Jenny Lederer is a Professor of Linguistics at San Francisco State University, specializing in cognitive linguistics. Her research, which draws on theories within conceptual metaphor, conceptual integration, gesture studies, corpus linguistics, and semantics, is featured in journals including Cognitive Linguistics, Metaphor and Symbol, the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, and the Journal of Pragmatics.

• 1. The medium shapes the message; 2. Creative spelling practices: hidden grammatical knowledge revealed; 3. New symbols at our fingertips: the functional characteristics of emojis; 4. Gossip through the screen: conversational structure in new media; 5. Online romance: the language of nerves, flirtation, and self-presentation; 6. Video sharing: the collective structure of online discourse; 7. Social gaming: how group identity informs language practice; 8. Rapidly changing media: the research possibilities are endless.

Jenny Lederer is a Professor of Linguistics at San Francisco State University, specializing in cognitive linguistics. Her research, which draws on theories within conceptual metaphor, conceptual integration, gesture studies, corpus linguistics, and semantics, is featured in journals including Cognitive Linguistics, Metaphor and Symbol, the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, and the Journal of Pragmatics.

• 1. The medium shapes the message; 2. Creative spelling practices: hidden grammatical knowledge revealed; 3. New symbols at our fingertips: the functional characteristics of emojis; 4. Gossip through the screen: conversational structure in new media; 5. Online romance: the language of nerves, flirtation, and self-presentation; 6. Video sharing: the collective structure of online discourse; 7. Social gaming: how group identity informs language practice; 8. Rapidly changing media: the research possibilities are endless.

Jenny Lederer is a Professor of Linguistics at San Francisco State University, specializing in cognitive linguistics. Her research, which draws on theories within conceptual metaphor, conceptual integration, gesture studies, corpus linguistics, and semantics, is featured in journals including Cognitive Linguistics, Metaphor and Symbol, the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, and the Journal of Pragmatics.

• 1. The medium shapes the message; 2. Creative spelling practices: hidden grammatical knowledge revealed; 3. New symbols at our fingertips: the functional characteristics of emojis; 4. Gossip through the screen: conversational structure in new media; 5. Online romance: the language of nerves, flirtation, and self-presentation; 6. Video sharing: the collective structure of online discourse; 7. Social gaming: how group identity informs language practice; 8. Rapidly changing media: the research possibilities are endless.