special journal issue computer mediated discourse analysis content length 3158 call manuscripts electronic journal communication la revue electronique de communication special issue computer mediated discourse analysis guest editor susan herring one exciting recent developments discourse analysis availability data computermediated interactions take place internet usenet synchronous modes chat muds moos computer mediated interaction raises intriguing issues communicative medium shapes language use well providing large quantities authentic pretranscribed data used shed light existing problems linguistic analysis special issue first publication devoted exclusively linguistic analysis computermediated discourse application linguistic methodology computermediated data welcome manuscripts especially encouraged report pragmatic sociolinguistic interactional textual analyses focus issues methodology genre possible topics include limited use orthographic conventions including emoticons computer mediated language analysis turntaking topic nomination development reference cohesion discourse markers speech acts politeness etc computermediated discussions linguistic characterization cmc genres text types lexicogrammatical analysis cmc corpora negotiation meaning computermediated interaction use representation languages english code switching language contact computer networks gender differences computermediated interaction effects cmc 2nd language acquisition psycholinguistic processing computermediated messages etc journal ejc rec electronic journal adheres rigorous standards peer review original work published previously considered publication authors wishing submit manuscripts consideration prepare electronic format according ejc rec author guide available world wide web http trill berkeley edu guideto thelab resouces people cmc html request susan utafll uta edu manuscript length ideally 5000 7500 words although shorter longer manuscripts may also considered deadline deadline receipt manuscripts may 25 1995 e mail questions requests author guide susan utafll uta edu send regular mail fax susan herring editor special ejc rec issue computer mediated discourse analysis program linguistics university texas arlington tx 76019 usa fax 817 2732731