Social Media- A pragmatic Approach: Contexts & Implicatures

The present paper aims at approaching Social Media from a Pragmatic point of view. Implicatures and contexts in social media are also taken into account as linguistic tools that may facilitate such an approach. Communication — the sharing of information, ideas, and thoughts – is a vital part of life for all of us. The different methods that allow us to communicate are called media. A postcard to a friend, a telephone call, and a computer disk holding homework are all types of media. Some of these have developed beyond simple methods of communication to become sophisticated tools, capable of persuading and influencing large numbers of people. It seems that nowadays the techniques for building a Social Media presence have acquired an outmost importance. Our analysis will centre on Social Media sites with a special focus on British newspaper blogs.