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Intro
Approaches to Internet Pragmatics
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Approaching internet pragmatics
1. The place of the internet
2. Defining internet pragmatics
3. The scope of internet pragmatics
4. Exploring internet pragmatics
5. An overview of the volume
References
Part I. Theoretical and methodological perspectives
1. Expanding pragmatics: Values, goals, ranking, and internet adaptability
1. Introduction
2. Extending or expanding
3. A man and his cat: Value and behavior
4. Goals and values
5. Values in society
6. The 'honor' problem
7. Truth and value in science
8. The pragmatics of value
9. Value-laden conflict: The participant observer
10. 'Are they biting?': Values and pragmemes
11. User values in the cyber world
12. Conclusion: Adaptability vs. adaptivity
References
2. Computer-mediated discourse in context: Pluralism of communicative action and discourse common ground
1. Introduction
2. Context, contextualisation and indexicality of communicative action
2.1 Context and contexts, and types and tokens
2.2 Contextualisation cues and contextualisation
2.3 Indexicality of communicative action
3. Pluralism of communicative action
3.1 Multilayered participation
3.2 Discourse common ground
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
3. Cyberpragmatics in the age of locative media
1. Introduction
2. The setting
3. Cyberpragmatics
4. Communicating through locative media
4.1 Contextual constraints in communication through locative media
4.2 The user's (intended) manifestness upon using locative media
4.3 Mutual manifestness through locative media
4.4 The relevance of inferred information out of locative media.
4.5 Non-propositional effects meant or leaked from the use of locative media
a. Impact on the user's self-concept and identity
b. Sense of community and group membership
c. Feeling of being connected, of co-presence
d. Personal feelings associated with place
5. An example: Cyberpragmatics of 'Facebook' check-ins
6. Concluding remarks
Funding
References
4. Interpreting emoji pragmatics
1. Introduction
2. Background literature
2.1 Emoji as language
2.2 Emoji semantics
2.3 Explanations for semantic ambiguity
2.4 Emoji pragmatics
3. Research questions
4. Methods
4.1 Survey design
4.1.1 Survey items and discourse context
4.1.2 Emoji types
4.1.3 Pragmatic functions
4.1.4 Multiple-part items
4.1.5 Pilot study
4.1.6 Final survey structure
4.2 Distribution
4.3 Quantitative measures
5. Findings
5.1 Respondent demographics
5.2 Respondents' social media usage
5.3 Respondents' interpretations of pragmatic functions
5.3.1 Overall
5.3.2 Individual items
5.4 Agreement
5.6 Open-ended responses
6. Discussion
6.1 Research questions revisited
6.2 Emoji ambiguity: Pros and cons
6.3 The role of discourse context
6.4 The status of emoji as a language
7. Conclusions
References
5. Speech acts and the dissemination of knowledge in social networks
1. Introduction
2. Social networks and speech acts
3. An Austin-based speech act theoretical framework
4. Illocutionary act types and their contributions to the dissemination of knowledge
4.1 Verdictives
4.2 Exercitives
4.3 Commissives
4.4 Behabitives
5. Concluding remarks
Authorship statement
Funding
References
Part II. The discursive management of self on the internet
6. Humour and self-presentation on 'WhatsApp' profile status
1. Introduction.
2. Literature review
2.1 Humour
2.2 Humour and digital communication
2.3 'WhatsApp' and its statuses
3. Methodology
4. Data analysis
4.1 Types and frequency of 'WhatsApp' statuses according to realization
4.2 Types and frequency of 'WhatsApp' statuses according to content
4.3 Humorous statuses
4.3.1 Intertextuality
4.4 Humorous statuses, gender and age
5. Conclusions
References
7. Inviting a purchase: A multimodal analysis of staged authenticity in WeChat social selling
1. Introduction
2. Research background
2.1 Social selling in WeChat
2.2 Theoretical perspective
2.2.1 Dramaturgical theory, frame and footing
2.2.2 Staged authenticity in digital narratives
3. Data and methods
4. Discussion
4.1 The narration in WeChat social selling
4.2 The influencers in WeChat social selling
4.2.1 Case study 1: The influencer in WeChat Moments
4.2.2 Case study 2: The influencer in WeChat group chat
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
8. Online nicks, impoliteness, and Jewish identity in Israeli Russian conflict discourse
1. Introduction
2. Theorizing nicks, identity, and personal names in a migrant community
3. Methodology
4. Data and analysis
4.1 Thread: Zeev
4.2 Translating the Hebrew nick into Russian
4.3 Russian versus Hebrew names
5. Discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Part III. Pragmatics of internet-mediated texts
9. Candidates' use of Twitter during the 2016 Austrian presidential campaign
1. Introduction
2. The use of ICTs in political communication
3. Methodological approach
4. The 2016 Austrian presidential campaign: Details and data
5. Results
6. Discussion and conclusions
References.
