The Multilingual Internet
豆瓣
Language, Culture, and Communication Online
Danet, Brenda (edt)/ Herring, Susan C. (edt)
简介
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.
contents
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