Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication

✍ Scribed by Susan Herring; Dieter Stein; Tuija Virtanen

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 762
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. Reduced series price (print) available! > For orders, please contact [email protected].

✦ Table of Contents

Preface to the handbook series . . . ..................... v
Preface to this handbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
1. Introduction to the pragmatics of computer-mediated communication
Susan C. Herring, Dieter Stein, and Tuija Virtanen .......... 3
I. Pragmatics of computer-mediated modes
2. Email communication
Christa Dürscheid and Carmen Frehner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
3. Mailing list communication
Helmut Gruber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4. Blogging
Cornelius Puschmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
5. Real-time chat
John C. Paolillo and Asta Zelenkauskaite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
6. Instant messaging
Naomi S. Baron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
7. Text messaging
Crispin Thurlow and Michele Poff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
8. Mobile phone communication
Rich Ling and Naomi S. Baron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
9. Synchronous voice-based computer-mediated
communication
Christopher Jenks and Alan Firth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
II. Classic pragmatic phenomena in computer-mediated
communication
10. Relevance in computer-mediated conversation
Susan C. Herring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
11. Performativity in computer-mediated communication
Tuija Virtanen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
12. Address in computer-mediated communication
Sandi Michele de Oliveira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
13. Apologies in email discussions
Sandra Harrison and Diane Allton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
14. Internet advice
Miriam A. Locher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
15. Deception in computer-mediated communication
Jeffrey Hancock and Amy Gonzalez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
III. Pragmatics of computer-mediated communication phenomena
16. Email hoaxes
Theresa Heyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
17. Authentication and Nigerian Letters
Martin Gill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
18. The maxims of online nicknames
Loukia Lindholm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
19. Micro-linguistic structural features of computer-mediated
communication
Markus Bieswanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
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IV. Discourse pragmatics of computer-mediated interaction
20. Rhythm and timing in chat room interaction
Rodney Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
21. Conversational floor in computer-mediated discourse
James Simpson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
22. Conversational coherence in small group chat
Kris M. Markman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
23. Repair in chat room interaction
Jennifer Baker Jacobs and Angela Cora Garcia . . . . . . . . . . . 565
24. Responses and non-responses in workplace emails
Karianne Skovholt and Jan Svennevig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
25. Small talk, politeness, and email communication in the workplace
Amelie Hössjer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
26. Flaming and linguistic impoliteness on a listserv
Brenda Danet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
V. Broader perspectives
27. Code-switching in computer-mediated communication
Jannis Androutsopoulos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
28. Narrative analysis and computer-mediated communication
Alexandra Georgakopoulou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695
29. Genre and computer-mediated communication
Janet Giltrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717
About the authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739
Subject index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747