Dr Amanda Potts

2023

• Potts, A., Bednarek, M. and Watharow, A. 2023. Super, social, medical: Person-first and identity-first representations of disabled people in Australian newspapers, 2000–2019. Discourse and Society 34(4), pp. 405-428. (10.1177/09579265231156504)
• Potts, A. 2023. Interdisciplinary approaches to exploring identity construction using corpus-assisted discourse analysis. Presented at: MEDAL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics, Tartu, Estonia, 19-23 June 2023.
• Potts, A. 2023. Analysing identity using SketchEngine. Presented at: MEDAL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia, 19-23 June 2023.
• Abrams, J. R. and Potts, A. 2023. Mapping the shifts in abortion rhetoric from Roe to Casey to Dobbs. Presented at: The Annual Meeting on Law and Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1-4 June 2023.

2021

• Rayson, P. and Potts, A. 2021. Analyzing keyword lists. In: Paquot, M. and Gries, S. eds. A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Springer, pp. 119-139.
• Potts, A. and Formato, F. 2021. Women victims of men who murder: XML mark-up for nomination, collocation, and frequency analysis of language of the law. In: Angouri, J. and Baxter, J. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality. London: Routledge, pp. 602-619., (10.4324/9781315514857-48)

2020

• Abrams, J. R. and Potts, A. 2020. The language of harm: what the Nassar victim impact statements reveal about abuse and accountability. University of Pittsburgh Law Review 82(1), pp. 71-134. (10.5195/lawreview.2020.775)
• Abrams, J. and Potts, A. 2020. The language of harm: what the Nassar victim impact statements reveal about abuse and accountability. Presented at: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (LSA 2020), Virtual, 27-31 May 2020.

2019

• Potts, A. and Semino, E. 2019. Cancer as a metaphor. Metaphor and Symbol 34(2), pp. 81-95. (10.1080/10926488.2019.1611723)
• Potts, A. 2019. Comparing crimes:considering representativeness in corpora of sentencing remarks for women and men who kill. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics 2019, Cardiff, Wales, 22-26 July 2019.

2018

• Potts, A. and Ylanne, V. 2018. “Forget the stroppy, whingeing young who blame us wrinklies for Brexit!” A corpus-based discourse analysis of media representation of voter age and identity following the EU Referendum. Presented at: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, Aalborg, Denmark, 4-6 July 2018.
• Potts, A. 2018. Making a patchwork quilt or Frankenstein’s monster? Interdisiplinarity and collaboration in CADS. Presented at: 4th International Corpora and Discourse International Conference (CAD 2018), Lancaster University, UK, 22-24 June 2018.
• Potts, A. and Weare, S. 2018. Mother, Monster, Mrs, I: A critical evaluation of gendered naming strategies in English sentencing remarks of women who kill. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 31(1), pp. 21-52. (10.1007/s11196-017-9523-z)

2017

• Potts, A. 2017. Interdisciplinary approaches: Doing discourse analysis in a mixing pot or a whirlpool?. Presented at: Research on Languages & Linguistics (ROLLS), University of Sussex, UK, 2 December 2017.
• Potts, A. 2017. Corpus linguistics: One size fits all? Exploring (and exploiting) methods to analyse small and large corpora of public and professional discourse. Presented at: Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL) Meeting, KU Leuven, Belgium, 30 August 2017.
• Potts, A. 2017. Murderer, mother, slave, or skivvy: XML annotation to enable social actor analysis in a small corpus of English sentencing remarks for women who kill. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics 2017, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 24 - 28 July 2017.
• Potts, A. and Semino, E. 2017. Healthcare professionals' online use of violence metaphors for care at the end of life in the US: a corpus-based comparison with the UK. Corpora 12(1), pp. 55-84. (10.3366/cor.2017.0109)

2016

• Potts, A. 2016. Women who kill: methods to explore the doubly deviant identity in English sentencing remarks. Presented at: Language and Identity in Law and Evidence (BAAL/Routledge Research Development Workshop 2016), Nottingham Trent University, 19 September 2016.
• Potts, A. and Kjær, A. L. 2016. Constructing achievement in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY): A corpus-based critical discourse analysis. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 29(3), pp. 525-555. (10.1007/s11196-015-9440-y)
• Potts, A. 2016. Semantic annotation. In: Baker, P. and Egbert, J. eds. Triangulating Methodological Approaches in Corpus Linguistic Research. Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics Vol. 17. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 57-72.
• Potts, A. and Weare, S. 2016. Corpus linguistics, law and women who kill: an intersection around homicide. Presented at: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-5 June 2016.
• Potts, A. and Weare, S. 2016. Women who kill: a legal-linguistic analysis of identity construction after homicide. Presented at: 9th International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) Conference, City University, Hong Kong, China, 19-21 May 2016.
• Weare, S. and Potts, A. 2016. Corpus linguistic approaches to women who kill: explorations of gendered identities and agency in sentencing remarks. Presented at: Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) 2016 Annual Conference, Lancaster University, UK, 5-7 April, 2016.

