The Multilingual Internet

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.

Front Matter 1 Introduction Part I 2 “A Funky Language for Teenzz to Use” 3 The Multilingual and Multiorthographic Taiwan-Based Internet 4 Neography 5 “It’s All Greeklish to Me!” 6 Greeklish and Greekness Part II 7 Linguistic Innovations and Interactional Features in Japanese BBS Communication 8 Linguistic Features of Email and ICQ Instant Messaging in Hong Kong 9 Enhancing the Status of Catalan versus Spanish in Online Academic Forums Part III 10 Gender and Turn Allocation in a Thai Chat Room 11 Breaking Conversational Norms on a Portuguese Users’ Network 12 Kaomoji and Expressivity in a Japanese Housewives’ Chat Room Part IV 13 Language Choice Online 14 Language Choice on a Swiss Mailing List 15 Language Choice and Code Switching in German-Based Diasporic Web Forums 16 Anyone Speak Swedish? Part V 17 The European Union in Cyberspace 18 How Much Multilingualism? End Matter

Edited by Brenda Danet, Professor of Sociology and Communication, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Emerita), and Susan C. Herring, Professor of Information Science and Linguistics, Indiana University

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