Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture) - Softcover

Yus, Francisco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032060670 ISBN 13: 9781032060675

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

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.

Aimed primarily at scholars and graduate students of communication, linguistics, pragmatics, media studies, and sociology of mass media, Smartphone Communication traffics in topics that will likewise engage upper-level undergraduate students.

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About the Author

Francisco Yus is Full Professor at the University of Alicante, Spain, and guest professor at Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China. He is currently the head of the Inter-university Research Institute of Applied Modern Languages of the Valencian Community (IULMA) at the University of Alicante as well as Head of the Research Group Professional and Academic English.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032060670
• ISBN 13: 9781032060675
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 330