Dr A.J.P. Verheijen (Lieke)

Assistant professor - Centre for Language Studies
Assistant professor - Department of Language and Communication

Contact

lieke.verheijen@ru.nl
024-3620008

Visiting address

Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

Working days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Lieke has expertise in the area of language use on social media (WhatsApp, chat, texting) and its impact on literacy and writing skills. She studies youth language in digital communication.

Tags: computer-mediated communication, digital texts, literacy, (academic) writing, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, applied linguistics

Research theme

Persuasive communication

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Key publications

Verheijen, L. (2013). The effects of text messaging and instant messaging on literacy. English Studies, 94(5), 582–602.
Verheijen, L. (2015). Out-of-the-ordinary orthography: the use of textisms in Dutch youngsters’ written computer-mediated communication. York Papers in Linguistics, special issue, PARLAY Proceedings, 2, 127–142.
Verheijen, L. (2016). De macht van nieuwe media: hoe Nederlandse jongeren communiceren in sms’jes, chats en tweets. In D. van de Mieroop, L. Buysse, R. Coesemans & P. Gillaerts (eds.), De macht van de taal: Taalbeheersingsonderzoek in Nederland en Vlaanderen (pp. 275-293). Leuven / Den Haag: Acco.
Verheijen, L., & W. Stoop (2016). Collecting Facebook posts and WhatsApp chats: corpus compilation of private social media messages. In P. Sojka et al. (red.), Text, Speech and Dialogue: 19th International Conference, TSD 2016, LNAI 9924 (pp. 249-258). Springer.
Verheijen, L. (2016). Linguistic characteristics of Dutch computer-mediated communication: CMC and school writing compared. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities, 66–69.

Dr A.J.P. Verheijen (Lieke)

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