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Dr Amanda Potts
(she/her)
Reader (Associate Professor)
School of English, Communication and Philosophy
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am a Reader (Associate Professor) in Public and Professional Discourse. My specialism is in corpus-based critical discourse analysis of texts and topics in public and professional communication, most recently: media discourse, medical communication, and language of the law. In my work, I usually take a mixed methodological approach, exploring some combination of the topics below:
- semantics
- metaphor analysis
- analysis of culture
- sociolinguistics
- representations of identity
- gender/sexuality
- investigation of discriminatory discourses
- discourse communities in social media
As Principal Investigator, I have successfully obtained over £500,000 in funding from the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and the UK Government.
I am a fellow of the Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute and a member of the ESRC Peer Review College. I am also a member of the Centre for Language and Communication Research, the Cardiff Corpus Network, and CaLL: Cardiff Language and Law.
In 2017, I became a founding co-editor of the Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies, published by Cardiff University Press. JCaDS is a peer-reviewed, online, open-access journal publishing corpus-assisted research into discourse, defined as language in use as a vehicle of communication. JCaDS is pluridisciplinary: we welcome studies from all areas of the humanities and social sciences that incorporate corpus techniques in investigating how spoken and written language is used and how meanings are created and explored.
Publication
2024
- Abrams, J. and Potts, A. 2024. The rhetoric of abortion in amicus briefs. Missouri Law Review 89(2), pp. 399-476., article number: 5.
- Bennett, M. et al. 2024. Brief of a former federal judge, Fair and Just Prosecution, 17 law professors, and 4 domestic violence researchers and advocates as Amici Curiae in support of petitioner. Brenda Evers Andrew, Petitioner v. Tamika White, Warden.. Washington, DC: Supreme Court of the United States.
2023
- Sharp, S., Beety, V. and Potts, A. 2023. Brenda Evers Andrew v. Tamika White, Acting Warden, Mabel Bassett Correctional Centre. Brief of the Amici Curiae Professor Susan Sharp, Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Professor Valena Beety, and Dr. Amanda Potts in support of petition for rehearing en banc. The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
- 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. Analysing identity using SketchEngine. Presented at: MEDAL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia, 19-23 June 2023.
- 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.
- 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.
- Watharow, A., Bednarek, M. and Potts, A. 2023. Labelling people with disability in Australian newspapers. [Online]. Language on the Move. Available at: https://www.languageonthemove.com/labelling-people-with-disability-in-australian-newspapers/
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. 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.
- 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. Key semantic tagging for triangulating methodological approaches. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics 2015, Lancaster University, UK, 21-24 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. 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. '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. 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
- 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.
- Potts, A. 2009. Arm’s length: Hurricane Katrina and distancing. Presented at: Free Linguistics Conference 2009, University of Sydney, Australia.
Adrannau llyfrau
- 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)
- 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. 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.
Arall
- Bennett, M. et al. 2024. Brief of a former federal judge, Fair and Just Prosecution, 17 law professors, and 4 domestic violence researchers and advocates as Amici Curiae in support of petitioner. Brenda Evers Andrew, Petitioner v. Tamika White, Warden.. Washington, DC: Supreme Court of the United States.
- Sharp, S., Beety, V. and Potts, A. 2023. Brenda Evers Andrew v. Tamika White, Acting Warden, Mabel Bassett Correctional Centre. Brief of the Amici Curiae Professor Susan Sharp, Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Professor Valena Beety, and Dr. Amanda Potts in support of petition for rehearing en banc. The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Cynadleddau
- Potts, A. 2023. Analysing identity using SketchEngine. Presented at: MEDAL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia, 19-23 June 2023.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 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. 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 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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. Key semantic tagging for triangulating methodological approaches. Presented at: Corpus Linguistics 2015, Lancaster University, UK, 21-24 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. 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. 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.
- 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. '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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Potts, A. 2009. Arm’s length: Hurricane Katrina and distancing. Presented at: Free Linguistics Conference 2009, University of Sydney, Australia.
Erthyglau
- Abrams, J. and Potts, A. 2024. The rhetoric of abortion in amicus briefs. Missouri Law Review 89(2), pp. 399-476., article number: 5.
- 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)
- 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)
- 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. 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)
- 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)
- 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., 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. 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., 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)
- 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)
- 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)
Gwefannau
- Watharow, A., Bednarek, M. and Potts, A. 2023. Labelling people with disability in Australian newspapers. [Online]. Language on the Move. Available at: https://www.languageonthemove.com/labelling-people-with-disability-in-australian-newspapers/
Monograffau
- 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
Teaching
I currently teach on three undergraduate modules:
- Reading and Writing in the Digital Age (Year 1)
- Discourse (Year 2)
- Language and Popular Culture (Year 3)
And one postgraduate module:
- Corpus Linguistics (MA)
In previous years, I have taught Introduction to Media Communication, Media Discourse, Forensic Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics 2, Research Foundations, and Lifespan Communication at Cardiff University, in addition to various undergraduate modules (Corpus-based English Language Studies; Discourse Analysis; Introduction to English Language; Language and Style) and postgraduate modules (Research Methods; Corpus Linguistics) at Lancaster University.
Biography
Education and qualifications
- Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practices, Lancaster University, UK
- Ph.D. Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK
- Master of Applied Linguistics (with merit), Sydney University, Australia
- Bachelor of Arts: Humanistic Studies in Literature (summa cum laude), Adelphi University, USA
Professional memberships
- Member, ESRC Peer Review College
- Fellow, Higher Education Academy
- Member, British Association for Applied Linguistics
- Member, International Gender and Language Association
- Member, Law and Society Association
Committees and reviewing
Cardiff University committees
- Cardiff University Open Research Integrity and Ethics Committee
- School of English, Communication and Philosophy Education Committee
- School of English, Communication and Philosophy Research Committee
External committees
- Board of Studies (as external examiner): Nottingham Trent University
- Founding co-editor: Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies
Supervisions
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:
- Corpus-based (critical) discourse analysis
- (Social) media discourse
- Language of law
- Discourse and identity
- Language, gender, and sexuality
Please note that I am not supervising topics related to language acquisition or language learning and teaching.
Current supervision
Past projects
- I previously supervised Kate Barber's PhD, entitled "(Re)framing rape: A sociocognitive discourse analysis of sexual violence at the intersection of white and male supremacy", awarded in 2022.
- I was the supervisor for Katharine Kavanagh, whose PhD, entitled "What’s so special about (the) circus - and who says so? A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of value difference and mediation in promotional texts", was awarded in 2024.
Contact Details
PottsA@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29208 74912
John Percival Building, Room 3.60, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
+44 29208 74912
John Percival Building, Room 3.60, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Research themes
Specialisms
- Culture, representation and identity
- Law and society and socio-legal research
- Communication and media studies
- Corpus linguistics
- Gender studies
