Three Stars is for Authenticity: Cuisine and its Impact on Yelp Reviews

Communications

Mae Altarac, Chloe Chang, Alyssa Cheung, Larissa Li, Tiffany Lieu Societal expectations affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives, even extending as far as what we choose to include in restaurant reviews. Although the main purpose of reading reviews is to learn about the restaurant itself, researchers can also learn about patterns of stereotypes […]

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How Slang Creates and Perpetuates Gendered Power Dynamics in Greek Life

Communications, Language and Gender

Alexa Waldman, Teresa Humbert, Morgan Moseley, Luke Kim Prior to joining greek life, I was exposed to the stereotype that sorority girls were mean and hierarchical whereas fraternity boys were friendly and laid back. I was told to be prepared for girls to make comments that impose their superiority to make me feel small. However,

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Generational Differences in Social Media Communication

Communications

Giordano Camera, Dylan Carr, Phoebe Haas, Nicole Wasserman Have you wondered why your dad sends you extremely long texts compared to your best friends, who use memes and slang phrases for most of their communication? In our study, we explored two generations, Generation Z and Generation X and their language use on online social networking

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Beyond the Beat: Exploring Objectification in Rap and Country Lyrics

Communications, Language and Gender, Sociolinguistics

Riley Go, Ashley Lew, Ileen Luu, Ysabella Yuquimpo “Don’t my baby look good in them blue jeans?” Rap music has been largely criticized for its objectification of women. Yet, why has country music not gained the same reputation? Known for being family-friendly, romantic, and inoffensive, “country music is often left out of sexual media analyses

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Observation of Dating Practices Through Digital Dating Profile Analysis

Communications, Language and Gender, Sociolinguistics

Natasha Franco, Savannah Phillips, Remy Averitt, Navid Toomarian In the modern age of digital dating, the way individuals present themselves on platforms like Hinge provides valuable insight into the underlying dynamics and intentions driving their romantic pursuits. This study is motivated by the observation that relationship management and healthy dating practices aren’t widely covered in

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To Hear or Not To Hear: Identifying Speaker Ethnicity By Auditory Clips

Communications, Language and Identity

Caroline Breckling This study investigates to what extent individuals are able to identify a person’s ethnicity based solely on the sound of their voice. Expanding on previous research demonstrating humans’ relative accuracy in recognizing ethnicities by voice, this investigation aims to explore whether a listener’s own ethnicity or familiarity with other ethnicities affects their accuracy

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Friendships For the Mono- and Bi-Lingual College Student: Does The Language You Speak Make A Difference in How You Make Friends?

Bilingualism

In the course of our research, we endeavored to examine the difference in the social life of UCLA college students, their capacity to make friends, and satisfy their need for social support with fellow students based on their status as a monolingual or bilingual speaker of English. Drawing on support from previous research dealing with

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Formality in the UCLA Community: Communication and Self-Expression in the Digital Age

Sociolinguistics

Online communication has undoubtedly brought on more opportunities for misunderstanding. However, the use of linguistic elements such as internet slang and emojis represent the myriad ways that humans expand our linguistic toolbox. Through our research, collected through online surveys and interviews with several members of the UCLA community, we found that formality is shaped by

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Cultural Identity Maintained Through Code-switching among Immigrant Generations in a Dominant English Country

Sociolinguistics

The United States is often hailed as a country of immigrants, but in reality there are complex social and cultural factors which play a role in the U.S. immigrant experience, one of the greatest being language. While the U.S. has no official language, English is the predominant means of communication, and plays a large role

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