Emojis,widely used in social media interactions and considered a crucial semiotic mode,have emerged as a focal point in digital communication,and there has been a proliferation of studies on emojis.Emoji and Social Me...Emojis,widely used in social media interactions and considered a crucial semiotic mode,have emerged as a focal point in digital communication,and there has been a proliferation of studies on emojis.Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage is another compelling addition to this body of work.Different from most of the previous studies on emojis,which mainly focus on emoji characteristics,meanings,functions,platform variations,and their universality and cultural specificity as well(e.g.,Danesi 2017;Kiaer 2023;Leonardi 2022;Parkwell 2019;Siever 2020),this monograph offers a social semiotic model of emoji-language semiosis,presenting a thorough exploration of how emojis,in coordination with language,convey meaning in social media discourse.It consists of ten chapters.展开更多
文摘Emojis,widely used in social media interactions and considered a crucial semiotic mode,have emerged as a focal point in digital communication,and there has been a proliferation of studies on emojis.Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage is another compelling addition to this body of work.Different from most of the previous studies on emojis,which mainly focus on emoji characteristics,meanings,functions,platform variations,and their universality and cultural specificity as well(e.g.,Danesi 2017;Kiaer 2023;Leonardi 2022;Parkwell 2019;Siever 2020),this monograph offers a social semiotic model of emoji-language semiosis,presenting a thorough exploration of how emojis,in coordination with language,convey meaning in social media discourse.It consists of ten chapters.
