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Social media language

Update: 2024-10-03
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Michael talks to linguist Dr Andreea Calude about her research into how language is used on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter/X. And he asks if we're witnessing the death of email.

Dr Andreea Calude is the author of The Linguistics of Social Media: An Introduction.

Produced for BBC Audio Bristol by Beth O'Dea.
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