Laura Paterson

Laura Paterson is a Lecturer in English Language and Applied Linguistics at The Open University. She is currently Module Team Chair of the first module on the Applied Linguistics pathway, EE817

Her research uses techniques from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to interrogate the representation and public understanding of UK poverty.

She is currently co-authoring the book Discourses of Poverty and Place: Geographical Text Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis with Ian Gregory and has also published work on discourses of marriage, the  Occupy movement, and gender neutral pronouns. 

Her first monograph, British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing, was published by Palgrave in 2014.

She is also editor of the Journal of Language and Discrimination. 

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