ONLINE COMMUNICATION PRAGMATISM
ONLINE COMMUNICATION PRAGMATISM

Summary/Abstract: The recorded technological progress influenced both the educational and the social systems, at a worldwide scale. If, at the beginning of the year 1993 the first Internet connection occurred in Romania, today, according to the sociological studies, the young generation cannot imagine its existence outside the Internet. We expect that the new studies identify the particularities of virtual social communication and mark the transformations generated by it. E-mail interactions are connected to the psychological field, to the unique language found in a permanent evolution, while speech, at the level of discussion groups, seems to be institutionalized. The pragmatism of communication is dependent on the value system of the computerization field in society, which is why the current article makes an inventory and explains the functions of online communication, its particularities and finalities.

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