This book provides a variety of chapters on discourse behavior in digital communication, including computer-mediated communication as well as aspects of behavior typically associated with online discourse like cyberbullying.
Front Cover.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Editorial Advisory Board.
List of Reviewers.
List of Contributors.
Table of Contents.
Detailed Table of Contents.
Foreword.
Preface.
Acknowledgment.
1: Discursive Behavior and Social Interaction.
2: Discursive Practices and Creation of Identity Using the Mobile Phone.
3: Status and Email Construction in Three Hong Kong Workplaces.
4: “Pathfinding” Discourses of Self in Social Network Sites.
5: Social Interaction Process Analysis of Bengalis' on Orkut®.
6: Membership and Activity in an Online Parenting Community.
7: The Sociolinguistics of SMS Ways to Identify Gender Boundaries.
8: Discursive Practice and the Nigerian Identity in Personal Emails.
9: Constructing a Diaspora Anglophone Cameroonian Identity Online.
10: Multimodal Communication and Meta-Modal Discourse.
11: ‘Masculine Normal Guy Here’: Lonely Hearts and ‘Normal’ Gays in Cyberspace.
12: The Dynamics of Language Mixing in Nigerian Digital Communication.
13: Intertextuality and Constructing Islamic Identities Online.
14: Gender Consciousness in Computer-Mediated Discourse in Nigeria.
15: Communication in Construction Design Teams: Moving into the Virtual World.
16: Linguistic Forms and Structure.
17: Humor and Play in CMC.
18: SMS Texting Practices and Communicative Intention.
19: Chat Discourse.
20: First Person Pronouns in Online Diary Writing.
21: A Digital Forensic Analysis of Advance Fee Fraud (419 Scams).
22: Online Orthographies.
23: Analyzing the Discourse of E-Mail Communication.
24: Spelling Practices in Text Messaging.
25: Hyperjournalism for the Hyperreader.
26: Thematic Organization and the Analysis of Selected Online Academic Scientific Journals' Sites.
27: Semantics and Pragmatics.
28: Gender and Politeness in Indian Emails.
29: Users' Relevance on the Web.
30: Inferences in Discourse Comprehension of E-Mails.