Ebook: Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication

The present handbook provides an overview of the pragmatics of language and language use mediated by digital technologies. Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is defined to include text-based interactive communication via the Internet, websites and other multimodal formats, and mobile communication. In addition to 'core' pragmatic and discourse-pragmatic phenomena the chapters cover pragmatically-focused research on types of CMC and pragmatic approaches to characteristic CMC phenomena.

• the handbook reflects the state of the art in a comprehensive and coherent way
• it is internationally oriented and interdisciplinary
• it includes reliable orientational overviews useful not only to researchers but also to students and teachers in more than 20 extensive articles
• provides a valuable subject index