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Episode 66 - Andreea Calude & the language of social media


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Here are the show notes for Episode 66, in which Raj and Dan talk to Dr Andreea Calude, author of The Linguistics of Social Media: an introduction (Routledge, 2024). Andreea is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Waikato, in New Zealand, Associate of the Human Lang Tech Research Centre in Romania, and Lennoy chair in multilingualism at VUB in Brussels. Our conversation includes discussion of 

  • How we use social media for different purposes and for different audiences

  • The affordances of different platforms

  • Constructing & performing identity online

  • Using ‘move analysis’ with social media texts

  • Media discourses about social media

  • The Linguistics of Social Media: An Introduction - 1st Edition 

    Dr. Andreea Calude 

    The Language Game 

    Dimensions of Register Variation  

    BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Social media language 

    Lexis is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social 

    Contributors

    Lisa Casey 

    blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

    Dan Clayton 

    blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

    Jacky Glancey 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

    Raj Rana

    Matthew Butler 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

    Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 


    Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys

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