Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 A linguistic perspective -- Internet situations -- Electronic mail (e-mail ) -- Chatgroups -- Virtual worlds -- World Wide Web (WWW ) -- Netspeak -- 2 The medium of Netspeak -- Speech or writing? -- Netspeak maxims -- 3 Finding an identity -- Making the rules explicit -- Some features of Netspeak -- 4 The language of e-mail -- Structural elements -- Headers -- Greetings and farewells -- The body of the message -- The uniqueness of e-mail -- 5 The language of chatgroups -- Asynchronous groups -- Synchronous groups -- Why chat? -- 6 The language of virtual worlds -- An evolving world -- 7 The language of the Web -- Hypertext and interactivity -- Evolution and management -- Languages on the Web -- 8 The linguistic future of the Internet -- Applied Internet linguistics -- Increasing the richness of language -- References -- Index of authors.