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This volume examines the language of microblogs drawing on the example of a group of eleven users who are united by their interest in ballet as a physical activity and an art form. The book reports on a three and a half year study which complemented a 20,000 word corpus of tweets with semi-structured interviews and participant observation. It deals with two main questions: how users exploit the linguistic resources at their disposal to build a certain identity, and how the community boundaries are performed discursively. The focus is on the speech acts of self-praise and complaint, and on the...

This Element discusses the challenges that different types of corpora offer for the study of pragmatic phenomena. The focus lies on a hands-on approach to methods and data that provides orientation for methodological decisions. We identify areas in which new methodological developments are needed in order to make new types of data accessible.

This Element focuses on three pragmatics issues - relational work, participation structure, and mediality. By reviewing the trajectory of pragmatics research on translation over time, and outlining our understanding of the Pragmatics in Translation, we arrive at a set of potential research questions which represent desiderata for future research.