2015

• Potts, A. and Weare, S. 2015. Women who kill: exploring constructions of gender and agency in English sentencing remarks. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics in the South 10, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, 28 November 2015.
• Potts, A. 2015. Considering the role of professional YouTube content creators in producing pro-social commenting communities of practice. Presented at: 6th International Language in the Media Conference, University of Hamburg, Germany, 07. - 09. September 2015.
• Potts, A. 2015. Key semantic tagging for triangulating methodological approaches. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics 2015, Lancaster University, UK, 21-24 July 2015.
• Potts, A. 2015. A corpus-based discourse analytical approach to analysing frequency and impact of deviations from formulaic legal language by the ICTY. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics 2015, Lancaster University, UK, 21st to 24th July 2015.
• Potts, A. 2015. Considering YouTube fandoms as pro-social communities of practice. Presented at: Topics in Corpus Linguistics for Social Media Research, Lancaster University, UK, 20th July 2015.
• Learmonth, M., Potts, A. and Mautner, G. 2015. Making Administrative Science Quarterly a corpus: methods and emerging results. Presented at: Seminar on Contributions to Management and Organisation Studies of Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, Durham, UK, 16 April 2015.
• Potts, A., Bednarek, M. and Caple, H. 2015. How can computer-based methods help researchers to investigate news values in large datasets? A corpus linguistic study of the construction of newsworthiness in the reporting on Hurricane Katrina. Discourse & Communication 9(2), pp. 149-172. (10.1177/1750481314568548)
• Potts, A. and Kjaer, A. L. 2015. The discursive construction of law, fact, and legitimacy: A corpus-linguistic study of the discourse of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).. Presented at: 18th Annual Conference for Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA, 6-7 March 2015.
• Potts, A. 2015. Hosting the 2012 Paralympics as a way of expanding and improving British discourses on disability. Presented at: Quo vadis Olympism: A Multidisciplinary Exploration, University of Birmingham, UK.
• Potts, A. 2015. 'Love you guys (No Homo)': how gamers and fans play with sexuality, gender, and Minecraft on YouTube. Critical Discourse Studies 12(2), pp. 163-186. (10.1080/17405904.2014.974635)
• Potts, A. 2015. Filtering the flood: semantic tagging as a method of identifying salient discourse topics in a large corpus of Hurricane Katrina reportage. In: Baker, P. and McEnery, T. eds. Corpora and Discourse Studies: Integrating Discourse and Corpora. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 285-304.

2014

• Potts, A., Simm, W., Whittle, J. and Unger, J. W. 2014. Exploring 'success' in digitally augmented activism: A triangulated approach to analyzing UK activist Twitter use. Discourse, Context & Media 6, pp. 65-76. (10.1016/j.dcm.2014.08.008)
• Potts, A. 2014. How gamers and fans play with sexuality, gender and Minecraft on YouTube. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics in the South 8: Voices from Below - Corpus Linguistics and Social Media, University of Reading, UK.
• Potts, A. and Kjaer, A. L. 2014. Corpus-based critical discourse analysis as a method of exploring underlying ideologies and self-representation strategies in legal texts. Presented at: CADAAD 2014, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary.
• Potts, A. 2014. How can using corpus linguistics methods expose hidden meanings made in modern-day reporting on WWI and WWII?. Presented at: Historical Uncertainties & Linguistic Constructions, European Centre of Linguistics, Heidelberg University, Germany.
• Potts, A. 2014. "Marriage is a societal construct": stance and argumentation in online news article comments on the topic of same-sex marriage in the UK. Presented at: 7th Biennial IVACS Conference: Corpus Linguistics: the Future?, Newcastle University, UK, 19-21 June 2014.
• Potts, A. 2014. Key semantic domain analysis as a method of exploring underlying ideologies and self-representation strategies in legal texts. Presented at: Second Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 07. - 09. March 2014.
• Potts, A. 2014. Natural language corpora and how to access them: a demonstration. Presented at: Mapping the Cultural Authority of Science Summit, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

2013

• Potts, A. 2013. 'I think we’d rather be called survivors': a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of the semantic preferences of referential strategies in Hurricane Katrina news articles as indicators of ideology. Presented at: 5th International Language in the Media Conference, Queen Mary University, London, UK, 28. - 30. September 2013.
• Potts, A. 2013. Social interaction and (im)politeness in digital communication: Exploring the potential of corpus-related approaches. Presented at: Politeness and Impoliteness in Digital Communication, Lancaster University, 20 September 2013.
• Potts, A. 2013. The application of corpus linguistics in social science research: a case study from the annual reports from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Presented at: Law as Text in Context: International Case Law from a Discourse Perspective, iCourts, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 28. August 2013.
• Potts, A. 2013. Automated semantic categorisation of collocates to identify salient domains: a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of naming strategies for people with HIV/AIDS. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics 2013, Lancaster University, UK, 22nd to 26th July 2013.
• McEnery, T., Potts, A. and Xiao, R. 2013. Is there a reputational benefit to hosting the Olympics and Paralympics? A corpus-based investigation. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics 2013, Lancaster University, UK, 22nd to 26th July 2013.
• Mohamed, G., Potts, A. and Hardie, A. 2013. AraSAS: a semantic tagger for Arabic. Presented at: Second Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK, 22nd July 2013.
• Baker, P. and Potts, A. 2013. "Why do white people have thin lips"? Google and the perpetuation of stereotypes via auto-complete search forms. Critical Discourse Studies 10(2), pp. 187-204. (10.1080/17405904.2012.744320)
• McEnery, T., Potts, A. and Xiao, R. 2013. London 2012 Games Media Impact Study. Project Report. [Online]. Department for Culture Media and Sport. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/224179/FullLondon2012GamesMediaImpactStudy.pdf

2012

• Potts, A. 2012. The homeland refugee: metaphorical statelessness in American disaster reporting. Presented at: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, University of Braga, Portugal, 04. - 06. July 2012.
• Potts, A. and Baker, P. 2012. Does semantic tagging identify cultural change in British and American English?. International journal of corpus linguistics 17(3), pp. 295-324. (10.1075/ijcl.17.3.01pot)

2009

• Potts, A. 2009. Arm’s length: Hurricane Katrina and distancing. Presented at: Free Linguistics Conference 2009, University of Sydney, Australia.
• Snyder, B., Mahboob, A. and Potts, A. 2009. Is ELT good work? A NEST/NNEST perspective. Presented at: 43rd Annual International Conference of TESOL, Denver, CO, USA.