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This collection calls greater attention to the need for a clearer
understanding of the role of discourse in the process of
placemaking in the digital age and the increasing hybridisation of
physical and virtual worlds. The volume outlines a new
conceptualisation of place in the time of smartphones, whose
technological and social affordances evoke placemaking as a
collaborative endeavour which allows users to create and maintain a
sense of community around place as shareable or collective
experience. Taken together, chapters argue for a greater emphasis
on the ways in which users employ discourse to manage this
physical-virtual interface in digital interactions and in turn,
produce "remixed" cultural practices that draw on diverse digital
semiotic resources and reflect their everyday experiences of place
and location. The book explores a wide range of topics and contexts
which embody these dynamics, including livestreaming platforms,
mourning in the digital age, e-service encounters, and Internet
forums. While the overlay of physical and virtual information on
location-based media is not a new phenomenon, this volume argues
that, in the face of its increasing pervasiveness, we can better
understand its unfolding and future directions for research by
accounting for the significance of place in today's interactions.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in discourse
analysis, digital communication, pragmatics, and media studies.
The book offers a unique model in an area where research is
much-needed: the cognitive underpinnings, interactions and
discursive effects of our evolving use of smartphones in everyday
app-mediated communication, from text messages and gifs to images,
video and social media apps The book gives attention to how both
the particular interfaces of different apps and users' personal
attributes influence the contexts and uses of smartphone
communication The book includes insights from related disciplines
such as media studies and sociology in an attempt to unpack the
timeliest questions of our digitally mediated age This book will
prove valuable for scholars and graduate students of communication,
linguistics, pragmatics, media studies and sociology of mass media
and will likewise engage upper-level undergraduate students
This book provides a first thorough analysis of internet humour
from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective, covering a wide range of
discourses that are pervasive online and focusing especially on
messaging interactions, social networking sites and memes. Its
chapters describe the inferential strategies implemented to turn
online coded discourses into meaningful interpretations, which in
turn can be devised and manipulated for the sake of humour.
Furthermore, and apart from the typical object of pragmatic
research (humorous discourses), the book emphasises the importance
of the interfaces’ design and of the qualities of the users
engaged in humorous interactions (called contextual constraints),
additionally highlighting the parallel significance of the various
effects, shaped as feelings and emotions, that stem from humorous
communication on the internet. In sum, the book delivers a rich and
detailed account of humorous internet discourses through dissecting
their affordances as a medium, tracking the users’ intentions,
and predicting the audiences’ interpretive strategies, with the
goal of helping the reader obtain a better understanding of
internet humour and its role in today’s online interactions.
This book approaches metaphor in specialised discourses, covering
various fields. The studies presented in the book adopt different
research frameworks, ranging from pragmatics to conceptual metaphor
theory, among others. The book is divided into three Sections that
analyse major specialised discourses where metaphor is frequently
found and the role that metaphor plays in these discourses. The
first Section approaches the discourse of Business and Economics
from different perspectives. The second Section addresses the use
of metaphor in politics, diplomacy and law. Finally, Section three
covers the use of metaphors in other specialised discourses such as
marine, fashion, gender or health.
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