A pragmatics of intimacy
Marquez Reiter, R. and Frohlich, D. (2020) A pragmatics of intimacy Internet Pragmatics.
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Abstract
This study examines the ways in which multiple modern communication technologies facilitate, across time and space, the maintenance of a close interpersonal relationship between two best friends. The analysis, which focuses mainly on the openings and closings of the different types of communications, reveals a tendency for the friends to shorten openings and extend closings. However, this is possible only if the friends are fully aware of, and care about, the practical, social and emotional details of each other’s lives during periods of absence. The concomitant linguistic behaviours in their interpersonal interactions could be described as a kind of pragmatics of intimacy which cannot be achieved without the explicit and practical demonstration of that mutual care and concern.
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Department of Music and Media Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of Literature and Languages |
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Date : | 27 January 2020 | ||||||||||||
Funders : | British Telecommunications plc (BT), UK Technology Strategy Board | ||||||||||||
DOI : | 10.1075/ip.00044.mar | ||||||||||||
Grant Title : | Knowledge Transfer Project | ||||||||||||
Copyright Disclaimer : | Copyright 2020 John Benjamins Publishing Company. This article is under copyright and that the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form. | ||||||||||||
Uncontrolled Keywords : | Intimacy; Technologies of mediation; Interactional presence; Interactional absence; Openings; Closeness; Pragmatics; Interpersonal relationship; Emotion | ||||||||||||
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Depositing User : | Clive Harris | ||||||||||||
Date Deposited : | 17 Aug 2018 09:45 | ||||||||||||
Last Modified : | 27 Feb 2020 14:58 | ||||||||||||
URI: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/849006 |
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