Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication

The present handbook provides an overview of the pragmatics of language and language use mediated by digital technologies. Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is defined to include text-based interactive communication via the Internet, websites and other multimodal formats, and mobile communication. In addition to 'core' pragmatic and discourse-pragmatic phenomena the chapters cover pragmatically-focused research on types of CMC and pragmatic approaches to characteristic CMC phenomena.

About the author

Susan C. Herring, Indiana University, USA; Dieter Stein, University of Düsseldorf, Germany; Tuija Virtanen, Abo Akademi University, Finnland.

Report

" On the whole, the volume offers a broad and interesting sample of CMC research and would be of interest to advanced students and researchers alike."
Daria Dayter in: Linguist List 24.2982

Product details

• Assisted by: Susan Herring (Editor), Diete Stein (Editor), Dieter Stein (Editor), Tuija Virtanen (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9783110214451
• ISBN: 978-3-11-021445-1
• No. of pages: 758
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 45 mm x 265 mm
• Weight: 1400 g
• Illustrations: 26 b/w tbl., 1 b/w img., 12 b/w ld
• Series: Handbooks of Pragmatics; Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]; Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]; Handbooks of Pragmatics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics