Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication

✍ Scribed by Susan Herring (editor); Dieter Stein (editor); Tuija Virtanen (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 772
• Series: Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]; 9
• 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.

• the handbook reflects the state of the art in a comprehensive and coherent way
• it is internationally oriented and interdisciplinary
• it includes reliable orientational overviews useful not only to researchers but also to students and teachers in more than 20 extensive articles
• provides a valuable subject index
  

✦ Table of Contents

Preface to the handbook series
Preface to this handbook
1. Introduction to the pragmatics of computer-mediated communication
I. Pragmatics of computer-mediated modes
2. Email communication
3. Mailing list communication
4. Blogging
5. Real-time chat
6. Instant messaging
7. Text messaging
8. Mobile phone communication
9. Synchronous voice-based computer-mediated communication
II. Classic pragmatic phenomena in computer-mediated communication
10. Relevance in computer-mediated conversation
11. Performativity in computer-mediated communication
12. Address in computer-mediated communication
13. Apologies in email discussions
14. Internet advice
15. Deception in computer-mediated communication
III. Pragmatics of computer-mediated communication phenomena
16. Email hoaxes
17. Authentication and Nigerian Letters
18. The maxims of online nicknames
19. Micro-linguistic structural features of computer-mediated communication
IV. Discourse pragmatics of computer-mediated interaction
20. Rhythm and timing in chat room interaction
21. Conversational floor in computer-mediated discourse
22. Conversational coherence in small group chat
23. Repair in chat room interaction
24. Responses and non-responses in workplace emails
25. Small talk, politeness, and email communication in the workplace
26. Flaming and linguistic impoliteness on a listserv
V. Broader perspectives
27. Code-switching in computer-mediated communication
28. Narrative analysis and computer-mediated communication
29. Genre and computer-mediated communication
About the authors
Subject index