The Multilingual Internet Language, Culture,

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.

Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction: Welcome to the Multilingual Internet	p. 3
Writing Systems and the Internet
"A Funky Language for Teenzz to Use": Representing Gulf Arabic in Instant Messaging	p. 43
The Multilingual and Multiorthographic Taiwan-Based Internet: Creative Uses of Writing Systems on College-Affiliated BBSs	p. 64
Neography: Unconventional Spelling in French SMS Text Messages	p. 87
"It's All Greeklish to Me!" Linguistic and Sociocultural Perspectives on Roman-Alphabeted Greek in Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication	p. 116
Greeklish and Greekness: Trends and Discourses of "Glocalness"	p. 142
Linguistic and Discourse Features of Computer-Mediated Communication
Linguistic Innovations and Interactional Features in Japanese BBS Communication	p. 163
Linguistic Features of Email and ICQ Instant Messaging in Hong Kong	p. 184
Enhancing the Status of Catalan versus Spanish in Online Academic Forums: Obstacles to Machine Translation	p. 209
Gender and Culture
Gender and Turn Allocation in a Thai Chat Room	p. 233
Breaking Conversational Norms on a Portuguese Users' Network: Men as Adjudicators of Politeness?	p. 256
Kaomoji and Expressivity in a Japanese Housewives' Chat Room	p. 278
Language Choice and Code Switching
Language Choice Online: Globalization and Identity in Egypt	p. 303
Language Choice on a Swiss Mailing List	p. 319
Language Choice and Code Switching in German-Based Diasporic Web Forums	p. 340
Anyone Speak Swedish? Tolerance for Language Shifting in Graphical Multiuser Virtual Environments	p. 362
Broader Perspectives: Language Diversity
The European Union in Cyberspace: Democratic Participation via Online Multilingual Discussion Boards	p. 385
How Much Multilingualism? Language Diversity on the Internet	p. 408
Index	p. 431
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