Indexicality

Influencer Speech and Indexicality

Communications, Sociolinguistics

Shogo Payne, Olivia Brown, Jade Reyes-Reid, Ricardo Muñoz, Priscella Yun Stereotypically, people consider TikTok influencers to be vapid and unimportant. However, through our research on the language of TikTok influencers, we have found that through particular lexical choices, influencers establish their niche within the beauty industry by appealing to the emotions of viewers, becoming vessels […]

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Driving from 101 to The 101: An Analysis of Determiner Usage in Californian Speech

Sociolinguistics

Pranav Singh, Melissa Yang, Yoosoo Jang, Ross Perry, and Nathan Midkiff Do you refer to Highway 101 as “101” or “the 101”? Perhaps many people have seen the case of putting ‘the’ in front of the highway. A determiner, like “the”, is an important element of grammar, and is usually used in front of a

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