We are pleased to announce the publication of: Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring, Eds. (2003, November). The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture and Communication in Instant Messaging, Email and Chat. Special issue, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, volume 9, issue 1. Table of Contents: Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring `"Introduction: The Multilingual Internet" David Palfreyman and Muhamed Al-Khalil "'A Funky Language for Teenzz to Use:' Representing Gulf Arabic in Instant Messaging" Yukiko Nishimura "Linguistic Innovations and Interactional Features of Casual Online Communication in Japanese" Hsi-Yao Su "The Multilingual and Multi-orthographic Taiwan-based Internet: Creative Uses of Writing Systems on College- affiliated BBSs" Dimitris Koutsogiannis and Bessie Mitsikopoulou "Greeklish and Greekness: Trends and Discourses of 'Glocalness'" Mercedes Durham "Language Choice on a Swiss Mailing List" Salvador Climent, Joaquim More, Antoni Oliver, Miriam Salvatierra, Imma Sanchez, Mariona Taule and Lluisa Vallmanya "Bilingual Newsgroups in Catalonia: A Challenge for Machine Translation" Sandi Michele de Oliveira "Breaking Conversational Norms on a Portuguese Users Network: Men as Adjudicators of Politeness?" Siriporn Panyametheekul and Susan C. Herring "Gender and Turn Allocation in a Thai Chat Room" ------------- The issue can be accessed at no cost at: http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol9/issue1/ ============================================ Susan C. Herring Professor of Information Science Adjunct Professor of Linguistics Indiana University Bloomington Email: herring@indiana.edu http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/herring/ ============================================