Anni Oja


anni.oja@tlu.ee
Research blog (mainly in Estonian)
PhD Candidate in Linguistics
Institute of Estonian Language and Culture
Tallinn University

Areas of scientific interest: language of Internet communication (computer-mediated communication), corpus linguistics, language and identity, language change, sociolinguistics.

Current research topic: Analysis of Estonian Internet language and communication, based on the corpus of rate.ee web portal

Publications:

* Oja, A. (2008.) The functions of emoticons in rate.ee web communication environment. Publications of international conference Megaling 2007.

* Oja, A.; Simm, J. (2008). Knowledge communication in rate.ee, a web picture rating community. International Journal of Web Based Communities, special issue on Knowledge communication in web communities

* Gerassimenko, O.; Oja, A.; Kruglov, D. (2007). Social factors in creation of popular virtual identity. In: Prikladna lingvistika ta lingvistichni tehnologij. Ed. Shirokv, V. A. Kiev: Dovira, 2007, 90-96 (in Russian)

* Oja, A. (2006). Finding an identity, designing the identity: study of web-based communication. In: Kompjuternaja lingvistika i intellektual'nye tehnologii. Trudy mezhdunarodnoj konferentsii "Dialog 2006". Ed. Laufer, N. I., Narin'jani, A. S., Selegeja, V. P. Moskva: RGGU, 2006, 611-615

* Oja, A. (2006). Eesti keel internetis. Koit, Mare; Pajusalu, Renate; Õim, Haldur (Toim.). Keel ja arvuti (259 - 267). Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus (in Estonian)