Cyberpragmatics: Internet-Mediated Communication in Context
by Francisco Yus
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011
ISBN-13: 9789027256195
Number of pages: 370
Description:
Cyberpragmatics is an analysis of Internet-mediated communication from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics. It addresses a whole range of interactions that can be found on the Net: the web page, chat rooms, instant messaging, social networking sites, 3D virtual worlds, blogs, videoconference, e-mail, Twitter, etc.
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