[Air-L] New Book: Multilingualism Online

[Carmen Lee]

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the publication of the following book:

Multilingualism Online, by Carmen Lee (Routledge, 2017)

By the co-author of Language Online, this book builds on the earlier work
while focusing on multilingualism in the digital world. Drawing on a range
of digital media – from email to chatrooms and social media such as
Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube – Lee demonstrates how online
multilingualism is　closely linked to people's offline literacy practices
and identities, and examines the ways in which　people draw on multilingual
resources in their internet participation. Bringing together central
concepts in sociolinguistics and internet linguistics, the eight chapters
cover key issues such as:

* language choice
* code-switching
* identities
* language ideologies
* minority languages
* online translation.　

Examples in the book are drawn from both all the major languages and many
lesser-written ones such as Chinese dialects, Egyptian Arabic, Irish, and
Welsh. A chapter on methodology provides practical information for
students and researchers interested in researching online multilingualism
from a mixed methods and practice-based approach.
Multilingualism Online is key reading for all students and researchers in
the area of multilingualism and new media, as well as those who want to
know more about languages in the digital world.

More details about this book can be found here:
https://www.routledge.com/Multilingualism-Online/Lee/p/book/9781138900493

Best wishes,
Carmen Lee

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Carmen K. M. LEE, PhD
Associate Professor,
Director, MA in Applied English Linguistics programme,
Department of English,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Tel: 39437994
Homepage: http://goo.gl/XfBc2k
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