research and writing: publications
books
Thurlow, C & Mroczek, K. (eds). (2011). Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media. New York & London: Oxford University Press.
Thurlow, C. & Jaworski, A. (2010). Tourism Discourse: Language and Global Mobility. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 2011 Distinguished Scholarship award, International & Intercultural Communication, National Communication Association
Jaworski, A. & Thurlow, C. (eds). (2010). Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space. London & New York: Continuum.
Williams, A. & Thurlow, C. (eds). (2005). Talking Adolescence: Perspectives on Communication in the Teenage Years. New York: Peter Lang.
Thurlow, C., Lengel, L. & Tomic, A. (2004). Computer Mediated Communication: Social Interaction and the Internet. London: Sage. Translated into Chinese (Weber, 2006) and Korean (Sungkyunkwan University Press, 2011).
special issues
Thurlow, C. (ed.). (2009). Young People, Mediated Discourse and Communication Technologies. Special issue of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 14(4).
journal articles *
Thurlow, C. & Jaworski, A. (2012, in press). Elite mobilities: The semiotic landscapes of luxury and privilege. Social Semiotics, 22(5).
Jaworski, A. & Thurlow, C. (2011). Tracing place, locating self: Embodiment and (re)mediation in/of tourist spaces. Visual Communication, 10(3), 349-366.
Thurlow, C. & Jaworski, A. (2011). Tourism discourse: Languages and banal globalization. Applied Linguistics Review, 2, 285-312.
Thurlow, C. & Bell, K. (2009). Against technologization: Young people's new media discourse as creative cultural practice. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 14(4)
Thurlow, C. & Toft, A. (2008). Others' voices: Why Dispatches from the Street? Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 1(4), 265-268. An introduction for the posthumously published Kaplan, D. (2008). Dispatches from the Street. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 1(4), 269-289.
Anspach, W.; Coe, K; and Thurlow, C. (2007). ‘The other closet?’: Atheists, homosexuals and the lateral appropriation of discursive capital. Critical Discourse Studies, 4(1), 95-119.
Thurlow, C. & Aiello, G. (2007). National pride, global capital: A social semiotic analysis of transnational visual branding in the airline industry. Visual Communication, 6(3), 305-344.
Thurlow, C. & Jaworski, A. (2006). The alchemy of the upwardly mobile: Symbolic capital and the stylization of elites in frequent-flyer programmes. Discourse & Society, 17(1), 131-167.
Thurlow, C. (2006). From statistical panic to moral panic: The metadiscursive construction and popular exaggeration of new media language in the print media. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 11(3). Available online [click link above].
Aiello, G. & Thurlow, C. (2006). Symbolic capitals: Visual discourse and intercutural exchange in the European Capital of Culture scheme. Language and Intercultural Communication, 6(2), 148-162.
Thurlow, C.; Jaworski, A. & Ylänne-McEwen, V. (2005). ‘Half-hearted tokens of transparent love’? ‘Ethnic’ postcards and the visual mediation of host-tourist communication. Tourism, Culture and Communication, 5(2), 93-104.
Thurlow, C. (2004). Relating to our work, accounting for our selves: The autobiographical imperative in teaching about difference. Language and Intercultural Communication, 4(4), 209-228.
Thurlow, C. (2003). Teenagers in communication, teenagers on communication. Journal of Language & Social Psychology, 22(1), 50–57.
Thurlow, C. & McKay, S. (2003). Profiling ‘new’ communication technologies in adolescence. Journal of Language & Social Psychology, 22(1), 94–103.
Jaworski, A.; Thurlow, C.; Ylänne-McEwen, V. & Lawson, S. (2003).The uses and representations of local languages in tourist destinations: A view from British television holiday programmes. Language Awareness, 12(1), 5–29.
Jaworski, A.; Ylänne-McEwen, V.; Thurlow, C. & Lawson, S. (2003). Social roles and the negotiation of status in host-tourist interaction: A view from British television holiday programmes. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 7(2), 135–163.
Thurlow, C. (2003). Naming the ‘outsider within’: Homophobic pejoratives and the verbal abuse of lesbian, gay and bisexual high-school pupils. Reprinted in Jandt, F.E. (ed.), Intercultural Communication: A global reader (pp. 189–202). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Thurlow, C. (2003). Generation Txt? The sociolinguistics of young people’s text-messaging. Discourse Analysis Online, 1(1). Available online [click link above].
Thurlow, C. & Jaworski, A. (2003). Communicating a global reach: Inflight magazines as a globalizing genre in tourism. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 7(4), 581-608.
Thurlow, C. (2002). High-schoolers’ peer orientation priorities: A snapshot. Journal of Adolescence, 24, 341–349. Thurlow, C. (2001). The usual suspects? A comparative investigation of crowds and social-type labelling among young British teenagers. Journal of Youth Studies, 4(3), 319–334.
Thurlow, C. (2001). Naming the ‘outsider within’: Homophobic pejoratives and the verbal abuse of lesbian, gay and bisexual high-school pupils. Journal of Adolescence, 24(1), 25-38.
