The Multilingual Internet Language, Culture, and Communication Online [Paperback]

Two thirds of global internet users are non-English speakers. Despite this, most scholarly literature on the internet and computer-mediated-communication (CMC) focuses exclusively on English. This is the first book devoted to analyzing internet related CMC in languages other than English. The volume collects 18 new articles on facets of language and internet use, all of which revolve around several central topics: writing systems, the structure and features of local languages and how they affect internet use, code switching between multiple languages, gender issues, public policy issues, and so on.

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 S?nchez, 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 Nlã+