Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Profile

My research interests lie in data-driven approaches in the areas of pragmatics and sociolinguistics. Current research projects include a corpus-assisted description of mock politeness (my PhD topic), and the investigation of how migrants are represented in the media across different cultures. My teaching profile can be viewed here.  

Qualifications 

• BA Hons (English and Italian Literature, University of Warwick)
• MA TESOL (Sheffield Hallam University)

Research Groups 

• Language Across Borders

Discipline Areas

• Language and Linguistics
• Media Studies

Research CV

Journal Articles  

• Taylor, C. Forthcoming, 2013. Searching for similarity using corpus-assisted discourse studies. Corpora 8(2).
• Taylor, C. 2010. Science in the news: A diachronic perspective. In Corpora 5(2): 221-250.
• Marchi, A. & C. Taylor. 2009. If on a winter’s night two researchers…  A challenge to assumptions of soundness of interpretation. CADAAD Journal 3(1): 1-20.
• Taylor, C. 2008. What is corpus linguistics? What the data says. ICAME Journal, 32: 143-164.
• Taylor, C. 2008. Metaphors of anti-Americanism in a corpus of UK, US and Italian newspapers. ESP Across Cultures, 5: 137-152.

Book Chapters 

• Morley, J., & C. Taylor. 2012. ‘Us’ and ‘them’. How immigrants are constructed in the British and Italian press. In Bayley, P. and G.Williams (eds.), European Identity: What the Media Say. Oxford University Press.
• Taylor, C. 2011. Negative politeness features and impoliteness: A corpus-assisted approach. Davies, B., A. Merrison and M. Haugh (eds.). Situated Politeness. Continuum.
• Taylor, C. 2009. Interacting with conflicting goals: Impoliteness in hostile cross-examination. In J. Morley & P. Bayley (eds.). Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq War. London: Routledge. 208-233.
• Marchi, A. & C. Taylor. 2009. Who was fighting and who/what was being fought? Press reporting of the conflict in Iraq in 2003. In Garzone, G. & P. Catenaccio (eds.) Identities across Media and modes: Discursive Prospectives. Peter Lang.
• Marchi, A. & C. Taylor. 2009. Establishing the EU: The representation of Europe in the press in 1993 and 2005. In A.H. Jucker, M. Hundt & D. Schreier (eds.). Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 201-224.
• Taylor, C. 2009. ‘Laughter’ in L2 computer-mediated discourse. In Dynel, M. (ed.), Advances in Discourse Analysis. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Taylor, C. 2006. Powerless Language? Witness strategies in the Hutton Inquiry. In Gotti, M. & Flowerdew, J. (eds.), Studies in Specialized Discourse. Peter Lang.

Co-authored Books

• Partington, A. & C. Taylor. 2010. Persuasion in Politics: A Coursebook. (Second edition). LED.

Published Conference Papers

• Camarra, M., L. Mesh, A. Rocchiccioli & C. Taylor. 2008. WebLingu@ - building and sustaining a learning community in asynchronous discussion forums. In Di Martino, G., Gotti, M. & V. Polese, (eds.),  Atti del IV Convegno AICLU: Sperimentazione, Ricerca e Didattica nei Centri Linguistici Universitari Italiani, Naples: Arte Tipografica.
• Taylor, C. 2008. Face and politeness in L2 computer-mediated discourse: A case-study of the weblingu@ forums. In L. Mesh (ed.). Atti del II Seminario Interno del Centro Linguistico dell'Università di Siena.
• Taylor, C. & Rui, S. 2008. Moodle-assisted teacher training: A case study of SSIS. In L. Mesh (ed.). Atti del I Seminario Interno del Centro Linguistico dell'Università di Siena.

Participation in Research Projects

• Integrated and united? A quest for citizenship in an 'Ever Closer Europe', an interdisciplinary project involving 29 universities, financed by the European Union within the scope of the 6th Framework Programme, 2005-2009.
• Corpora and discourse: A quantitative and qualitative linguistic analysis of political and media discourse on the conflict in Iraq in 2003, a national research project financed by the Italian Ministry for Education, 2004-2006.
• The AICLU project for Linguistic Competence Certification in Italian Universities, a national research project involving nine Italian universities, financed by the Italian Ministry for Education.
• In the eyes of the beholder: Anti-Americanism in Western Europe and the United States during the recent Iraq crisis, an interdisciplinary project financed by Siena University, 2005-2007.

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