PANEL 1: The Multilingual Internet
Panel Chairs: Susan Herring
and Brenda Danet
Expanding on their collective work, including a special issue of the Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication, this panel invites papers with a specific focus on how the Internet impacts language choice and
linguistic practices in traditionally non-English speaking cultural contexts. Of particular interest are situations that respond in
various ways to the tension between global English dominance and local linguistic diversity, e.g., through use of English as an
online lingua franca, the "localization" of global or regional linguistic influences, translation or code-switching between different languages, and strategic uses of the Internet to maintain and invigorate minority languages.
Professor Susan
Herring, Information Science and Linguistics,
Indiana University Bloomington
Professor Brenda Danet, Sociology & Communication, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem (Emerita); Anthropology, Yale University
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