Ciara R. Wigham & Egon W. Stemle – Preface

Section 1: CMC Corpus Repurposing

Aivars Glaznieks & Alexander Glück – From the Valleys to the World Wide Web: Non-standard Spellings on Social Network Sites;

Carmen Frey, Egon W. Stemle & A. Seza Doğruöz – Comparison of Automatic vs. Manual Language Identification in Multilingual Social Media Texts.

Section 2: Language Representation in CMC Corpora

Steven Coats – Online Language Ecology: Twitter in Europe;

Areej Alshutayri & Eric Atwell – A Social Media Corpus of Arabic Dialect Text.

Section 3: CMC Language Use

Stefania Spina – Emoticons as Multifunctional and Pragmatic Resources: A Corpus-based Study on Twitter;

Laura Herzberg & Angelika Storrer – Investigating OKAY across Genres, Modes and Languages: A Corpus-based Study on German and French;

Damjan Popič, Darja Fišer & Teja Kavčič – Attitudes towards Language in Slovenian Twitterese.

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