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Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice
Edited by Chaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 318] 2021
► pp. 75–105

Chapter 3
Cyberpragmatics in the age of locative media

| University of Alicante , Spain

One of the aims of cyberpragmatics (Yus 2001, 2010a, 2011a, 2013) is to explain the role that interfaces play in the (un)successful outcome of virtual interactions, and their mediation in the management of the relevance-related formula of comprehension. However, many things have changed in the way internet is used nowadays compared to the role that it played in the early years of this century, together with a radical change in the presence of internet in people’s lives (a non-stop connection, blurred physical-virtual contexts for interactions, etc.). This chapter will be devoted to today’s locative media and the way in which cyberpragmatics can address the impact of location-based media on the quality of today’s communication, both in physical and virtual environments.

Keywords: locative media, cyberpragmatics, smartphone communication, online check-in, Facebook check-in
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The setting
  • 3.Cyberpragmatics
  • 4.Communicating through locative media
    • 4.1Contextual constraints in communication through locative media
    • 4.2The user’s (intended) manifestness upon using locative media
    • 4.3Mutual manifestness through locative media
    • 4.4The relevance of inferred information out of locative media
    • 4.5Non-propositional effects meant or leaked from the use of locative media
      • a.Impact on the user’s self-concept and identity
      • b.Sense of community and group membership
      • c.Feeling of being connected, of co-presence
      • d.Personal feelings associated with place
  • 5.An example: Cyberpragmatics of Facebook check-ins
  • 6.Concluding remarks
  • References
Published online: 21 April 2021
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