Recent research from the sociolinguistic perspective has considered CS in an array of online genres: e.g., English-Jamaican Creole in email (Hinrichs, 2006), Malay-English language in online discussion forums (McLellan, 2005), English-Spanish bilingual blogging (Montes-Alcalá, 2007), and English-Chinese instant messaging (Lam, 2009).
these studies have analyzed productions of a small number of authors (even a single person), and each is restricted to a single language-pair.