Where lol Is: Function and Position of lol Used as a Discourse Marker in YouTube Comments by Célia Schneebeli

“…It is generally taken to be the acronym of “laughing out loud”, but it is not always used to indicate a humorous response; rather, it is multifunctional. …”
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“TO JOKE ABOUT GOD”: ANECDOTES OF HAJI HASAN MUSTAPA by Jajang A Rohmana, Muhamad Zuldin

“…He did not show his superiority as a respected Dutch official, nor did he extricate himself from various tensions and obstacles. This generally relates to the low level of religious knowledge of his interlocutors. …”
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A Systemic Approach to Inceptive Constructions in Lithuanian by Rolandas Mikulskas

“…They are (given in the preterital form): pradėjo, ėmė (‘started’; ‘began’); puolė, šoko, metėsi (orig. …”
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Creating a place for us: an overview of the FICE young people's conference 2004 by Irene Stevens

“…Throughout the last three days I’ve laughed, danced, played sport and, most importantly, learnt so much about different cultures and nationalities. …”

Conflits, féminité et identités diasporiques. Le pouvoir de la représentation chez Pratibha Parmar et Gurinder Chadha by Amandine Ducray

“…Ever since they started making films, British Asian female directors Pratibha Parmar and Gurinder Chadha have been aiming to better represent their community and tackle the specific concerns of women from their ethnic groups. Somehow emblematic of the self-representation encouraged by Channel Four in the eighties, such documentaries as Sari Red (Pratibha Parmar, 1988) and I’m British But... …”
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Vulnerability and Shame in the Writing of the Female Body: Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self by Lucía Bennett-Ortega

“…More specifically, I make use of Elaine Scarry’s (1985) formulation of the stages of the “projection of the body,” to examine the journey Pine undergoes in the conceptualisation of her own body: from being ashamed to unashamed. The second part of the analysis explores how Pine’s style of writing leads to the reclaiming of the female body along the lines of what Hélène Cixous (1976) advocates in her influential essay ‘The Laugh of the Medusa.’ …”
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