Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 104 Seiten
Reihe: LINCOM Studies in Pragmatics
Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 104 Seiten
Reihe: LINCOM Studies in Pragmatics
ISBN: 978-3-86288-533-6
Verlag: LINCOM
The contributions in the book represent some aspects of the current state of the art research in linguistics/discourse pragmatics seen in the broad sense as a functional (i.e. social and cultural) perspective on digital discourse. The studies exemplify the manifestation of Nigerian English on Twitter and Facebook, as well as in texting, blogs, e-learning and online chats. Pragmatics theories and approaches applied in the analyses include politeness, speech/pragmatic acts, relevance and Gricean- pragmatics. This book will serve as a good resource and reference materials for graduate and undergraduate students of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, intercultural pragmatics, new media and communication studies and Internet research in Africa.