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The Conversation
- "How the Unabomber's unique linguistic fingerprints led to his capture." June 2023 <link>
- "What is that voice in your head when you read?" May 2023 <link>
- “A tweak to the University of Nebraska's logo shows how the once benign 'OK' sign has entered a 'purgatory of meaning.'" April 2023 <link>
- "What is 'algospeak'? Inside the newest version of linguistic subterfuge." April 2023 <link>
-summarized in The New York Times, May 2023 <link>
- "How 'gate' became the syllable of scandal." May 2022 <link>
- "‘Let’s Go Brandon’ and the linguistic jiujitsu of American politics." November 2021 <link>
- "How Trump’s language shifted in the weeks leading up to the Capitol riot – 2 linguists explain." January 2021 <link>
- "The complicated origin of the expression 'peanut gallery.'" November 2020 <link>
- "How COVID-19 is changing the English language." September 2020 <link>
- "Charlie Hebdo shootings served as an extreme example of the history of attacks on satirists." September 2020 <link>
- "Why ‘I was just being sarcastic’ can be such a convenient excuse." July 2020 <link>
- "What makes something ironic?" February 2020 <link>
- "One skill that doesn't deteriorate with age." September 2019 <link>
-also featured in "Grammar Girl" podcast #939, August 2023 <link>
Psychology Today
- "What your idiolect says about you," September 2023 <link>
- "Is speed listening right for you?," July 2023 <link>
- "Why we mishear each other so often," July 2023 <link>
- "These books will change how you think about language," June 2023 <link>
- "Biases in how we communicate can't be fixed with emojis," May 2023 <link>
- "The problem with emojis," May 2023 <link>
- "In praise of mixed metaphors," April 2023 <link>
- "How we talk when we talk about January 6," March 2023 <link>
- "How the words candidates use affect their campaigns," February 2023 <link>
Other online articles
- "English and Covid: A language meets a pandemic." The World Financial Review, January 2022 <link>
- "Roger Kreuz on irony and the OED." Oxford English Dictionary blog, January 2021 <link>
- "Is Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis ironic?" PopMatters, October 2020 <link>
- "Pragmatics in the classroom: Don’t take it literally." TESL Ontario Contact, November 2017 <link>
- "Another language at any age." Healthy Aging, Spring/Summer 2017 <link>
Book excerpts
- "'I've lost my identity': On the mysteries of foreign accent syndrome" (excerpted from Changing Minds, chapter three). The MIT Press Reader, March 2021 <link>
- "What the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon says about cognitive aging" (excerpted from Changing Minds, chapter three). The MIT Press Reader, December 2020 <link>
- "What irony is not" (Irony and Sarcasm, chapter five). The MIT Press Reader, August 2020 <link>
- "The irony of how we use the word 'irony'" (excerpted from Irony and Sarcasm, chapter two). Salon, February 2020 <link>
- “Proxemics 101: Understanding personal space across cultures” (excerpted from Getting Through, chapter five). The MIT Press Reader, December 2019 <link>
- "Telling stories: why your elderly relatives are the best storytellers” (excerpted from Changing Minds, chapter four). BBC Science Focus, September 2019 <link>
- "Can learning a foreign language prevent dementia?" (excerpted from Becoming Fluent, chapter five). The MIT Press Reader, July 2019 <link>
Interviews
- Why we often misunderstand each other. Something You Should Know, July 2023 <link>
- What is social media 'algospeak' and how does it interact with AI? KCBS Radio, April 2023 <link>
- Fifty years since the Watergate affair. BBC World Service Newshour, June 2022 <link>
- 50 years after Watergate, the 'gate' suffix describes scandals big and small. CBC Day 6, June 2022 <link>
- How to communicate. BBC News World Service Business Daily, June 2021 <link>
- New Books Network interview with Malcolm Keating, January 2021 <link>
- The David Feldman Show, Episode 1155, July 2020 <link>
- Podcast with James Harrigan, Freedom Center Today, June 2020 <link>
- "Coronavirus is reshaping personal space. But what does that really mean?" Maria Paula Rubiano, Scienceline, May 2020 <link>
- Podcast with Bobbi and Mike Carducci. Rodger That, January 2020 <link>
- Podcast with Paul Vogelzang, The Not Old - Better Show, December 2019 <link>
- Tackling mental health myths. All in the Mind, BBC Radio 4, November 2019 <link>
- Chinese Social Sciences Today, September 2019 <link>
- Podcast with Kerstin Cable, The Fluent Show, April 2019 <link>
- "Context matters: Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts explore the pitfalls when we talk across cultural barriers." Chapter 16, January 2018 <link>
- Getting Through, MIT Press blog, October 2017 <link>
- Becoming Fluent, MIT Press blog, January 2016 <link>
- Radio interview on 1013 Main Street, Broadcast on TBS eFM, Seoul, South Korea, January 2014:
Videos
- NEDTalks, University of Memphis, April 2017 <link>
- Mind, Technology, and Society Talk Series, UC Merced, March 2017 <link>
- Cognitive Science Seminar, University of Memphis, September 2015 <link>
Media coverage
- "From COVID to curbside, 2020 changed our vocabulary too." Los Angeles Times, December 2020 <link>
- The Foreign Service Journal, November 2020 <link>
- "Our love-hate relationship with sarcasm." Medium, August 2020 <link>
- "Can you learn a new language after 50?" AARP, February 2020 <link>
- "Is it just me, or does Duolingo not work?" New York magazine, January 2019 <link>
- "So you want to date someone who's sarcastic? How original." The Washington Post, November 2018 (subscription required) <link>
- reposted by The Toronto Star (link)
- "How nonverbal cues can break down language barrier, according to a travel psychologist," May 2018 <link>
- "What's in a chunk? Enhancing vocabulary learning in the EFL classroom," April 2018 <link>
- The Foreign Service Journal, November 2017 <link>
- The Foreign Service Journal, November 2015 <link>
- "People love your sarcasm, really." The Wall Street Journal, August 2015 (subscription required) <link>
- "All your questions about the Jinx finale answered." Slate.com, March 2015 <link>