10. A study on how cultural and gender parameters affect emoticon distribution, usage and frequency in American and Japanese online discourse
1. Introduction
2. A review of the emoticon literature: Function, gender and cultural factors
3. Data
3.1 Gender clarification
4. Emoticons analyzed
5. Methods of emoticon classification
5.1 Emoticons as propositional markers
Emoticons as iconic/emotion strengtheners
Emoticons that enhance verbal linguistic content
Emoticons as lexical replacements
5.2 Emoticons as politeness-affiliated speech act markers
Emoticons that act as PIU's
Emoticons that act as negative impact downgraders (NID)
Supplementary UMC's
6. Results
6.1 Japanese emoticon frequency
6.2 American emoticon frequency
6.3 Cross-cultural emoticon frequency
6.4 Functions: Emoticons as propositional markers
Japanese female examples (Emoticons as iconic/emotion strengtheners)
Japanese male examples (emoticons as iconic/emotional strengtheners)
American female examples (emoticons as iconic/emotion strengtheners)
American male example (emoticons as iconic/emotion strengtheners)
Japanese female example (emoticons as lexical replacements/enhancers of verbal linguistic content)
Japanese male example (emoticon as lexical replacement/enhancer of verbal linguistic content)
American female example (emoticon as lexical replacement/enhancer of verbal linguistic content)
American male examples (emoticons that enhance verbal linguistic content)
7. Politeness-affiliated data
Politeness-affiliated data: Japanese female example (comments opening and solidarity markers)
Japanese male examples (comment openings and closings)
American male example (comments opening and closing)
Japanese male examples (markers of solidarity).
American female examples (markers of solidarity and compliments)
American male examples (solidarity markers and compliments)
Japanese female examples (expressing gratitude)
American female examples (expressing gratitude)
American male examples (expressing thanks)
8. Interplay and relationship between emoticons and other UMC's
9. Discussion
10. Conclusion
References
11. Migration through the English-Greek translated press
1. The circumstances, re/mediation, translation and politics
2. The migration experience
3. Mediating migration in translated press
4. On global conflict, online communication and translation
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Name index
Subject index.
Approaches to Internet Pragmatics
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Approaching internet pragmatics
