Beyond Words: Pragmatics in the Digital Era is a scholarly examination of pragmatics as a foundational framework for understanding meaning-making in contemporary communication, especially within digitally mediated environments. The book argues that meaning cannot be adequately accounted for through grammatical structure or lexical semantics alone; rather, it emerges through the interaction of language, context, inference, social relations, technological mediation, and audience design. In this respect, the volume repositions pragmatics as central to the study of communication in the twenty-first century.
The book is organized progressively, beginning with a conceptual and historical introduction to pragmatics and then moving through a series of major pragmatic domains, including meaning and context, speech acts, conversational implicature, politeness, deixis, presupposition, discourse organization, intercultural communication, multimodality, digital pedagogy, and translation across media. This structure enables the volume to connect classical pragmatic theory with contemporary communicative phenomena such as social media interaction, online discourse, platform-specific norms, algorithmic visibility, and human-machine communication.
The volume also makes a strong pedagogical and applied intervention. Beyond theoretical explanation, it demonstrates the relevance of pragmatics for professional interaction, intercultural communication, media literacy, digital education, and translation practice. In particular, it argues that communicative competence in contemporary life requires sensitivity not only to linguistic accuracy but also to pragmatic appropriateness, relational meaning, platform norms, and contextual fit. This emphasis gives the book value for students, teachers, researchers, translators, and communication practitioners working in increasingly digital and multilingual contexts.
Overall, Beyond Words: Pragmatics in the Digital Era offers an academically grounded and thematically comprehensive account of how meaning is negotiated across contemporary communicative environments. By bringing together established pragmatic theory and the distinctive conditions of digital discourse, the book presents pragmatics not as a peripheral branch of linguistics, but as an indispensable lens for analyzing language, interaction, and social life in a connected world.
Authors : Merlin Helentina Napitupulu,S.S.,M.Hum. | Ely Hayati Nasution, S.S., M.Si. | Dr. Aprili Yanti, S.Pd., M.Hum. | Maria Wihelmina Wisrance, S.Pd., M.Pd.
Editor: Merlin Helentina Napitupulu,S.S.,M.Hum.
Halaman buku: 236
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