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Internet
- Cover (Page 1) - Half-title (Page 3) - Title (Page 5) - Copyright (Page 6) - Contents (Page 7) - Preface (Page 9) - 1 A linguistic perspective (Page 13) - Internet situations (Page 18) - Electronic mail (e-mail ) (Page 22) - Chatgroups (Page 23) - Virtual worlds (Page 24) - World Wide Web (WWW ) (Page 25) - Netspeak (Page 29) - 2 The medium of Netspeak (Page 36) - Speech or writing? (Page 40) - Netspeak maxims (Page 60) - 3 Finding an identity (Page 74) - Making the rules explicit (Page 82) - Some features of Netspeak (Page 93) - 4 The language of e-mail (Page 106) - Structural elements (Page 107) - Headers (Page 107) - Greetings and farewells (Page 111) - The body of the message (Page 119) - The uniqueness of e-mail (Page 137) - 5 The language of chatgroups (Page 141) - Asynchronous groups (Page 142) - Synchronous groups (Page 163) - Why chat? (Page 179) - 6 The language of virtual worlds (Page 183) - An evolving world (Page 202) - 7 The language of the Web (Page 207) - Hypertext and interactivity (Page 214) - Evolution and management (Page 216) - Languages on the Web (Page 228) - 8 The linguistic future of the Internet (Page 236) - Applied Internet linguistics (Page 243) - Increasing the richness of language (Page 249) - References (Page 255) - Index of authors (Page 265)