1st Edition

Multilingualism Online

By Carmen Lee Copyright 2017
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

By the co-author of  Language Online , this book builds on the earlier work while focusing on multilingualism in the digital world. Drawing on a range of digital media – from email to chatrooms and social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube – Lee demonstrates how online multilingualism is closely linked to people's offline literacy practices and identities, and examines the ways in... Read more
 

Contents

List of Tables and Figures *

Acknowledgements *

Foreword to Multilingualism Online by Mark Sebba *

Chapter 1 Multilingualism Online: Background and Approach *

Chapter 2 Linguistic Diversity and Language Choice Online *

Chapter 3 Written Code-switching Online *

Chapter 4 Multilingual Practices and Identities Online *

Chapter 5 Representations of Multilingualism on the Internet *

Chapter 6 Minority Languages and the Internet *

Chapter 7 Online Translation as Multilingual Practices *

Chapter 8
Researching Multilingualism Online: Current Trends and Future Perspectives
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Epilogue to Multilingualism Online by Susan Herring

Appendix 1 *

Bibliography *

Biography

Carmen Lee

"A timely addition to the growing scholarship on language use in digital contexts. In this book, Lee elegantly weaves together topics ranging from linguistic diversity to code-switching to online translation. Written in a highly engaging style, Multilingualism Online is the first comprehensive work to engage with these topics since Danet & Herring´s The Multilingual Internet (2007); at the same time, Lee shows us just how much has changed over the last decade -- both in terms of technological affordances as well as in our digital practices." Camilla Vásquez, University of South Florida, USA