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2b or not 2b?The Guardian, 5 July 200807.05.2008
A glossary of Netspeak and TextspeakEdinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004, 197 pp. 0 7486 2119 9; paperback 0 7486 1982 801.01.2004
A linguistic revolutionin Education, Communication and Information 1(2), 2001, 93-7; also in Newsletter, Scottish TESOL 21 (2), 2002, 5-8. (Adaptation of ABC radio talk, 2001) This version from a talk to CUP Mexico, in-house publication.01.01.2002
A linguistic revolution?Concorde 9, 2003, 6-7. [updating of TESOL paper]01.01.2003
Bridges between technology and tradition [in Romanian]In Cristina Cheveresan (ed.), Dialoguri in era E-reader (Institutul European, 2012), 223-48; Romanian translation, 103-2706.13.2012
Electronic EnglishChapter 12 of Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech, English: One Tongue, Many Voices, 2nd edn (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 224-23607.25.2016
Foreword to SMS Communication: A Linguistic ApproachLingvisticae Investigationes 35 (2), 2012, 153-404.25.2013
In defence of text messagingSpeak Up (Milano) 344, November 2013, 42-3 [transcription of audio recording]11.07.2013
Interlanguage on the InternetThe Hong Kong Linguist 19-20, 1999, 12-15. (Adaptation of 'Interpreting interlanguage', 1998.)01.01.1999
Internet languageIn Louise Cummings (ed.), The Pragmatics Encyclopedia (London: Routledge, 2010), 234-603.22.2010
Internet linguisticsLondon: Routledge, 2011, 179 pp. 9780415602686; (p/b) 9780415602716; Montenegrin translation, Dejvid Kristal Internetska Lingvistika (Podgorica, 2012), 205 pp. 978994057922703.01.2011
Internet punctuation'Ask a linguist', in Babel 15 (2016), 2905.20.2016
Interpreting interlanguagee magazine: the A-level English magazine, 1, September 1998, 27-809.01.1998
Johnson and the InternetHilda Hulme Memorial Lecture, University of London, 21 April 200504.21.2005
Johnson, the Dictionary, the Wiki, and the WebBBC Radio 3 The Essay, September 200909.01.2009
Keypad shorthand[original title: TXT, NE1?]. In e magazine 11, 2001, 26-711.01.2001
Language and the InternetCambridge: CUP, 2001, ix+272 pp. 0 521 80212 1; Spanish translation, 2002, El lenguaje e Internet (Madrid: CUP), 304 pp. 84 8323 256 1; 2nd edn (2006, shown here), ix + 316 pp. 052186859903.01.2001
Languages on the InternetTalk for Lingua Franca, March 2001, ABC03.07.2001
Learning global English: a parents' guidebook to accompany the series D-Mind and the Prince (Hong Kong: D-Mind Education Limited), 92 pp. 9789888662999; an introduction that brings together global English, the Internet, and child language acquisition.11.01.2020
O brave new world, that has such corpora in it! New trends and traditions on the Internetplenary paper to ICAME 32, 'Trends and Traditions in English Corpus Linguistics', Oslo, June 201106.01.2011
Oh what a tangled web we weaveScience and Spirit (November-December 2004), 34-511.01.2004
On myths and mindsetsLingua Montenegrina, God. V/2, Br.10, Podgorica 2012, 3-611.19.2012
Research profileWolfson College Magazine 32, 2008, 40-4105.06.2008
Revolutionary reflectionscontribution in 2004 to a teacher conference proceedings [no further details available]11.23.2004
Searchlinguisticsin the section 'Technology and Language', The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (Wiley, 2012); article writen 4 October 2009, published 4 November 201211.04.2012
Semantic targeting: past, present, and futureAslib Proceedings, 62 (4/5), 2010, 355-6506.01.2010
Signs of the timesThe Tablet. 30 September 2023, 32/09.30.2023
TextingELT Journal 62 (1), 2008, 77-8302.01.2008
The changing nature of text: a linguistic perspectivein Wido van Peursen, Ernst D Thoutenhoofd and Adriaan van der Weel (eds), Text comparison and digital creativity (Leiden: Brill, 2010), 229-5110.01.2010
The future of languageDVD of three lectures with subtitles and accompanying book of commentary (London: Routledge, 2009): The future of Englishes; Language death; Internet linguistics. 9780415484909.07.01.2009
The Internet: changing the languageIn Change: How Internet is Changing our Lives (Madrid: BBVA [Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria], OpenMind 2013), 330-5601.01.2013
The joy of textNew Statesman, Supplement on 'Our Mobile Future', 15 September 2003, 16-1709.15.2003
The joy of txtSpotlight, November 2008, 16-2111.01.2008
The past, present, and future of emojisBlog post for Cambridge University Pess 'World of better learning', 2 July 202107.02.2021
The scope of Internet linguisticsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, 18 February 2005; shortened version in The Western Mail, February02.18.2005
The unbelievable abbrevatronWritten for an ELT readership, publication name and date lost, possibly 2021, 5-9.01.01.2021
To surf or not to surf: that is the questionNetwork 1 (Poznan, Poland) , December 1998, 3-10, edited version of the Ben Bowen Thomas lecture (Arts Council of Wales), 21 November 1996 [scanned separately]12.01.1998
To surf or not to surf: that is the questionThe Ben Bowen Thomas lecture (Arts Council of Wales), 21 November 1996; published in Network 1, December 1998, 3-10 [scanned separately]11.21.1996
Twenty-first century EnglishKeynote speech to IATEFL Annual Conference, March 200103.01.2001
TXT NY1?In Susan Tresman and Ann Cooke (eds),The dyslexia handbook (Reading: British Dyslexia Association, 2006), 179-83 [expansion of New Statesman 2003 article]01.01.2006
Txting: the gr8 db8Oxford: OUP, 2008, ix + 239 pp. 9780199544905; (p/b) (2009) 9780199571338; Chinese translation (Taipei: Good Morning Press, 2010) 250 pp. 978986661318001.01.2008
Txtng: frNd or foe?The Threlford Memorial Lecture, The Linguist 47 (6), 2008, 8-1104.06.2008
ur a gd mn mr gum;-)The Zurich Magazine, Summer/Autumn 2010, 908.01.2010
Weaving a Web of linguistic diversityGuardian Weekly, 25 January 200101.25.2001
Who pays the piper calls the tune: changing linguistic goals in the service of industry. A case studyIn D Prys and B Williams (eds), Global Understanding in Multilingual, Multimodal and Multimedia Contexts (GUM3C) (Bangor: Language Technologies Unit), Conference at Bangor University, 22-23 August 2008, 39-4608.23.2008
Word for wordNew Media Age, 13 March 2008, 22-303.13.2008