1. The place of the internet
2. Defining internet pragmatics
3. The scope of internet pragmatics
4. Exploring internet pragmatics
5. An overview of the volume
References
Part I. Theoretical and methodological perspectives
1. Expanding pragmatics: Values, goals, ranking, and internet adaptability
1. Introduction
2. Extending or expanding
3. A man and his cat: Value and behavior
4. Goals and values
5. Values in society
6. The 'honor' problem
7. Truth and value in science
8. The pragmatics of value
9. Value-laden conflict: The participant observer
10. 'Are they biting?': Values and pragmemes
11. User values in the cyber world
12. Conclusion: Adaptability vs. adaptivity
References
2. Computer-mediated discourse in context: Pluralism of communicative action and discourse common ground
1. Introduction
2. Context, contextualisation and indexicality of communicative action
2.1 Context and contexts, and types and tokens
2.2 Contextualisation cues and contextualisation
2.3 Indexicality of communicative action
3. Pluralism of communicative action
3.1 Multilayered participation
3.2 Discourse common ground
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
3. Cyberpragmatics in the age of locative media
1. Introduction
2. The setting
3. Cyberpragmatics
4. Communicating through locative media
4.1 Contextual constraints in communication through locative media
4.2 The user's (intended) manifestness upon using locative media
4.3 Mutual manifestness through locative media
4.4 The relevance of inferred information out of locative media.
4.5 Non-propositional effects meant or leaked from the use of locative media
a. Impact on the user's self-concept and identity
b. Sense of community and group membership
c. Feeling of being connected, of co-presence
d. Personal feelings associated with place
5. An example: Cyberpragmatics of 'Facebook' check-ins
6. Concluding remarks
Funding
References
4. Interpreting emoji pragmatics
1. Introduction
2. Background literature
2.1 Emoji as language
2.2 Emoji semantics
2.3 Explanations for semantic ambiguity
2.4 Emoji pragmatics
3. Research questions
4. Methods
4.1 Survey design
4.1.1 Survey items and discourse context
4.1.2 Emoji types
4.1.3 Pragmatic functions
4.1.4 Multiple-part items
4.1.5 Pilot study
4.1.6 Final survey structure
4.2 Distribution
4.3 Quantitative measures
5. Findings
5.1 Respondent demographics
5.2 Respondents' social media usage
5.3 Respondents' interpretations of pragmatic functions
5.3.1 Overall
5.3.2 Individual items
5.4 Agreement
5.6 Open-ended responses
6. Discussion
6.1 Research questions revisited
6.2 Emoji ambiguity: Pros and cons
6.3 The role of discourse context
6.4 The status of emoji as a language
7. Conclusions
References
5. Speech acts and the dissemination of knowledge in social networks
1. Introduction
2. Social networks and speech acts
3. An Austin-based speech act theoretical framework
4. Illocutionary act types and their contributions to the dissemination of knowledge
4.1 Verdictives
4.2 Exercitives
4.3 Commissives
4.4 Behabitives
5. Concluding remarks
Authorship statement
Funding
References
Part II. The discursive management of self on the internet
6. Humour and self-presentation on 'WhatsApp' profile status
1. Introduction.
2. Literature review
2.1 Humour
2.2 Humour and digital communication
2.3 'WhatsApp' and its statuses
3. Methodology
4. Data analysis
4.1 Types and frequency of 'WhatsApp' statuses according to realization
4.2 Types and frequency of 'WhatsApp' statuses according to content
4.3 Humorous statuses
4.3.1 Intertextuality
4.4 Humorous statuses, gender and age
5. Conclusions
References
7. Inviting a purchase: A multimodal analysis of staged authenticity in WeChat social selling
1. Introduction
2. Research background
2.1 Social selling in WeChat
2.2 Theoretical perspective
2.2.1 Dramaturgical theory, frame and footing
2.2.2 Staged authenticity in digital narratives
3. Data and methods
4. Discussion
4.1 The narration in WeChat social selling
4.2 The influencers in WeChat social selling
4.2.1 Case study 1: The influencer in WeChat Moments
4.2.2 Case study 2: The influencer in WeChat group chat
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
8. Online nicks, impoliteness, and Jewish identity in Israeli Russian conflict discourse
1. Introduction
2. Theorizing nicks, identity, and personal names in a migrant community
3. Methodology
4. Data and analysis
4.1 Thread: Zeev
4.2 Translating the Hebrew nick into Russian
4.3 Russian versus Hebrew names
5. Discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Part III. Pragmatics of internet-mediated texts
9. Candidates' use of Twitter during the 2016 Austrian presidential campaign
1. Introduction
2. The use of ICTs in political communication
3. Methodological approach
4. The 2016 Austrian presidential campaign: Details and data
5. Results
6. Discussion and conclusions
References.
10. A study on how cultural and gender parameters affect emoticon distribution, usage and frequency in American and Japanese online discourse
1. Introduction
2. A review of the emoticon literature: Function, gender and cultural factors
3. Data
3.1 Gender clarification
4. Emoticons analyzed
5. Methods of emoticon classification
5.1 Emoticons as propositional markers
Emoticons as iconic/emotion strengtheners
Emoticons that enhance verbal linguistic content
Emoticons as lexical replacements
5.2 Emoticons as politeness-affiliated speech act markers
Emoticons that act as PIU's
Emoticons that act as negative impact downgraders (NID)
Supplementary UMC's
6. Results
6.1 Japanese emoticon frequency
6.2 American emoticon frequency
6.3 Cross-cultural emoticon frequency
6.4 Functions: Emoticons as propositional markers
Japanese female examples (Emoticons as iconic/emotion strengtheners)
Japanese male examples (emoticons as iconic/emotional strengtheners)
American female examples (emoticons as iconic/emotion strengtheners)
American male example (emoticons as iconic/emotion strengtheners)
Japanese female example (emoticons as lexical replacements/enhancers of verbal linguistic content)
Japanese male example (emoticon as lexical replacement/enhancer of verbal linguistic content)
American female example (emoticon as lexical replacement/enhancer of verbal linguistic content)
American male examples (emoticons that enhance verbal linguistic content)
7. Politeness-affiliated data
Politeness-affiliated data: Japanese female example (comments opening and solidarity markers)
Japanese male examples (comment openings and closings)
American male example (comments opening and closing)
Japanese male examples (markers of solidarity).
American female examples (markers of solidarity and compliments)
American male examples (solidarity markers and compliments)
Japanese female examples (expressing gratitude)
American female examples (expressing gratitude)
American male examples (expressing thanks)
8. Interplay and relationship between emoticons and other UMC's
9. Discussion
10. Conclusion
References
11. Migration through the English-Greek translated press
1. The circumstances, re/mediation, translation and politics
2. The migration experience
3. Mediating migration in translated press
4. On global conflict, online communication and translation
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Name index
Subject index.