Language and the Internet

The linguistic future of the Internet 229 some 8 billion messages sent worldwide in August 2000, 15 billion in December, and a s ...

230 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET opposed to vowels, judging by such vowel-less items asTXT[‘text’] andXLNT[‘excellent’]. The proces ...

The linguistic future of the Internet 231 technology? Great claims have been made for its use in accessing e- mail,bookingticket ...

232 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET The various language professions have begun to take strides of varying length, with respect to the ...

The linguistic future of the Internet 233 doubt that the Internet... will eventually transform the way that the teaching and lea ...

234 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET The use of e-mail in this way certainly puts traditional methods of contact in the shade. I recall ...

The linguistic future of the Internet 235 and an excellent medium for promoting rapid responses, but their utterances represent ...

236 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Conventional CALL was difficult enough for many teachers. The Web, for all its advantages, can be ...

The linguistic future of the Internet 237 presents a problem to those who have not yet developed a confident command of the rule ...

238 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET of this book, a range of intriguingly new and still evolving linguistic varieties, characterized b ...

The linguistic future of the Internet 239 developmentofmillennialsignificance.Anewmediumoflinguistic communicationdoesnotarrivev ...

240 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET using the Web, such as by publishing work there in instalments, collaborating in creative writing, ...

The linguistic future of the Internet 241 find none already written. It has proved to be an exploratory, pro- grammatic work, in ...

242 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET diversity and creativity. There is no indication, in any of the areas I have examined, of Netspeak ...

References URLs here and in the footnotes werecorrect at the time of going to press (February 2001), but are subject to change. ...

244 References Bechar-Israeli, Haya. 1996. From to: nicknames, play, and identity on Internet Relay Chat.Journal of Computer-Me ...

References 245 Condron, Frances. 2000a. Starting points on the Internet. In Condron, Fraser, and Sutherland (eds.), 13–18. 2000b ...

246 References Philosophical perspectives on computer-mediated communication (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press), 6 ...

References 247 Gilder, George. 2000.Telecosm: how infinite bandwidth will revolutionize our world.New York: Free Press. Giles, H ...

248 References Johansson, Stig. 1991. Times change, and so do corpora. In Aijmer and Altenberg (eds.), 305–14. Keegan, Martin. 1 ...