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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the pragmatics of social media, i.e. of digitally mediated and Internet-based platforms which are interactively used to share and edit self- and other-generated textual and audio-visual messages. Its five parts offer state-of-the-art reviews and critical evaluations in the light of on-going developments: Part I The Nature of Social Media sets up the conceptual groundwork as it explores key concept such as social media, participation, privacy/publicness. Part II Social Media Platforms focuses on the pragmatics of single platforms such as YouTube, Facebook. Part III Social Media and Discourse covers the micro-and macro-level organization of social media discourse, while Part IV Social Media and Identity reveals the multifarious ways in which users collectively (re- )construct aspects of their identities. Part V Social Media and Functions/Speech Acts surveys pragmatic studies on speech act functions such as disagreeing, complimenting, requesting. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art review together with a critical evaluation of the existing research.

Language and the Internet --- Social media --- Pragmatics --- Communication and technology --- Sociolinguistics --- Network analysis (Sociolinguistics) --- Technology and communication --- Pragmalinguistics --- User-generated media --- Internet and language --- Network analysis --- E-books --- Technology --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Internet --- Methodology --- Philosophy --- Language and the Internet. --- Social media. --- Pragmatics. --- Communication and technology. --- System analysis --- Mass communications --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school)