Dr A.J.P. Verheijen (Lieke)
Assistant professor - Centre for Language Studies
Programme director - Department of Language and Communication
Assistant professor - Department of Language and Communication
Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN
Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN
Liekes expertise lies in the field of language on social media, covering both interpersonal and professional digital communication.
The themes her research focuses on include:
- impact of social media on literacy (writing skills, digital literacy)
- effects of social media on language use (e.g. youth language)
- language change due to social media (such as orthographic and lexical changes)
- language variation on social media (sociolinguistic diversity)
- multimodality in language on social media (verbal & visual elements, emojis)
- language style accommodation on social media (interlocutor mirroring)
- multilingualism on social media (code-switching/code-mixing).
Much of her recent research is about emoji. She studies use, meaning, attitudes, and effects of emojis, in intercultural and intergenerational digital communication contexts.