[Indic-computing-users] The Multilingual Internet (fwd)

[Frederick N. <fr...@by...>]

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Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:55:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: Susan Herring <su...@li...>
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Call For Papers: THE MULTILINGUAL INTERNET: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND
COMMUNICATION IN INSTANT MESSAGING, EMAIL AND CHAT

Co-editors:

Brenda Danet                            Susan Herring
Hebrew University of Jerusalem          Indiana University
and Yale University                     Bloomington
bre...@ya...                   he...@in...

      In today's multilingual, global world, hundreds of millions of
people are communicating on the Internet not only in its established
lingua franca, English, but also in many other languages. To date, the
research literature in English on the features of computer-mediated
communication has focused almost exclusively on emergent practices in
English, neglecting developments within populations communicating online
in other languages. This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of the
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, a peer-reviewed online
journal. We may also edit a follow-up book on the same theme, containing a
wider selection of papers, with a major publisher.

Papers may relate to instant messaging, private email, postings to
listserv lists and newsgroups, text-only chat, e.g., on IRC or MOOs,
visually enhanced chat, or SMS (short message service) in mobile phone
use.

We invite papers on topics such as:

--The influence of the local language on the use of a medium, e.g., the
distinctive features of email or chat in languages with specific
font-related requirements (e.g., French, Russian, Hindi, Arabic, Korean,
Chinese).

--Cultural constraints on the use of the medium, e.g., how traditional
requirements for deference in Japanese language and culture are realized
or modified in online communication; Italian non-verbal and verbal
expressivity as realized in typed chat.

--Comparison of the distinctive features of email or chat in two or more
language-culture groups or sub-groups with differing cultural
orientations, e.g., Austrian German versus German German.

--Chat in situations of diglossia--differentiation between spoken and
written languages and dialects (e.g., Moroccan spoken Arabic and how it is
being realized in typed chat).

--Code-switching in bilingual or multilingual online communication.

--The clash between requirements of formality in the letter-writing
tradition in a given language-culture constellation and the trend toward
speech-like patterns in online textual communication.

--Language and play with culture, including play with identity (e.g., via
nicknames).

--A comparison of online communication within the same language- culture
group but in different languages, e.g., Israeli chat in English versus
Hebrew.

--The effects of the English language or global "netspeak" (Crystal, 2001)
on email and chat in the local language.

--Online communication in English by non-native speakers, focusing
on language and culture issues.

Submission procedures:

Potential authors should submit a preliminary proposal of 500-1000 words
by November 30, 2002 (earlier submissions are encouraged). The proposal
should describe the research question, the data and methods of analysis,
preliminary findings/observations and their broader significance, and
should include selected references. The proposal should also include a
tentative paper title.

Authors whose proposals are accepted for inclusion will be invited to
submit a full paper of roughly 7,000-10,000 words by April 15, 2003. Since
JCMC is an interdisciplinary journal, authors should plan for papers that
will be accessible to non-specialists. If you have a potentially suitable
paper that is already published or slated for publication elsewhere, we
would also like to hear from you, as it might be possible to republish
high quality articles in the follow-up book.

Questions? Proposal ideas? Please address all correspondence
electronically to both co-editors: Brenda Danet (bre...@ya...)
and Susan Herring (he...@in...).

A Web version of this Call for Papers is available at:
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/cfpmultilingual.html
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