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Gretchen McCulloch | |
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 Gretchen McCulloch photographed at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. | |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | McGill University (MA) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | Internet linguistics |
| Website | gretchenmcculloch |
Gretchen McCulloch (/məˈkʌlək/)[1] is a Canadian linguist. On her blog, as well as her podcast Lingthusiasm (which she cohosts with Lauren Gawne) 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.