research and writing
This page shows some indicative publications in my two 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.
young people, new media and age-related boundaries
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.
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, global mobility and national/ethnic/class boundariesThurlow, 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.
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.
