Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Theoretical and methodological perspectives
6. Chapter 1. Expanding pragmatics 27
7. Chapter 2. Computer-mediated discourse in context 47
8. Chapter 3. Cyberpragmatics in the age of locative media 75
9. Chapter 4. Interpreting emoji pragmatics 107
10. Chapter 5. Speech acts and the dissemination of knowledge in social networks 145
11. Part II. The discursive management of self on the internet
12. Chapter 6. Humour and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile status 175
13. Chapter 7. Inviting a purchase 207
14. Chapter 8. Online nicks, impoliteness, and Jewish identity in Israeli Russian conflict discourse 235
15. Part III. Pragmatics of internet-mediated texts
16. Chapter 9. Candidates’ use of Twitter during the 2016 Austrian presidential campaign 259
17. Chapter 10. A study on how cultural and gender parameters affect emoticon distribution, usage and frequency in American and Japanese online discourse 287
18. Chapter 11. Migration through the English-Greek translated press 321
19. Name index 343
20. Subject index 347