00903pamaa2200217 4500 0000043245 20140428090000.0 080130 eng 9780521868594 P98.5.I57 CRY 2006 Crystal Language and the internet David Crystal. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xi, 304 p.: Ill.; 22 cm. linguistic perspective -- The medium of netspeak -- Finding an identity -- The language of e-mail --The language of chatgroups -- The language of virtual worlds-- The language of the web -- New varieties -- The linguistic future of the internet FOLA Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and indexes Internet Computational linguistics http://www.cambridge.org