Emoji and social media paralanguage /

"Including a wide range of fascinating examples taken from social media, this unique book provides a comprehensive framework for analysing how we use emoji to convey meaning, and how emoji function in social bonding. It is essential reading for anyone wishing to investigate the role of emoji in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Zappavigna, Michele (Author), Logi, Lorenzo (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Subjects:	Emojis. Social media. Language and the Internet. Communication > Technological innovations. Communication > Technological innovations Émojis. Médias sociaux. Langage et Internet. Technologies de l'information et de la communication. emoji. social media. Emojis Language and the Internet Social media

Table of Contents:

Social media paralanguage and emoji
Technical dimensions: the encoding and rendering of emoji
Modelling emoji-text relations
Emoji synchronising with textual meaning
Emoji concurring with ideational meaning
Emoji resonating with interpersonal meaning
Dialogic affiliation: the role of emoji in negotiating social bonds
Communing affiliation: the role of emoji in communing around bonds
Beyond emoji-text relations: factoring in images and other semiotic resources