The last decade of the twentieth century ushered in the age of the Internet. Advances in
computing technologies along with the popularization of personal computers (PCs) since …

In Western societies, speaking is construed as an interactive social activity while writing is
widely perceived as a solo or private endeavor. Such a functional dichotomy did not apply to …

For well over a millennium until the early twentieth century, Sinitic brush-talk 漢文筆談 was a
salient lingua-cultural communication pattern in Sinographic East Asia 漢字文化圈, which is …

For hundreds of years until the 1900s, in today's China, Japan, North and South Korea, and
Vietnam, literati of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic (wényán 文言) could communicate in …

Brush conversation, also called 'silent conversation', involved two or more brushtalkers who
were literate in Sinitic, typically in cross-border contexts where speech was not an option …

Hitsudan 筆談, literally “brush talk,” refers to a common premodern means of communication,
predominantly practiced by the literati of the East Asian region, constituting a live “written …

Abstract Drawing on Chinese-Japanese transnational and transcultural interaction in the
mid-nineteenth century, this article illustrates how Sinitic brushtalk functioned as an effective …

Abstract Literary Sinitic (written Chinese, hereafter Sinitic) functioned as a 'scripta franca'in
sinographic East Asia, which broadly comprises China, Japan, South Korea and North …

This two-part special issue of Language@ Internet is devoted to the theme of “Computer-
Mediated Conversation,” with a focus on textual exchanges carried out via email, instant …

Increasingly, forms of computer-mediated communication are emerging that enable"
conversations” to take place in real time through the medium of written language …