Background
Gretchen McCulloch was born in Canada.
405 Rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal, QC H2L 2C4, Canada
Carol-Rose Little, Colin Brown, Lauren Clemens, Jessica Coon, Lisa Travis, Gretchen McCulloch, Emily Elfner, Cora Lesure, Henrison Hsieh, Hadas Kotek, Elise McClay, Heather Newell, and Gustavo Beritognolo at Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas at the University of Quebec at Montreal in 2016.
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
Natália Brambatti Guzzo, Hadas Kotek, Carolyn Anderson, Gretchen McCulloch, Jeffrey Lamontagne, Henrison Hsieh, Frederick Gietz, and Nico Baier at the 2018 LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America at McGill University.
99 University Ave, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
Queen's University where Gretchen McCulloch received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
McGill University where Gretchen McCulloch received her Master of Arts degree.
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Gretchen McCulloch with Heather Froehlich.
Gretchen McCulloch with at LSA 2018.
Gretchen McCulloch with Lauren Gawne.
Gretchen McCulloch with McGill linguists in 2015.
405 Rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal, QC H2L 2C4, Canada
Carol-Rose Little, Colin Brown, Lauren Clemens, Jessica Coon, Lisa Travis, Gretchen McCulloch, Emily Elfner, Cora Lesure, Henrison Hsieh, Hadas Kotek, Elise McClay, Heather Newell, and Gustavo Beritognolo at Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas at the University of Quebec at Montreal in 2016.
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
Natália Brambatti Guzzo, Hadas Kotek, Carolyn Anderson, Gretchen McCulloch, Jeffrey Lamontagne, Henrison Hsieh, Frederick Gietz, and Nico Baier at the 2018 LSA Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America at McGill University.
(Language is humanity’s most spectacular open-source proje...)
Language is humanity’s most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What’s more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real-time.
https://www.amazon.com/Because-Internet-Understanding-Rules-Language/dp/0735210934
2019
Gretchen McCulloch was born in Canada.
Gretchen McCulloch has been interested in linguistics since she was about 12 years old, and languages even before that.
She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics from Queen's University. In 2013 she received a Master of Arts degree in Linguistics from McGill University.
Gretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist: she explores the language of the internet for the people of the internet. She is interested in bridging the gap between linguistics and the general public.
McCulloch is the Resident Linguist at Wired from 2018 and has also written for Slate from 2014 till 2015, the Washington Post, Mental Floss from March till November 2015, and The Toast from December 2013 till June 2016. McCulloch is the creator of the daily linguistics blog All Things Linguistic, and the co-creator of Lingthusiasm, a podcast about linguistics.
She’s also done radio interviews with NPR (All Tech Considered, Youth Radio, Kojo Show), with CBC Spark, and with the BBC Today Programme. She was also a teaching assistant at McGill University from September 2012 till April 2013.
Gretchen is also the author of 2019 book Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. This book is written to understand how the internet is changing the English language, why that’s a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are.
(Language is humanity’s most spectacular open-source proje...)
2019
Quotations:
"I think part of what’s so fascinating is that language is the type of thing that you can approach very scientifically and try to figure out how it works, but at the same time you can find a lot of data to analyze without a microscope or any fancy equipment, just by having a conversation with someone or overhearing things on the street."
"One of the things that I think is unique about blogging is that it gives you the opportunity to write long-form pieces where you’re both writer and editor, so you can do everything according to your personal style guide."
Gretchen McCulloch likes fancy hats and epic ice-cream. She speaks English, French, Spanish, German, and Latin.
Quotes from others about the person
"McCulloch is such a disarming writer - lucid, friendly, unequivocally excited about her subject - that I began to marvel at the flexibility of the online language she describes, with its numerous shades of subtlety."
"Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist." - Jonny Sun