Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Welcome to the multilingual Internet / Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring -- "A funky language for teenzz to use" : representing Gulf Arabic in instant messaging / David Palfreyman and Muhamed Al Khalil -- The multilingual and multiorthographic Taiwan-based Internet : creative uses of writing systems on college-affiliated BBSs / Hsi-Yao Su -- Neography : unconventional spelling in French SMS text messages / Jacques Anis -- "It's all Greeklish to me!" Linguistic and sociocultural perspectives on Roman-alphabeted Greek in asynchronous computer-mediated communication / Theodora Tseliga and Bessie Mitsikopoulou -- Linguistic innovations and interactional features in Japanese BBS communication / Yukiko Nishimura -- Linguistic features of email and ICQ instant messaging in Hong Kong / Carmen K.M. Lee -- Enhancing the status of Catalan versus Spanish in online academic forums : obstacles to machine translation / Salvador Climent ... [et al.] -- Gender and turn allocation in a Thai chat room / Siriporn Panyametheekul and Susan C. Herring -- Breaking conversational norms on a Portuguese users' network : men as adjudicators of politeness? / Sandi Michele de Oliveira -- Kaomoji and expressivity in a Japanese housewives' chat room / Hirofumi Katsuno and Christine Yano -- Language choice online : globalization and identity in Egypt / Mark Warschauer, Ghada R. El Said, and Ayman Zohry -- Language choice on a Swiss mailing list / Mercedes Durham -- Language choice and code switching in German-based diasporic web forums / Jannis Androutsopoulos -- Anyone speak Swedish? Tolerance for language shifting in graphical multiuser virutal environments / Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Åsa Abelin, and Ralph Schroeder -- The European Union in cyberspace : democratic participation via online multilingual discussion boards / Ruth Wodak and Scott Wright -- How much multilingualism? Language diversity on the Internet / John C. Paolillo.