Caroline Tagg
Biographic Data
| ID | 210401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Tagg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Tagg |
| SIGNATURE | TAGG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3660-1169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Introduction: Discourse at the intersection of digital design and user agency
Mobile events: Exploring mobile conversations in context as communicative events
Post-Digital Connectivities: Framing Offline Encounters in a Digital Prospection Space
This paper explores the use of mobile technologies in facilitating offline encounters, through a post-digital lens which posits the digital not as new or disruptive but as a ubiquitous and accepted part of everyday social connectivities. In the paper, we explore ways in which migrants draw on jointly assembled semiotic repertoires, affordances, and constraints of the digital space, as well as cultural knowledge and spatial relating, to establish …
Conversational rhythm as a disconnective practice among middle-aged adults in situated mobile-messaging interactions
Context design and critical language/media awareness: Implications for a social digital literacies education
Polymedia repertoires of networked individuals: A day-in-the-life approach
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 repertoire highlights how people move fluidly between media platforms, semiotic modes and linguistic resources in the course of their everyday interactions…
Discourse, context & media: Relevance in a changing world
Repertoires on the move: Exploiting technological affordances and contexts in mobile messaging interactions
This article advances thinking around the semiotic repertoire by exploring how resources are negotiated in the course of interactions mediated by mobile messaging apps, and how this process of co-constructing repertoires is shaped by the affordances and constraints of the virtual spaces in which these interactions take place. Drawing on micro-analysis of ethnographic data from a large funded project, we focus on the closed online networks of two …
Role of EFL teachers’ beliefs in speaking practice: The case of a Mexican university
Performing the self through social media
Caroline Tagg Punctum, 5(2): 208-212, 2019 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2019.0032 Mariza Georgalou 2017. Discourse and Identity on Facebook. London: Bloomsbury, 313 pp. $135 (HB), ISBN: HB: 978-1-4742-8912-2 Full Text: PDF
The discursive construction of mobile chronotopes in mobile-phone messaging
This article draws on data from an ethnographic project to explore the ways in which migrant micro-entrepreneurs exploit mobile messaging apps to co-construct mobile chronotopes: dynamic configurations of time and space negotiated by geographically separated participants, who draw on different contexts and frames of understanding. Analysis of mobile messages by two couples-Chinese butchers in Birmingham and Polish shop-owners in London-informed b…
Social media and the future of open debate: A user-oriented approach to Facebook’s filter bubble conundrum
Constructing Conviviality in Online Interaction
Social Media and Intradiverse Networks
Giving and Taking Offence: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches
Afterword: Beyond Facebook
The Impact of Intradiversity on Online Offence
Online Communication as Context Design
Creating Facebook: A Study of Online Conflict and Conviviality
The ethics of digital ethnography in a team project
This article draws on researcher vignettes to explore ethical decisions made in the process of collecting and analysing mobile messaging data as part of a team ethnographic project exploring multilingualism in superdiverse UK cities. The research involves observing key participants at work as well as recording them at home and collecting their digital interactions. The nature of ethnographic research raises ethical issues which highlight the impo…
The Ethics of Online Research Methods in Applied Linguistics: Challenges, opportunities, and directions in ethical decision-making
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Taking Offence on Social Media
Metonymy and Text Messaging: A Framework for Understanding Creative Uses of Metonymy
The significance of linguistic creativity in everyday situations is now widely recognized in applied linguistics. There has been substantial discussion of the role played by various tropes in the development of linguistic creativity. However, there is one trope which has been relatively underexplored in this literature. Metonymy—the use of one entity, process or event to refer to another related entity, process or event—is an important means of c…
Heteroglossia in text-messaging: Performing identity and negotiating relationships in a digital space
This article uses Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia to explore how linguistic repertoires are exploited in the performance of identity and management of relationships through text-messaging. The study focuses on text-messages sent and received by 'Laura', a middle-class woman who has returned from university to her family home in rural England. Qualitative analysis of Laura's texted exchanges, informed by quantitative corpus data and ethnographi…
