10 December 2011
Jill Vaughan and Lauren Gawne give a talk on LOLspeak at the 2011 Australian Linguistics Society annual conference.
The talk is a good example of how a silly and fun internet fad can demonstrate some rather sophisticated linguistics concepts and how ordinary people are very sophisticated in their use of language. But don’t expect lots of hilarious examples of LOLspeak. There are a few, but the talk is an academic discussion of a light-hearted phenomenon.
