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We are pleased to announce the publication of:<br><br>
Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring, Eds. (2003, November). The <br>
Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture and Communication in <br>
Instant Messaging, Email and Chat. Special issue, Journal of <br>
Computer-Mediated Communication, volume 9, issue 1. Several <br>
papers deal among other things with forms of playfulness
online.<br><br>
Table of Contents:<br><br>
Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring <br>
"Introduction: The Multilingual
Internet"<br><br>
David Palfreyman and Muhamed Al-Khalil <br>
"'A Funky Language for Teenzz to Use:' Representing
Gulf <br>
Arabic in Instant Messaging"<br><br>
Yukiko Nishimura <br>
"Linguistic Innovations and Interactional Features of
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Casual Online Communication in Japanese"<br><br>
Hsi-Yao Su <br>
"The Multilingual and Multi-orthographic Taiwan-based
<br>
Internet: Creative Uses of Writing Systems on College-
<br>
affiliated BBSs"<br><br>
Dimitris Koutsogiannis and Bessie Mitsikopoulou <br>
"Greeklish and Greekness: Trends and Discourses of
<br>
'Glocalness'"<br><br>
Mercedes Durham <br>
"Language Choice on a Swiss Mailing
List"<br><br>
Salvador Climent, Joaquim More, Antoni Oliver, Miriam Salvatierra, <br>
Imma Sanchez, Mariona Taule and Lluisa Vallmanya <br>
"Bilingual Newsgroups in Catalonia: A Challenge for
<br>
Machine Translation"<br><br>
Sandi Michele de Oliveira <br>
"Breaking Conversational Norms on a Portuguese Users
<br>
Network: Men as Adjudicators of Politeness?"<br><br>
Siriporn Panyametheekul and Susan C. Herring <br>
"Gender and Turn Allocation in a Thai Chat
Room"<br>
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To access the issue, go to
<a href="http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol9/issue1/" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol9/issue1/</a></u></font>.<br><br>
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