Introduction: Global Implications for Society and Education in the Networked Age

Abstract

We live in the age of information access and information processing defines the way we live and think. The fact that social media is increasingly reliant on language has made politicians and journalists become aware of the role of language in the explanation of the dramatic changes that are shaping a new horizon in geopolitical and human relations. For this reason, the fourth volume of the series Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2016 is published at an opportune moment as it offers an accurate and theory-principled view on reality based on the linguistic investigation of social and educational challenges in our networked times. Its contributors have strived to look at reality from a corpus pragmatic perspective and have evidenced the importance of digital access to society, information and language teaching methodology.