Approaches to Internet Pragmatics

The chapter problematizes pragmatic shifts in 2015 web-retrieved English-Greek translated press news texts on the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe. There seems to be a gate-keeping role of the traditional media to locally reshape global dissemination of inference-making through verbal material, which changes the realism of the news. The study analyses patterns of shifts in verbally mediated instances of suffering and migration in the Greek translated press to show the contribution of the receiving