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Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since pragmatics deals with communication in context and how more gets communicated than is said (or typed), applications of this linguistic perspective to internet communication, under the umbrella label of internet pragmatics, are not only welcome, but necessary. The volume covers straightforward applications of pragmatic phenomena to internet interactions, as happens with speech acts and contextualization, and internet-specific kinds of communication such as the one taking place on WhatsApp, WeChat and Twitter. This collection also addresses the role of emoticons and emoji in typed-text dialogues and the importance of physical place in internet interactions (exhibiting an interplay of online-offline environments), as is the case in the role of place in locative media and in broader place-related communication, as in migration.

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The volume is well-written and edited in a clear, systematic and accessible manner. The chapters in three parts are balanced with a clearly-related and logical theme, and the text is supported with ample examples, diagrams, pictures and photos to facilitate understanding. Given its innovative and rich content, the volume has undoubtedly opened up new perspectives for pragmatics and will serve as an excellent reference and a practical guide for students, teachers, and researchers in pragmatics and discourse studies who seek to keep themselves current on the latest developments in the field. It deserves my most enthusiastic recommendation. -- Hongyan Shen, Zhejiang University City College, in Journal of Pragmatics 186 (2021).

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