Language change in online trans communities

In my research on the creation and upholding of language norms in an early online transmasc community, I use a mixed-methods approach to explore patterns of language change, showing the large influence of linguistic, interactional, and identity norms that are negotiated and enforced by highly active users, who drive language change by providing a model to which users are expected to comply. 

Manuscripts

2022             Brown, C. (2022). The politics of community language change: A computational analysis of language norms in an online trans community [UC Santa Barbara]. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45d035nh

Under review   Cedar Brown, Lal Zimman and Simon Todd. Dynamics of Language Change: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Language in an Online Transgender Community. Submitted to Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 

Presentations

2022 “Critics,” “boosters” and the politics of linguistic change: A computational analysis of the lexicon in an online trans community. Co-presenting with Lal Zimman. Linguistic Society of America Conference, D.C., USA. Jan 2022.