Pragmatics Of Computer-Mediated Communication

ISBN: 9783110214451 出版年：2013 页码：772 Herring, Susan Stein, Dieter Virtanen, Tuija De Gruyter Mouton

The present handbook provides a much-needed overview of the pragmatics of language and language use mediated by digital technologies. While the field of study is not yet large, a significant body of pragmatic literature, broadly defined, has accumulated over the past 20 years on computer-mediated communication (CMC), which is defined to include text-based interactive communication via the Internet, websites and other multimodal formats, and mobile communication. The handbook reflects the state of the art in a comprehensive and coherent way; it is internationally oriented; it is interdisciplinary; and it includes reliable orientational overviews useful not only to researchers but also to students and teachers. In addition to 'core' pragmatic and discourse-pragmatic phenomena as manifested in CMC, the chapters cover pragmatically-focused research on types of CMC and pragmatic approaches to characteristic CMC phenomena.