Wealthy woman's total linguistic facts

Short-form videos reign supreme on platforms such as TikTok and Instragram. Consider, for instance how reels, stories or shorts flood our timelines with bite-sized videos that entertain us with observational comedy, persuade us to buy certain products or promote trending lifestyles or worldviews. Typically, such videos focus attention not only on what people do, but also on how they talk, gesture or dress. Speech, body language and appearance do identity work: they create cultural meaning by associating types of language use with types of speakers. This article shows how you can grasp such cultural meanings by analyzing the total linguistic fact. A character video made by a stand-up comedian will be used to illustrate our argument.