If you’ve spent even a day casually browsing the Internet, you’re probably aware of the stereotypes of a 'typical white girl'. She...

It’s probably not something you even think about. Someone asks you to pass salt or pepper at dinner, they say “thanks!” Someone is raising...

Do conscientious people say  I mean and I know more often? When we think of language we often think of neatly constructed sentences...

Do you think you would be able to guess the gender of the author of an anonymous tweet? David Bamman , Jacob Eisenstein and Tyler Sc...

Everyday language is usually the most interesting to study.  A perfect example of this is how we excuse ourselves when we ...

A lot of sociolinguistic work has focussed on how males and females use linguistic features in spoken language.  This resear...