Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem

ISBN-13: 9781032060668 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 318 str.

Francisco Yus

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: the Smartphone Phenomenon  Part 1: Pragmatics, Cyberpragmatics and Smartphones  2. Relevance Theory, Internet Pragmatics and Cyberpragmatics  3. Contextual Constraints and Non-Propositional Effects  4. Smartphone Communication and App Usability  Part 2: Smartphone-Mediated Discourse and Communication  5. Texting: From Sms to Smartphone Messaging  6. Phone Calls and Video Calls are (Surprisingly) also Enabled  7. New Narratives and Storytelling on the Smartphone  Part 3: Media on the Smartphone  8. Media on the Smartphone: Images  9. Media on the Smartphone: Video and Animation (Gif, Sticker)  Part Iv: The Interplay Between the Physical and the Virtual  10. Live Streaming: The Case of Twitch  11. Location-Based Smartphone Interaction  12. Towards Online-Offline Congruence: Social Networking Apps  13. Concluding Remarks and Future Projections

O autorze

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.