Approaches to Internet Pragmatics : Theory and Practice.
Xie, Chaoqun.
Approaches to Internet Pragmatics : Theory and Practice. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (358 pages) - Pragmatics and Beyond New Series ; v.318 . - Pragmatics and Beyond New Series .
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.
The volume covers straightforward applications of pragmatic phenomena to internet interactions, as happens with speech acts and contextualization, and internet-specific kinds of communication such as the one taking place on WhatsApp, WeChat and Twitter.
9789027260352
Language and the Internet.
Online social networks.
Instant messaging--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
P120.I6
004.6
Approaches to Internet Pragmatics : Theory and Practice. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (358 pages) - Pragmatics and Beyond New Series ; v.318 . - Pragmatics and Beyond New Series .
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.
The volume covers straightforward applications of pragmatic phenomena to internet interactions, as happens with speech acts and contextualization, and internet-specific kinds of communication such as the one taking place on WhatsApp, WeChat and Twitter.
9789027260352
Language and the Internet.
Online social networks.
Instant messaging--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
P120.I6
004.6