Multilingualism Online

Reviews / Votes

"A timely addition to the growing scholarship on language use in digital contexts. In this book, Lee elegantly weaves together topics ranging from linguistic diversity to code-switching to online translation. Written in a highly engaging style, Multilingualism Online is the first comprehensive work to engage with these topics since Danet & Herring?s The Multilingual Internet (2007); at the same time, Lee shows us just how much has changed over the last decade -- both in terms of technological affordances as well as in our digital practices." Camilla Vasquez, University of South Florida, USA Camilla Vasquez, South Florida, was very positive.

Definitely the book could be used as a core or supplementary text for any of the above courses (Sociolinguistics, Literacy, Multilingualism, New Media Studies. And any other courses related to language and new media in departments such as: Linguistics, World Languages, Language Education, Literacy, English, Communication, Sociology). If the course taught were specifically about Multilingualism in the Digital Age, or specifically about Sociolinguistics in the Digital Age, this would be the perfect core text. ... I think it is excellent: clear, thorough, convincing, and covers a range of related (and relevant) issues. This book definitely fits a gap in the market. I would strongly recommend publication.

Caroline Tagg, Birmingham University, UK was also very supportive: Overall, I think this is a competent and comprehensive coverage of the issues related to multilingualism online, which will prove very useful for students and for researchers wanting an introduction to the field.

She had a number of suggestions which Carmen has responded to well (see extras). All quite minor and uncontentious.

Vincent Ooi, National University of Singapore provided a rather unhelpful report in which he basically advised her to make the book more scholarly and ideally edited, which was not her brief and isnt the kind of book I wanted. Language Online is a successful model and I wanted something accessible and engaging on this topic which can be used across subjects.