Index of topics 259
consonants in texting, 230
Contact, 221
contact languages, 48
content, Internet/Web, 206–10, 231
censorship, 211
is free, 207
context in searching, 214
continuum, communicative, 30, 48
contracted forms, 122, 164, 185, 240
conventional media, 18
conversation, 125, 170, 239
informal, 58, 191
maxims, 48–61, 79, 98, 170
moderating, 72
monosyllabicity, 157
multi-partyseechatgroups
turns, 33–4, 145, 148
unpredictability, 146
conversion, 84, 182
co-operativeness (in language), 49–60, 184,
186
Copenhagen University, 173
copy (of an e-mail), 96–7, 109
copy-editing, 74, 76, 207
copyright, 44, 206–7, 235, 239
corpus of data, 73, 192
chatgroups, 131
e-mails, 94
Web, 208
correctness, 63, 228
pronunciation, 2
courtesy copyseecopy
crackers, 67, 69
creative writing, 232, 240
creativity, 2, 67, 75, 78, 170, 179, 240–2
cultural differences, 32, 55, 76, 101, 103,
106, 206, 222
cut-and-paste, 119–22, 203
cyber-, 83
cyberspace, 3, 60
cyberspeak, 17
Cyberspeak,66
Czech, 217
Daedalus Interchange, 234
Daily Express, 157
DALnet, 152
Danish, 217
dashes, 214
data services, 196
databases, 198, 223
date conventions, 76, 127
dead links, 202, 224
Dear(in e-mails), 101–2
delays in communication, 31–3, 100
deleted folder, 100, 127
deletion of text, 44
delivery systems, 225
descriptive approach, 63–5, 73
designseegraphic design
desk-top publishing, 46
diachronic character of the Web, 208–9
diacritics, 222, 240
Dialectizer, The, 79
dialectology, Internet, 60
dialects, 2, 6, 147, 207
command, 165
occupational, 60, 188
regional, 79
dialogue, 48, 112, 115, 125, 134, 148
dictionaries, 210, 219
jargon, 66–70
online, 212, 235
smiley, 36
texting, 230
Dictionary of the English language,A,64
digital
art, 240
cameras, 226
citizens, 6
Digital Freedom Network, 211
DikuMUDs, 173
direct speech, 157, 182, 185–7
directories in chatgroups, 136
disambiguation, 36–8
discourse
analysis, 33
community, 17
features, 8, 92, 143, 161–2, 180, 183, 197
stratagems, 183
structure, 94, 168, 239
type, 6
discussion groupsseechatgroups
dissemination of electronic texts, 48
domain names, 20, 87, 94
dot, 20, 83
dot com, 20, 22
downloading, 47
DragonMUCKs, 173
DTV, 228