(In)Appropriate Online Behavior: A pragmatic analysis of message board relations

• Main Author: Jenny Arendholz
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013
• Series: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
• Subjects: Book Industry Communication; Communication studies; Discourse studies; Language; P1-1091; Pragmatics

This descriptive and comprehensive study on the discursive struggle over interpersonal relations in online message boards is located at the fascinating interface of pragmatics and computer-mediated discourse – a research area which has so far not attracted much scientific interest. It sets out to sh...