Charlotte Taylor

@proftaylor.bsky.social

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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

Google ngrams for the phrase simpler times. Shows this occurs from early 1800s onwards but peaks in present period

Graph showing frequency of mentions of newspapers in UK parliament. The Times is the most frequently mentioned overall. The Daily Mail shows a dip in mentions.

examples of water metaphors such as surge in illegal migration

Chart showing frequency of polarization by year. Highest peak is 2021.

Screenshot of title slide from presentation. Title was Emotion-talk in parliamentary debates on migration: Work in progress