"Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since pragmatics deals with communication in context and how more gets communicated than is said (or typed), applications of this linguistic perspective to internet communication, under the umbrella label of internet pragmatics, are not only welcome, but necessary. 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. This collection also addresses the role of emoticons and emoji in typed-text dialogues and the importance of "physical place" in internet interactions (exhibiting an interplay of online-offline environments), as is the case in the role of place in locative media and in broader place-related communication, as in migration"--.

• 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