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Author:   Brenda Danet (Professor of Sociology and Communication, Professor of Sociology and Communication, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Emerita)) ,  Susan C. Herring (Professor of Information Science and Linguistics, Professor of Information Science and Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 15.70cm
Weight:   0.653kg
ISBN:  

9780195304800

ISBN 10:   0195304802
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   07 June 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Chapter 1: Introduction: Welcome to the Multilingual Internet: Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring: Part I: Writing Systems and the Internet Chapter 2: ""A Funky Language for Teenzz to Use:"" Representing Gulf Arabic in Instant Messaging: David Palfreyman and Muhamed Al Khalil: Chapter 4: Neography: Unconventional Spelling in French SMS Text Messages: Jacques Anis: Chapter 5: ""It's all Greeklish to me!:"" Linguistic and Sociocultural Perspectives on Roman-alphabeted Greek in Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication: Theodora Tseliga: Chapter 6: Greeklish and Greekness: Trends and Discourses of ""Glocalness"": Dimitris Koutsogiannis and Bessie Mitsikopoulou: Chapter 7: Linguistic Innovations and Interactional Features of Japanese BBS Communication: Yukiko Nishimura: Chapter 8: Linguistic Features of Email and ICQ Instant Messaging in Hong Kong: Carmen K. M. Lee: Chapter 9: Can Machine Translation Enhance the Status of Catalan versus Spanish in Online Academic Forums?: Salvador Climent, Joaquim Mor='e, Antoni Oliver, M='iriam Salvatierra, Imma Sánchez, and Mariona Taul=e: Part III: Gender and Culture Chapter 10: Gender and Turn Allocation in a Thai Chat Room: Siriporn Panyametheekul and Susan C. Herring: Chapter 11: Breaking Conversational Norms of a Portuguese Users Network: Men as Adjudicators of Politeness?: Sandi Michele de Oliveira: Chapter 12: Kaomoji and Expressivity in a Japanese Housewives' Chatroom: Hirofumi Katsuno and Christine Yano: Part IV: Language Choice and Code-Switiching Chapter 13: Language Choice Online: Globalization and Identity in Egypt: Mark Warschauer, Ghada R. El Said, and Ayman Zohry: Chapter 14: Language Choice on a Swiss Mailing List: Mercedes Durham: Chapter 15: Language Choice and Code-Switching in German-Based Diasporic Web Forums: Jannis Androutsopoulos: Chapter 16: Anyone Speak Swedish? Tolerance for Language Shifting in Graphical Multi-User Virtual Environments: Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Åsa Abelin, and Ralph Schroeder: Part V: Broader Perspectives: Language Diversity Chapter 17: The European Union in Cyberspace: Democratic Participation via Online Multilingual Discussion Boards: Ruth Wodak and Scott Wright: Chapter 18: How Much Multilingualism? Language Diversity on the Internet: John C. Paolillo: Index"

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This book constitutes a landmark contribution to investigations into varied facets of language, culture, and onine communication. Just as [Naomi] Baron comments, it will prove to be a classic work among the internet literature. The volume will provide an invaluable resource for students as well as researchers in an array of fields. --Linguist List

<br> This book constitutes a landmark contribution to investigations into varied facets of language, culture, and onine communication. Just as [Naomi] Baron comments, it will prove to be a classic work among the internet literature. The volume will provide an invaluable resource for students as well as researchers in an array of fields. --Linguist List<br>

This book constitutes a landmark contribution to investigations into varied facets of language, culture, and onine communication. Just as [Naomi] Baron comments, it will prove to be a classic work among the internet literature. The volume will provide an invaluable resource for students as well as researchers in an array of fields. --Linguist List<br>

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