Thurlow, C. (2001). Talkin’ ’bout my communication: Communication awareness in early adolescence. Language Awareness, 10 (2&3), 213 –231.
book chapters *
Jaworski, A. & Thurlow, C. (2012 in press). The (de-)centering spaces of airports: Framing mobility and multilingualism . In S. Pietikäinen & H. Kelly-Holmes (eds), Multilingualism and the Periphery. New York: Oxford University Press.
Thurlow, C. & Poff, M. (2012 in press). Text messaging. In S. C. Herring, D. Stein & T. Virtanen (eds), Handbook of the Pragmatics of CMC. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Thurlow, C. (2011). Determined creativity: Language play in new media discourse. In R. Jones (ed.). Discourse and Creativity (pp. 169-190). London: Pearson.
Thurlow, C. & Mroczek, K. (2011). Fresh perspectives on new media sociolinguistics. In C. Thurlow & K. Mroczek (eds), Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media (pp. xix-xliv). New York: Oxford University Press.
Thurlow, C. & Jaworski, A. (2011). Banal globalization? Embodied actions and mediated practices in tourists’ online photo-sharing. In C. Thurlow & K. Mroczek (eds), Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media (pp. 220-250). London & New York: Oxford University Press.
Thurlow, C. (2011). Speaking of difference: Language, inequality and interculturality. In R. Halualani & T. Nakayama (eds). Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication. Oxford: Blackwell.
Jaworski, A. & Thurlow, C. (2010). Language and the globalizing habitus of tourism: A sociolinguistics of fleeting relationships. In N. Coupland (ed), The Handbook of Language and Globalisation (pp. 256-286). Oxford: Blackwell.
Thurlow, C. & Jaworski, A. (2010). Silence is golden: Elitism, linguascaping and ‘anti-communication’ in luxury tourism. In A. Jaworski & C. Thurlow (eds), Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space (pp. 187-218). London: Continuum.
Jaworski, A. & Thurlow, C. (2010). Introducing semiotic landscapes. In A. Jaworski & C. Thurlow (eds), Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space (pp. 1-40). London: Continuum.
Jaworski, A. & Thurlow, C. (2009). Gesture and movement in tourist spaces. In C. Jewitt (ed), The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis. London & New York: Routledge.
Jaworski, A. & Thurlow, C. (2009). Talking an elitist stance: Ideology and the discursive production of social distinction. In A. Jaffee (ed.), Perspectives on Stance. New York: Oxford University Press.
Thurlow, C. (2007).Fabricating youth: New-media discourse and the technologization of young people. In Sally Johnson & Astrid Ensslin (eds), Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies (pp. 213-233). London: Continuum.
Jaworski, A.; Thurlow, C.; Ylänne-McEwen, V. & Lawson, S. (2007).The uses and representations of local languages in tourist destinations: A view from British television holiday programmes. Reprinted in Teun van Dijk (ed.) Discourse Studies (pp. 168-192). London: Sage.
Thurlow, C. & Marwick, A. (2005). Apprehension versus awareness: Toward more critical understandings of young people’s communication experiences. In Williams, A. & Thurlow, C. (eds), Talking adolescence: Perspectives on communication in the teenage years (pp. 53-72). New York: Peter Lang.
McKay, S., Thurlow, C. & Toomey Zimmerman, H. (2005). Wired whizzes or techno-slaves? Young people and their emergent communication technologies. In Williams, A. & Thurlow, C. (eds), Talking adolescence: Perspectives on communication in the teenage years (pp. 185-203). New York: Peter Lang.
Thurlow, C. (2005). Deconstructing adolescent communication. In Williams, A. & Thurlow, C. (eds), Talking adolescence: Perspectives on communication in the teenage years (pp. 1-20). New York: Peter Lang.
Jaworski, A. & Thurlow, C. (2004). Language, tourism and globalisation: Mapping new international identities. In S. H. Ng, C-Y, Chiu & C. Candlin (Eds), Language matters: Communication, identity, and culture (pp. 297-321). Hong Kong: City University Press.
Thurlow, C. (2002). In the eye of the beholder: Representations of ‘intercultural’ communication among young ‘multicultural’ teenagers. In S. Cormeraie, D. Killick & M. Parry (Eds), Revolutions in consciousness: Local identities, global concerns in languages and intercultural communication (pp. 197–207). Leeds: Leeds Metropolitan University.
Thurlow, C. (2001). Language and the internet. In R. Mesthrie & R. Asher (Eds), The concise encyclopedia of sociolinguistics (pp. 287-289). London: Pergamon.
Thurlow, C. (2001). “I don’t have one – it’s just normal.” Young teenagers’ ideas about ‘culture’: Critical transcultural communication awareness and the exoticisation of Self. In D. Killick, M. Parry & A. Phipps (Eds), Poetics and praxis of languages and intercultural communication (pp. 111–125) Glasgow: Glasgow French & German Publications.
Editorials *
Tomic, A. & Thurlow, C. (2003). Editorial. Language and Intercultural Communication, 3(1), 1-5.
Thurlow, C. (2002). Editorial. Language and Intercultural Communication, 2(2), 81-85.