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In:Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives
Edited by Susan C. Herring
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 39] 1996
► pp. v–vi

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Table of contents

Forewordvii

Introduction1

I. Linguistic Perspectives

Electronic Language: A new variety of English13

Oral and written linguistic aspects of computer conferencing29

Simeon J. Yates

Linguistic and interactional features of Internet Relay Chat47

Christopher C. Werry

Functional comparisons of face-to-face and computer-mediated decision making interactions65

Sherri L. Condon

Two variants of an electronic message schema81

Susan C. Herring

II. Social and Ethical Perspectives

Managing the virtual commons: Cooperation and conflict in computer communities109

Our passionate response to virtual reality129

Cyberfeminism147

III. Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Computer-mediated conversations as a new dimension of intercultural communication between East Asian and North American college students173

Perceptions of American culture: The impact of an electronically-mediated cultural exchange program on Mexican high school students187

Mary Elaine Meagher

Fernando Castanos

Visible conversation and academic inquiry: CMC in a culturally diverse classroom203

Gregory G. Golomb

Joyce A. Simutis

IV. CMC and group Interaction

Group dynamics in an e-mail forum225

Writing to work: How using e-mail can reflect technological and organizational change243

The rhetorical dynamics of a community protest in cyberspace: What happened with Lotus Marketplace265

References279

Index of names309

Index of subjects313