Language and the Internet

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Table of contents

- 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)