Hoffmann / Bublitz Pragmatics of Social Media

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-11-043111-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 11, 737 Seiten

Reihe: Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the pragmatics of social media, i.e. of digitally mediated and Internet-based platforms which are interactively used to share and edit self- and other-generated textual and audio-visual messages. Its five parts offer state-of-the-art reviews and critical evaluations in the light of on-going developments: Part I sets up the conceptual groundwork as it explores key concept such as . Part II focuses on the pragmatics of single platforms such as YouTube, Facebook. Part III covers the micro-and macro-level organization of social media discourse, while Part IV reveals the multifarious ways in which users collectively (re-)construct aspects of their identities. Part V surveys pragmatic studies on speech act functions such as disagreeing, complimenting, requesting. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art review together with a critical evaluation of the existing research.

Zielgruppe

Academic Institutes and Libraries, Scholars interested in Pragmat

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoffmann, Christian

Hoffmann, Christian R.

Bublitz, Wolfram

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik

Über Autor(innen)

Christian R. Hoffmann, and Wolfram Bublitz, Augsburg, Germany.