U-Lingua | Issue 8, Spring 2022 | The Digital Issue
Social media, memes, video games, podcasts: an issue themed around living in a digital age. Also found on Issuu at https://issuu.com/u-lingua/docs/issue_8_forweb
Contents:
Letters from the Editor-in-Chief and ULAB Chairs
Meet the 2021-22 Local Committee (Edinburgh)
From Mums to Incels: Gender and Internet Identity Analysis through Corpus Linguistics – Eloise Parr
Sputnik, Mansplaining and Corpus Linguistics: How Social Media Sites Provide New Opportunities for Investigating Language Change – Lara Clarke
The ULAB Reading List: Book Recommendations from the ULAB Community – various contributors
A Wug-tonne of Advice: An Interview with Because Language – Kitty Liu & Romany Amber
Spreading the Word: An Interview with Gaston Dorren – James Morley
The New Meme Reality – Diana Lepka
such ✨language change✨: the growing nuances of the sparkle emoji – Beatrix Livesey-Stephens
Old Languages, New Approaches: An Interview with Marieke Meelen – Liam McKnight
The Path of Logic: Reviewing Pathologic 2 – Olivia Szczerbakiewicz
Language Documentation in Digital Times – Caitlin Wilson
Mathematical Parallels – T. R. Williamson
ULAB Essay Competition 2021 Winning Entry: Iconicity as an Explanation for Linguistic Universals – Andrew Tobin
