The Multilingual Internet
Language, Culture, and Communication Online
1st Edition
Published on 4. June 2007
460 pages
978-0-19-971949-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
OUP eBook
Target group
Academic/professional/technical: Undergraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Postgraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Research and professional
File size
4,26 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-19-971949-5 (9780199719495)
Schweitzer Classification
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The Multilingual Internet
Language, Culture, and Communication Online
Book
06/2007
Oxford University Press Inc
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The Multilingual Internet
Language, Culture, and Communication Online
Book
06/2007
Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Welcome to the Multilingual Internet
- Part I: Writing Systems and the Internet
- 2 "A Funky Language for Teenzz to Use": Representing Gulf Arabic in Instant Messaging
- 3 The Multilingual and Multiorthographic Taiwan-Based Internet: Creative Uses of Writing Systems on College-Affiliated BBSs
- 4 Neography: Unconventional Spelling in French SMS Text Messages
- 5 "It's All Greeklish to Me!" Linguistic and Sociocultural Perspectives on Roman-Alphabeted Greek in Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication
- 6 Greeklish and Greekness: Trends and Discourses of "Glocalness"
- Part II: Linguistic and Discourse Features of Computer-Mediated Communication
- 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: Obstacles to Machine Translation
- Part III: Gender and Culture
- 10 Gender and Turn Allocation in a Thai Chat Room
- 11 Breaking Conversational Norms on a Portuguese Users' Network: Men as Adjudicators of Politeness?
- 12 Kaomoji and Expressivity in a Japanese Housewives' Chat Room
- Part IV: Language Choice and Code Switching
- 13 Language Choice Online: Globalization and Identity in Egypt
- 14 Language Choice on a Swiss Mailing List
- 15 Language Choice and Code Switching in German-Based Diasporic Web Forums
- 16 Anyone Speak Swedish? Tolerance for Language Shifting in Graphical Multiuser Virtual Environments
- Part V: Broader Perspectives: Language Diversity
- 17 The European Union in Cyberspace: Democratic Participation via Online Multilingual Discussion Boards
- 18 How Much Multilingualism? Language Diversity on the Internet
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
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