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Paterson, Laura L. and Gregory, Ian N. (2018). Representations of Poverty and Place: Using Geographical Text Analysis to Understand Discourse. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Paterson, Laura L (2014). British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing: Linguistic and Social Influences Affecting 'They' and 'He'. Palgrave Macmillan.

Paterson, Laura L ed. (2024). The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns. Routledge.

Paterson, Laura L. (2024). The little words that mean a lot. In: Paterson, Laura L. ed. The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns. Routledge, pp. 1–4.

van der Bom, Isabelle and Paterson, Laura L. (2020). Revisiting the welfare state through the decades: Investigating the discursive construction of the welfare state in the Times from 1940-2009. In: Gomez-Jimenez, Eva M. and Toolan, Michael eds. The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality: CADS Approaches to the British Media. Bloomsbury, pp. 49–68.

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Gregory, Ian N. and Paterson, Laura L. (2020). English Language and History: Geographical Representations of Poverty in Historical Newspapers. In: Adolphs, Svenja and Knight, Dawn eds. The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities. London: Routledge, pp. 418–439.

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Paterson, Laura L. (2020). Mapping Austerity: Geographical Text Analysis of UK Place-Names in The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. In: Greibel, Tim; Evert, Stefan and Heinrich, Philipp eds. Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses Reconstructing the Age of Austerity in the United Kingdom. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 65–87.

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Paterson, Laura (2018). “You can just give those documents to myself’: Untriggered reflexive pronouns in 21st century spoken British English. In: Brezina, Vaclav; Love, Robbie and Aijmer, Karin eds. Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech. Sociolinguistic Studies of the Spoken (BNC2014). Abingdon: Routledge.

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Paterson, Laura L.; Peplow, David and Grainger, Karen (2017). Does Money Talk Equate to Class Talk? Audience Responses to Poverty Porn in Relation to Money and Debt. In: Mooney, Annabelle and Sifaki, Evi eds. The Language of Money and Debt: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Palgrave, pp. 205–231.

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Paterson, Laura L. and McGlashan, Mark (2024). Same-sex marriage, gay marriage, or equal marriage? Category construction in a corpus of 21st century newspaper texts. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 13(2) pp. 129–153.

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van der Bom, Isabelle and Paterson, Laura L. (2021). Postscript: Reflections on establishing the Journal of Language and Discrimination. Journal of Language and Discrimination, 5(1) pp. 78–86.

Paterson, Laura L (2021). [Book review] Dennis Baron, What's your pronoun? Beyond he & she. Language in Society, 50(2) pp. 314–317.

Paterson, Laura L. (2020). Non-sexist Language Policy and the Rise (and Fall?) of Combined Pronouns in British and American Written English. Journal of English Linguistics, 48(3) pp. 258–281.

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Paterson, Laura L. (2020). Electronic supplement analysis of multiple texts: Exploring discourses of UK poverty in Below the Line comments. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 25(1) pp. 62–88.

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Paterson, Laura L. and Turner, Georgina (2020). Approaches to discourses of marriage. Critical Discourse Studies, 17(2) pp. 133–137.

Paterson, Laura L (2019). [Book Review] Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University: Feminist Flights, Fights, and Failures edited by Yvette Taylor and Kinneret Lahad (2018) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 368pp. Gender and Language, 13(3) pp. 1–6.

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Paterson, Laura L. and Coffey-Glover, Laura (2018). Discourses of marriage in same-sex marriage debates in the UK press 2011-2014. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 7(2) pp. 175–204.

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van der Bom, Isabelle; Paterson, Laura L; Peplow, David and Grainger, Karen (2018). ‘It’s not the fact they claim benefits but their useless, lazy, drug taking lifestyles we despise’: Analysing audience responses to Benefits Street using live tweets. Discourse, Context & Media, 21 pp. 36–45.

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Turner, Georgina; Mills, Sara; van der Bom, Isabelle; Coffey-Glover, Laura; Paterson, Laura L and Jones, Lucy (2018). Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage. Discourse and Society, 29(2) pp. 180–197.

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Handforth, Rachel; Paterson, Laura L.; Coffey-Glover, Laura and Mills, Sara (2017). Reading between Blurred Lines: The complexity of interpretation. Discourse, Context & Media, 20 pp. 103–115.

Gregoriou, Christiana and Paterson, Laura L. (2017). “Reservoir of rage swamps Wall St” The linguistic construction and evaluation of Occupy in international print media. Journal of Language, Aggression and Conflict, 5(1) pp. 57–80.

Jones, Lucy; Mills, Sara; Paterson, Laura L.; Turner, Georgina and Coffey-Glover, Laura (2017). Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships. Gender and Language, 11(3) pp. 309–335.

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Paterson, Laura L.; Coffey-Glover, Laura and Peplow, David (2016). Negotiating stance within discourses of class: Reactions to Benefits Street. Discourse & Society, 27(2) pp. 195–214.

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van der Bom, Isabelle; Coffey-Glover, Laura; Jones, Lucy; Mills, Sara and Paterson, Laura L. (2015). Implicit homophobic argument structure: Equal-marriage discourse in The Moral Maze. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 4(1) pp. 102–137.

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