The Pragmatics of Facebook Interactions in Romania and the Republic of Moldova
The Pragmatics of Facebook Interactions
in Romania and the Republic of Moldova
Author(s): Alexandra Toma
Subject(s): Media studies, Communication studies
Published by: CEEOLPRESS
Keywords: computer-mediated communication; emoji; pragmatic markers; speech acts
Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the results of a survey conducted on a corpus of Facebook posts and compares patterns of online interaction through this social media platform in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, with an emphasis on linguistic methods of expressivity and the pragmatics of communicative exchanges. Moreover, the paper will corroborate the discoveries of the surveys with cultural elements (common and distinct) in order to reveal the way culture is mirrored in communication through Facebook.
Book: Cross-border Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Approaches of Life Quality
- Page Range: 269-288
- Page Count: 20
- Publication Year: 2022
- Language: English
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