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Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem

Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

LinguisticsGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 1032060662
ISBN13: 9781032060668
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 6 2021
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book offers a unique model for understanding 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.

Adopting a cyberpragmatics framework, grounded in cognitive pragmatics and relevance theory, it gives attention to how both the particular interfaces of different apps and users' personal attributes influence the contexts and uses of smartphone communication. The communication of emotions - in addition to primarily linguistic content - is foregrounded as an essential element of the kinds of ever-present paralinguistic and phatic communication that characterises our exchange of memes, GIFs, likes, and image- and video-based content. Insights from related disciplines such as media studies and sociology are incorporated as the author unpacks the timeliest questions of our digitally mediated age.

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