research and writing

This page shows some indicative publications in each of my core areas of interest. For a more comprehensive list of publications, please click on the link to the left and see the overview of my current projects.

adolescence and age-related boundaries

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.

Thurlow, C. (2003). Teenagers in communication, teenagers on communication. Journal of Language & Social Psychology, 22(1), 50-57.

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.

tourism and national/ethnic/class boundaries

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.

Jaworski, A.; Thurlow, C; Ylänne-McEwen, V. & Lawson, S. (2003/2007).The uses and representations of local languages in tourist destinations: A view from British television holiday programmes. Language Awareness, 12(1), 1-25. Reprinted in Teun van Dijk (ed.) Discourse Studies (pp. 168-192). London: Sage.

Thurlow, C. & Jaworski, A. (2003). Communicating a global reach: Inflight magazines as a globalizing genre in tourism. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 7(4), 581-608.

sex/uality and gender boundaries.

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. (2005). Relating to our work, accounting for our selves: The autobiographical imperative in teaching about difference. Language and Intercultural Communication, 4(3), 209-228.

Thurlow, C. (2001/2003). 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. Reprinted in Fred E. Jandt (Ed.), Intercultural Communication: A global reader (pp. 189-202). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

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