistics (13 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (11 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Media studies (5 works)