• PhD in English from the University of Birmingham, 2009, ‘A corpus analysis of SMS text messaging’
• MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from Leicester University, 2004
• Trinity College TESOL Certificate, 1997
• BA (Hons) in History and Politics from the University of Exeter, 1997

I started work at the University of Birmingham in September 2011. Before that, I held a lecturer post at the Open University from 2009 to 2011. I had previously taught English as a foreign language in Spain, Vietnam and Birmingham.

I teach on both the campus-based and distance MA programmes, as well as on undergraduate modules in the English Department at the University of Birmingham.

In the academic year 2012-13, I have been teaching on the new third-year undergraduate module, 'Ordinary Creativity', and on 'Independent Study: Language', a first-year module.

I have also been teaching the postgraduate module, 'Second Language Teaching and Learning', in the autumn term and 'Language and New Media' from January 2013. 

I am interested in supervising students in the following areas:

• language use and communication on new media sites
• creativity and code-switching (particularly, but not only, online)
• projects involving the use of corpus approaches, alongside other methods
• pedagogic applications of the above.

My research interests lie predominantly in the area of digital interaction, and I am particularly interested in text messaging (which formed the basis of my PhD research) and social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter. I am currently researching multilingual interactions on social media, and particularly the way in which the use of English, alongside other languages, facilitates new translocally-configured communities online.

I interested in language play and creativity in everyday contexts, including online domains. I have used corpus analysis tools in my research, and am interested in research which combines corpus methods with other approaches.

I am also involved in a project researching multimodality and academic writing, in particular the way in which readers engage with figures and other representations of data in research articles.

I am a member of the BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics) Executive Committee. 

• Seargeant, P., J. Swann and Tagg, C. (forthcoming) Language and Digital Globalisation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Tagg, C. (forthcoming) Exploring Digital Communication: language in action. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Seargeant, P. and Tagg, C. (eds) (in press, 2013) Language and Social Media: communication and community online. Palgrave.
• Tagg, C. and P. Seargeant (in press, 2013) ‘Audience design and language choice in the construction of translocal communities on social network sites’ Seargeant, P. and Tagg, C. (eds) Language and Social Media: communication and community online. Palgrave.
• Tagg, C., Baron, A. and Rayson, P. (2013) '“I didn’t spel that wrong did i. Oops”: analysis and standardisation of SMS spelling variation’ Lingvisticæ Investigationes, 35/2: 367-388.
• Hewings, A. and C. Tagg (eds) (2012) The Politics of English: conflict, competition, co-existence. London: Routledge.
• Seargeant, P., Tagg, C. and Ngampramuan, W. (2012) ‘Language choice and addressivity strategies in Thai-English social network interactions’, Journal of Sociolinguistics 16:4: 510-531.
• Tagg, C. (2012) The Discourse of Text Messaging: analysis of SMS communication. London: Continuum.
• Tagg, C. and Seargeant, P. (2012) 'Writing systems at play in Thai-English online interactions', Writing Systems Research 4/2: 195-213.
• Tagg, C. (2012) ‘Corpora and texting’ in Hyland, K, Chau, M. H. and Handford, M. (eds) Corpora in Applied Lingusitics: Current approaches and future directions. Continuum.
• Tagg, C. (2012) ‘Good and Bad English’ in Hewings, A. and Tagg, C. (eds) The Politics of English: competition, conflict, co-existence. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Tagg, C. (2012) ‘Digital English’ in Allington, D. and B. Mayor (eds) Communicating in English: text, talk, technology. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Seargeant, P. and Tagg, C. (2011) 'English on the internet and a post-varieties approach to language', World Englishes  30/4: 496-514.
• Tagg, C. (2010) ‘wot did he say or could u not c him 4 dust? Written and Spoken Creativity in Text Messaging’ in Ho et al (eds) Transforming literacies and language: Innovative technologies, integrated experiences. London: Continuum.
• Tagg, C. (2007) ‘Corpus-based analysis of SMS text messaging’ in Teo, P. and C. Ho (eds) Discourse in the Modern World: Perspectives and Challenges. Singapore: McGraw Hill, pp. 267-284.

Conference papers

• 'Revisiting text messaging as a new, emergent register' Paper to be presented at Register Revisited: new perspectives on functional text variety in English, in Vechta, June 2013.
• 'Negotiating social roles in semi-public online contexts'. Paper to be presented at the BAAL-CUP sponsored seminar, Conceptualising multilingualism under superdiversity: membership claims, social categories and emblems of authenticity, at the University of Birmingham in June 2013.
• 'Moving towards multimodality: implications for corpus linguistics of a study of medical articles'. Paper to be presented at ICAME 34, Santiago de Compostela, May 2013.
• 'Multilingual interactions on Facebook: where speech communities meet transitory networks' (with Philip Seargeant). Paper presented as part of the colloquium 'Social media/social knowledge' at BAAL 2012 at the University of Southampton, September 2012.
• 'The role of English as an online lingua franca: code choice and  translocality on social network sites' (with Philip Seargeant). Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 19 in Berlin, August 2012.
• 'Managing online communities: addressivity and language choice on SNSs'. Plenary talk given at the Language and Social Media BAAL-CUP seminar, University of Leicester, April 2012.
• ‘Orthographic creativity in Twitter: tweeting about the World Cup 2010’ (with Oliver Mason) 2011 International Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, July 2011.
• ‘Using verifiable author data: gender and spelling differences in Twitter and SMS’ (with Alistair Baron, Paul Rayson, Phil Greenwood, James Walkerdine, and Awais Rashid) ICAME 32, University of Oslo, June 2011.
• ‘Linguistic hybridity and Anglophone influence in Thai social network interactions’ GURT 2011, Georgetown University, 2011.‘ 
• “I didn’t spel that wrong did i. Oops”: Analysis and standardisation of SMS spelling variation’ with Alistair Baron and Paul Rayson) ICAME 31 Justus Liebig University Gießen, May 2010.
• ‘English on the internet and a post-varieties approach to language’ (with Philip Seargeant and Wipapan Ngampramuan) BAAL 2010, University of Aberdeen, September 2010.
• ‘Head ok but throat wrecked: Grammatical choices in text messaging’ BAAL Conference 2009, University of Newcastle, September 2009.
• ‘Can’t believe you forgot my surname Mr NAME241, Ill give you a clue, it’s Spanish and begins with m: Anonymising a corpus of text messages’ Corpus Linguistics Conference 2009, University of Liverpool, July 2009.
• ‘Scraping the barrel with a shower of social misfits: creativity in text messaging’ IVACS Conference 2008, University of Limerick, June 2008.
• ‘All a bit mind boggling really: some observations regarding the frequencies of a and the in text messaging’ Corpus Linguistics Conference 2007, University of Birmingham, July 2007.