proftaylor.bsky.social
Professor of Discourse & Persuasion
Rhetorics of nostalgia | migration discourses & memory | metaphor | WATER metaphors | mythopoesis | corpus linguistics | (critical) discourse analysis
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Proposals for research papers may cover, but are not restricted to, the following:
- Language, migration and technology
- Lifestyle migration, language and identity
- Language, transnationalism and identity
- Migration, language and intersectionality
- Historical cases of language and migration
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Huge thanks series editor @discodiscourse.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and all the brilliant contributors including @perez-paredes.bsky.social @elenainlimbo.bsky.social @fabrichunter.bsky.social @samtbennett.bsky.social
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The case-studies cut across perspectives, countries, languages and time to show patterns of representation. The use of metaphor and binary categorisation recur as do tropes of threat, illegality and delegitimation with reference to religious identity 3/4
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We have chapters investigating discursive framings by those identifying as migrants & those who see themselves as part of a host population.
As we show in the introduction, the first-person experience is rarely addressed which risks normalising an assumption that only IMmigration matters
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Immigrants, undocumented: criminalization
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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I'm not involved in the organisation but it could be worth contacting them to see what flexibility they have
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If you want more Times data, the strongest collocates of 'immigrants' continue:
1900: alien
1890s: alien
1880s: number
1870s: Chinese
1860s: arrived
1850s: introduction
1840s: number
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If you are interested in the language used in our parliaments, there are two fantastic free resources you can use to search for patterns
1. Hansard (1800-2005)
www.english-corpora.org/hansard/
2. Parlamint (2015-2022 for many European countries inc. UK)
www.clarin.si/ske/#open
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In UK parliamentary data, the pattern was similar. 'illegal' is the word most strongly associated with 'immigrants' from 1980s onwards.
Before that:
1960s & 1970s: Commonwealth
1950s: country
1940s: illegal
1930s & 1920s: into
1910s: number
1900: alien
1890s: number
1880s: Chinese