Gretchen McCulloch

Gretchen McCulloch is a Canadian Internet linguist. On her blog and her podcast, "Lingthusiasm", she offers linguistic analysis of online communication such as internet memes, emoji and instant messaging. She writes regularly for Wired and previously did so for The Toast. In 2019, she published a book on internet linguistics, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language.

Gretchen McCulloch
NationalityCanadian
Academic background
Alma materMcGill University (MA)
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineInternet linguistics

Education

McCulloch obtained a master's degree in linguistics at McGill University.[1]

Work

McCulloch's writing online focuses on internet linguistics, a field first advocated by David Crystal. On her blog, she regularly discusses trends in use of English words, phrases and emoji in online communications as well as offering analysis of language form used in internet communications.[2] She was a resident writer on linguistics at feminist website The Toast, where in 2014 she wrote an article analyzing the grammar of the doge meme.[3] This article received coverage on BBC Radio 4, where McCulloch was interviewed on the subject by Evan Davis.[4]

In 2019, McCulloch's first book, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, was published by Riverhead Books. The book explores the history of online communication in English and the linguistic trends that have emerged within it over the years,[5] as well as the effect such communication might have on the English language as a whole.[6][7]

The book received critical acclaim from The New York Times and soon after publication appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.[8][9] It also received positive reviews on National Public Radio[10] and the Washington Post.[11]

gollark: You can get multiple prizes?
gollark: You can probably get a CB Gold and Silver, I think.
gollark: But you might want to tell them what you're doing so they don't cancel out of frustration.
gollark: Makes sense, then.
gollark: If you're paying for it with an egg, you'd have that slot taken anyway.

References
  1. McCulloch, Gretchen. "Biography". Gretchen McCulloch. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  2. McKelvey, Cynthia (2016). "How the Internet is changing the English language". Daily Dot. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  3. McCulloch, Gretchen. "A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Doge. Wow". The Toast. Archived from the original on 31 May 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  4. Williams, Rhiannon (2014). "Radio 4: stop trying to intellectualise Doge. Wow". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  5. Johnston, Kjerstin. "How the Internet Changed Language—for the Better". The Ringer. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  6. Yu, Mallory; Kopp, Emily. "NYT Bestseller List.<=Our Language Is Evolving, 'Because Internet'". NPR. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  7. Morton, Becky. "Is the full stop rude when used on WhatsApp?". BBC News. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  8. Szalai, Jennifer. "Why Has Language Changed So Much So Fast? 'Because Internet'". New York Times. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  9. Malcolm Fraser, Montreal Review of Books https://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/27920/
  10. Nunberg, Geoff. "Ironic, Informal And Expressive, 'New Rules Of Language' Evolve Online." Fresh Air. August 20, 2019. https://www.npr.org/2019/08/20/749946265/opinion-ironic-informal-and-expressive-new-rules-of-language-evolve-online
  11. Marz, Megan. “How the Internet has changed the way we write — and speak. It’s not all ALL bad.” Washington Post. September 12, 2019
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