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22 - Digitally Mediated Communication

from Part II - Topics and Settings in Sociopragmatics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2021

By
Chaoqun Xie  and
Francisco Yus
Edited by
Michael Haugh ,
Dániel Z. Kádár  and
Marina Terkourafi
Michael Haugh
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Dániel Z. Kádár
Affiliation:
Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics, and Dalian University of Foreign Languages
Marina Terkourafi
Affiliation:
Leiden University
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Summary

In this chapter, we outline the pragmatic issues involved in the analysis of digitally mediated communication. We start with several discursive qualities and implications regarding the range of options for contextualization that the different interfaces exhibit and how users face and overcome digital cues--filtered channels. Then, we move on to more interactive features of digitally mediated communication. Finally, some social aspects of digitally mediated communication are addressed. In the three mentioned areas (discursive, interactive, social), we also seek to explain the role that non-propositional constraints and effects play in the eventual satisfaction with digitally mediated communication, compared to the one that can be found in situations of physical co-presence.

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digitally mediated communicationcomputer-mediated communication (CMC)social mediacontextualization
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics , pp. 454 - 474
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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