Publications
Squires, Lauren. 2020. Indexical bleaching. In Stanlaw, James (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. [link]
Squires, Lauren. 2020. Experimental approaches. In Bas Aarts, April McMahon, and Lars Hinrichs (eds.), The Handbook of English Linguistics, 2nd edition, 45-61. [link]
Holliday, Nicole R., and Lauren Squires. 2020. Sociolinguistic labor, linguistic climate, and race(ism) on campus: Black college students’ experiences with language at predominantly white institutions. Journal of Sociolinguistics. [link]
Squires, Lauren. 2019. Genre and linguistic expectation shift: Evidence from pop song lyrics. Language in Society. [link]
Squires, Lauren. 2018. Review of Discourse-pragmatic variation in context: 800 years of LIKE, by Alexandra D’Arcy. English Language & Linguistics. [link]
Squires, Lauren. 2017. Mini-experiments for teaching across the English linguistics syllabus. American Speech 92(2): 231-252. [link]
Squires, Lauren. 2016. Processing grammatical differences: Perceiving v. noticing. In Anna Babel (Ed.), Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research, 80-103. Cambridge University Press.
Squires, Lauren (Ed.). 2016. English in Computer-Mediated Communication: Variation, Representation, and Change. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Squires, Lauren. 2016. Introduction: Variation, representation, and change in English in CMC. In Lauren Squires (Ed.), English in Computer-Mediated Communication: Variation, Representation, and Change, 1-14. De Gruyter.
Squires, Lauren. 2016. Stylistic uniformity and variation online and on-screen: A case study of The Real Housewives. In Lauren Squires (Ed.), English in Computer-Mediated Communication: Variation, Representation, and Change, 213-240. De Gruyter.
Squires, Lauren. 2016. Computer-mediated communication and the English writing system. In Vivian Cook and Des Ryan (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System, 471-486. Routledge.
Squires, Lauren. 2016. Twitter: Design, discourse, and the implications of public text. In Tereza Spilioti & Alexandra Georgakapoulou (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication, 239-255. Routledge. [link]
Squires, Lauren. 2014. Social differences in the processing of grammatical variation. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 20(2) (Selected Papers from NWAV42). [link]
Squires, Lauren. 2014. Knowledge, processing, evaluation: Testing the perception of English subject-verb agreement variation. Journal of English Linguistics 42(2): 144-172. [link]
Squires, Lauren. 2014. Talker specificity and the perception of grammatical variation. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (formerly Language and Cognitive Processes) 29(7): 856-876. [link]
Squires, Lauren. 2014. Class and productive avoidance in The Real Housewives reunions. Discourse, Context, & Media 6: 33-44. [link]
Squires, Lauren & Josh Iorio. 2014. Tweets in the news: Legitimizing medium, standardizing form. In Jannis Androutsopoulos (ed.), Mediatization and Sociolinguistic Change, 331-360. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [link]
Squires, Lauren. 2014. From TV personality to fans and beyond: Indexical bleaching and the diffusion of a media innovation. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 24(1): 42-62. [link]
Squires, Lauren. 2013. It don’t go both ways: Limited bidirectionality in sociolinguistic perception. Journal of Sociolinguistics 17(2): 200-237. [link]
Squires, Lauren. 2012. Whos punctuating what? Sociolinguistic variation in instant messaging. In Alexandra Jaffe, Jannis Androutsopoulos, Mark Sebba, & Sally Johnson (Eds.), Orthography as Social Action: Scripts, Spelling, Identity and Power, 289-324. Mouton de Gruyter (Language and Social Processes).
Squires, Lauren. 2011. Voicing “sexy text”: Heteroglossia and erasure in TV news broadcast representations of Detroit’s text message scandal. In Crispin Thurlow & Kristine Mozcrek (Eds.),Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media, 3-25. Oxford University Press (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics). [pdf]
Queen, Robin and Lauren Squires. 2011. Writing a Dissertation (In the Profession column). Journal of English Linguistics.(Invited) [link]
Squires, Lauren and Robin Queen. 2011. Media clips collection: Creation and application for the linguistics classroom. American Speech 86(2): 220-234. [link]
Squires, Lauren. 2010. Enregistering internet language. Language in Society 39(4): 457-492. [link]
Baron, Naomi, Lauren Squires, Sara Tench, & Marshall Thompson. 2005. Tethered or mobile? Use of away messages in instant messaging by American college students. In Rich Ling & Per Pedersen (Eds.), Mobile Communications: Re-negotiation of the Social Sphere, 293-311. London: Springer. [pdf]
Squires, Lauren. 2004. College students in multimedia relationships: Choosing, using, and fusing communication technologies. American University TESOL Working Papers 2. [pdf]