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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Cyberpragmatics
Subtitle: Internet-mediated communication in context
Written By: Francisco Yus
URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.213
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 213
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. Of special interest is the role of intentions and the quality of interpretations when these Internet-mediated interactions take place, which is often affected by the textual properties of the medium. The book also analyses the pragmatic implications of transferring offline discourses (e.g. printed paper, advertisements) to the screen-framed space of the Net. And although the main framework is cognitive pragmatics, the book also draws from other theories and models in order to build up a better picture of what really happens when people communicate on the Net. This book will interest analysts doing research on computer-mediated communication, university students and researchers undergoing post-graduate courses or writing a PhD thesis.

Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: John Benjamins
Review: Read the review
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Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics
Cognitive Science

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Format: Electronic
ISBN-13: 9789027284662
Prices: Europe EURO 95.00
 
Format: Hardback
ISBN-13: 9789027256195
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Format: Electronic
ISBN-13: 9789027284662
Prices: U.S. $ 143.00
 
Format: Hardback
ISBN-13: 9789027256195
Prices: Europe EURO 100.70
U.S. $ 143.00