Caroline Tagg

Lyons, Agnieszka, Caroline Tagg and Rachel Hu 2021 Chronotopic (non)modernity in translocal mobile messaging among Chinese migrants in the UK Understanding Chinese Social Media, Zhao, Sumin and Chaoqun Xie (eds.), pp. 190–218 | Article

Migration is often seen as crossing both space and time, from the traditional past to the modern present, while leading to perceived changes in migrants themselves. This article draws on data from a large ethnographic project to explore the ways in which Chinese translocal families dispersed… read more

Tagg, Caroline and Agnieszka Lyons 2021 Polymedia repertoires of networked individuals: A day-in-the-life approach Polymedia in Interaction, Androutsopoulos, Jannis (ed.), pp. 725–755 | Article

This article introduces the concept of the polymedia repertoire to explore how social meaning is indexed through the interplay of communicative resources at different levels of expression (from choice of media to individual signs) in digitally mediated interactions. The multi-layered polymedia… read more

Asprey, Esther and Caroline Tagg 2019 The pragmatic use of vocatives in private one-to-one digital communication Internet Pragmatics 2:1, pp. 83–111 | Article

This article examines a corpus of private text messages collected in Birmingham and surrounding towns in 2015. We look specifically at pragmatic roles played by the vocatives we find in the corpus. Since text messages are sent to targeted recipients, vocatives are structurally redundant, and we… read more

Tagg, Caroline, Alistair Baron and Paul Rayson 2014 “i didn’t spel that wrong did i. Oops”: Analysis and normalisation of SMS spelling variation SMS Communication: A linguistic approach, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie and Cédrick Fairon (eds.), pp. 217–237 | Article

Spelling variation, although present in all varieties of English, is particularly prevalent in SMS text messaging. Researchers argue that spelling variants in SMSes are principled and meaningful, reflecting patterns of variation across historical and contemporary texts, and contributing to the… read more

Tagg, Caroline, Alistair Baron and Paul Rayson 2012 “i didn’t spel that wrong did i. Oops”: Analysis and normalisation of SMS spelling variation SMS Communication: A linguistic approach, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie and Cédrick Fairon (eds.), pp. 367–388 | Article

Spelling variation, although present in all varieties of English, is particularly prevalent in SMS text messaging. Researchers argue that spelling variants in SMSes are principled and meaningful, reflecting patterns of variation across historical and contemporary texts, and contributing to the… read more

Journal

Internet Pragmatics (IP)

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