The Language of Social Media
This timely book examines language on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. Studies from leading language researchers, and experts on social media, explore how social media is having an i
Language choice and addressivity strategies in Thai-English social network interactions
This article analyses the language choices used by a community of native Thai speakers in online communicative encounters. Using data drawn from exchanges from a social network site, the article examines the mixed linguistic repertoires evident in these interactions, along with the motivations (both situational and pragmatic) that influence choice of code, script and register, particularly as these are related to issues of addressivity. The data …
Taking Offence on Social Media
English on the internet and a 'post-varieties' approach to language
This paper examines the use of English in computer-mediated discourse, and considers the extent to which the traditional varieties-based approach to the study of global English can provide adequate analytic tools for describing the actuality of communicative encounters conducted on the Internet. Starting from the contention that languages as discrete entities are a problematic sociolinguistic category, the paper addresses the question of how the …
Heteroglossia in text-messaging: Performing identity and negotiating relationships in a digital space
This article uses Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia to explore how linguistic repertoires are exploited in the performance of identity and management of relationships through text-messaging. The study focuses on text-messages sent and received by 'Laura', a middle-class woman who has returned from university to her family home in rural England. Qualitative analysis of Laura's texted exchanges, informed by quantitative corpus data and ethnographi…
The discursive construction of mobile chronotopes in mobile-phone messaging
This article draws on data from an ethnographic project to explore the ways in which migrant micro-entrepreneurs exploit mobile messaging apps to co-construct mobile chronotopes: dynamic configurations of time and space negotiated by geographically separated participants, who draw on different contexts and frames of understanding. Analysis of mobile messages by two couples-Chinese butchers in Birmingham and Polish shop-owners in London-informed b…
Repertoires on the move: Exploiting technological affordances and contexts in mobile messaging interactions
This article advances thinking around the semiotic repertoire by exploring how resources are negotiated in the course of interactions mediated by mobile messaging apps, and how this process of co-constructing repertoires is shaped by the affordances and constraints of the virtual spaces in which these interactions take place. Drawing on micro-analysis of ethnographic data from a large funded project, we focus on the closed online networks of two …
Social media and the future of open debate: A user-oriented approach to Facebook’s filter bubble conundrum
Conversational rhythm as a disconnective practice among middle-aged adults in situated mobile-messaging interactions
Mobile events: Exploring mobile conversations in context as communicative events
English on the internet and a 'post-varieties' approach to language
This paper examines the use of English in computer-mediated discourse, and considers the extent to which the traditional varieties-based approach to the study of global English can provide adequate analytic tools for describing the actuality of communicative encounters conducted on the Internet. Starting from the contention that languages as discrete entities are a problematic sociolinguistic category, the paper addresses the question of how the …
Language choice and addressivity strategies in Thai-English social network interactions
This article analyses the language choices used by a community of native Thai speakers in online communicative encounters. Using data drawn from exchanges from a social network site, the article examines the mixed linguistic repertoires evident in these interactions, along with the motivations (both situational and pragmatic) that influence choice of code, script and register, particularly as these are related to issues of addressivity. The data …
Scraping the Barrel with a Shower of Social Misfits: Everyday Creativity in Text Messaging
Scholars generally accept that spelling variation in texting is a creative practice. This article shows that texters can also be creative in other ways. Examples of repetition, idiom manipulation, wordplay, and punning are drawn from a corpus of almost 11,000 text messages. These include: ‘They can try! They can get lost, in fact!’ and ‘see ya not on the dot’, as well as the mixed idioms cited in the title of the article. The article explores the…
The Language of Social Media
This timely book examines language on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. Studies from leading language researchers, and experts on social media, explore how social media is having an i
