Introduction

The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication Online

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Danet, Brenda ^a,b   Herring, Susan C ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMC modes; CMC specific features; Code switching; Culture; Gender; Language choice; Lingua franca; Linguistic diversity; Playfulness; Writing systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195304794.003.0001     Document Type: Editorial

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