LURA 2020

  • A meme of Obi-Wan Kenobi and General Grevious
    How to Do Things with Memes
    The memes shared by Star Wars prequel fans in a very nerdy corner of the internet may help us understand how memes create community. By: Carolyn Olmsted ​Course: Language and Digital Media (Ling 3800) Advisor: Prof Kira HallLURA 2020In 1962, J.
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  • Donald Trump with the text "What is plausible deniability and how is Trump using it today?"
    Trump’s Use of Conversational Implicature and Plausible Deniability
    How do today’s politicians skew the truth in political discourse? By: Abbey Ehrhard Course: Language & Politics (Ling 3800) Advisor: Prof. Adam HodgesLURA 2020[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0h_CZXlFcI] Truth in political
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  • A meme of Barack Obama with the text "Not bad" underneath
    Of Presidents and “Obama Face”: Politics and Meme-ers
     How do we participate in the evolving world of memes, especially when taking up a position as an elected official?By: Maya Stephens Course: Language and Digital Media (Ling 3800) Advisor: Prof. Kira HallLURA 2020With the internet being as vast
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  • A mosaic of images from famous Vines
    Vine Is Dead, But …
    Vine is dead, but... it lives on through digital users.By Paige Tapia Course: Language and Digital Media (Ling 3800) Advisor: Prof. Kira HallLURA 2020[video:https://vimeo.com/452038645] My junior year at the University of Colorado Boulder began
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  • A screenshot from the video
    Finding Communities with Emojis
    What happens when standard emojis no longer suffice?By: Gin Quesada Lara Course: Language and Digital Media (Ling 3800) Advisor: Prof. Kira HallLURA 2020[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYeJBTEgKjs&feature=youtu.be] This video essay,
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  • An image of colorful circles the largest of which says "Linguistic relativity refers to the way native languages of people affect their world view."
    “You Are What You Speak?”
    Learning a language is more than memorizing vocabulary and grammar. It can also change how you think.By: Sabrina Cohen Course: Language and Thought (Ling 7800) Advisor: Prof. Bhuvana NarasimhanLURA 2020When I was learning Spanish, the use of
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  • An image of two speech bubbles saying "What did you make today?" and "Mistakes."
    What the Duck??
    We’ve all been there, when autocorrect changes what we were trying to say entirely. But how do you fix it? By: Annabel Needham and Caitlin Schwarz Course: Language and Digital Media (Ling 3800) Advisor: Prof. Kira HallLURA 2020Our paper, which
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  • A meme from the show Phineas and Ferb
    Who, Meme?
    The success of an original meme depends on how it performs identity.By: Mae Cosgrove Course: Language and Digital Media (Ling 3800) Advisor: Prof. Kira HallLURA 2020Today, original memes are not only easy to create, but also shared among people
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  • Post-it notes with English pronouns written on them
    Who? They and Them
    The popularity of the singular usage of the pronouns “they/them” has become increasingly prevalent in today’s society, what does this mean?By: Evi Judge Course: Language in US Society (Ling 1000) Advisor: Prof. Chase Raymond TA: Olivia Hirschey
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  • A word cloud of sports related words
    The Game of Presidents: How We Understand Politics Through Sports Metaphors
    Sports metaphors help politicians appeal to everyday people.By: Hannah Hawkins & Taylor Salazar Course: Language & Politics (Ling 3800) Advisor: Prof. Adam HodgesLURA 2020  There are millions of people in the world that do not follow
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