Metonymy and Text Messaging: A Framework for Understanding Creative Uses of Metonymy
The significance of linguistic creativity in everyday situations is now widely recognized in applied linguistics. There has been substantial discussion of the role played by various tropes in the development of linguistic creativity. However, there is one trope which has been relatively underexplored in this literature. Metonymy—the use of one entity, process or event to refer to another related entity, process or event—is an important means of c…
Heteroglossia in text-messaging: Performing identity and negotiating relationships in a digital space
This article uses Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia to explore how linguistic repertoires are exploited in the performance of identity and management of relationships through text-messaging. The study focuses on text-messages sent and received by 'Laura', a middle-class woman who has returned from university to her family home in rural England. Qualitative analysis of Laura's texted exchanges, informed by quantitative corpus data and ethnographi…
Constructing Conviviality in Online Interaction
Social Media and Intradiverse Networks
Giving and Taking Offence: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches
Afterword: Beyond Facebook
The Impact of Intradiversity on Online Offence
Online Communication as Context Design
Creating Facebook: A Study of Online Conflict and Conviviality
The ethics of digital ethnography in a team project
This article draws on researcher vignettes to explore ethical decisions made in the process of collecting and analysing mobile messaging data as part of a team ethnographic project exploring multilingualism in superdiverse UK cities. The research involves observing key participants at work as well as recording them at home and collecting their digital interactions. The nature of ethnographic research raises ethical issues which highlight the impo…
The Ethics of Online Research Methods in Applied Linguistics: Challenges, opportunities, and directions in ethical decision-making
d e ci sio nm a ki n g.Ap plie d Lin g ui s ti c s R evi e w 8 (2-3) , p p . 1 6 3-1 6 8. 1 0
Taking Offence on Social Media
Social media and the future of open debate: A user-oriented approach to Facebook’s filter bubble conundrum
Performing the self through social media
Caroline Tagg Punctum, 5(2): 208-212, 2019 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2019.0032 Mariza Georgalou 2017. Discourse and Identity on Facebook. London: Bloomsbury, 313 pp. $135 (HB), ISBN: HB: 978-1-4742-8912-2 Full Text: PDF
The discursive construction of mobile chronotopes in mobile-phone messaging
This article draws on data from an ethnographic project to explore the ways in which migrant micro-entrepreneurs exploit mobile messaging apps to co-construct mobile chronotopes: dynamic configurations of time and space negotiated by geographically separated participants, who draw on different contexts and frames of understanding. Analysis of mobile messages by two couples-Chinese butchers in Birmingham and Polish shop-owners in London-informed b…
Role of EFL teachers’ beliefs in speaking practice: The case of a Mexican university
Context design and critical language/media awareness: Implications for a social digital literacies education
Polymedia repertoires of networked individuals: A day-in-the-life approach
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 repertoire highlights how people move fluidly between media platforms, semiotic modes and linguistic resources in the course of their everyday interactions…
Discourse, context & media: Relevance in a changing world
Repertoires on the move: Exploiting technological affordances and contexts in mobile messaging interactions
This article advances thinking around the semiotic repertoire by exploring how resources are negotiated in the course of interactions mediated by mobile messaging apps, and how this process of co-constructing repertoires is shaped by the affordances and constraints of the virtual spaces in which these interactions take place. Drawing on micro-analysis of ethnographic data from a large funded project, we focus on the closed online networks of two …
Post-Digital Connectivities: Framing Offline Encounters in a Digital Prospection Space
This paper explores the use of mobile technologies in facilitating offline encounters, through a post-digital lens which posits the digital not as new or disruptive but as a ubiquitous and accepted part of everyday social connectivities. In the paper, we explore ways in which migrants draw on jointly assembled semiotic repertoires, affordances, and constraints of the digital space, as well as cultural knowledge and spatial relating, to establish …
Computer Science (22 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Digital Communication and Language (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · World Wide Web (13 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Social Media and Politics (11 works) · Social media (9 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works)