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Reddit calls itself 'the front page of the internet' and, as one of the most popular social media websites, represents a highly interesting research site for linguists as well as researchers in other disciplines. My focus is on the sociolinguistics of Reddit, in particular, I am interested in the sociolinguistic characteristics of subreddits as well as the representation of World Englishes on Reddit (both in terms of linguistic features and attitudes toward them).
In an in-progress study in cooperation with Claudia Lange, we investigate swearing on Indian subreddits.
Research output (selection):
2025: upcoming publication in Asian Englishes
2024: conference talk at ICAME45 in Vigo ("'Bad' Indian English: The lexicology of multilingual swearing") (with Claudia Lange)
2021: paper "Towards a digital sociolinguistics: Communities of practice on Reddit" (co-authored w/ Martin Leuckert), published as part of the edited collection Corpus Approaches to Social Media (eds. Daria Dayter and Sofia Rüdiger, https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.98.01leu)
2020: paper "Rethinking community in linguistics: Language and community in the Digital Age", published as part of the edited collection Rethinking Community through Transdisciplinary Research (ed. Bettina Jansen, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31073-8_7)
2019: invited guest lecture at TU Dortmund University ("'Reddit is a community and the power is in the people': Digital sociolinguistics and community formation on Reddit")
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