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Lukas R.A. Wilde Sachs and Klaus Sachs-Hombach (eds.): The Semiotics of Emoji and Digital Stickers
2023 •
Lukas R . A . Wilde
Every day, billions of emoji are sent via mobile devices and chat programs, messengers, and emails. The worldwide emoji standardization – established in 2010 by the California-based Unicode Consortium – was aimed at overcoming linguistic and cultural barriers through a new digital form of pictograms and ideograms. Certainly, much has been written on the various linguistic functions of emoji ever since. Going beyond notions of static codes or fixed grammars, this special issue of IMAGE approaches emoji and digital stickers from the perspective of everyday communication and mediation. It is based on the panel »Emoji and Digital Stickers: Affective Labor and Lifeworld Mediation« held during the 15th World Congress of Semiotics (IASS/AIS), »Semiotics in the Lifeworld«, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) on August 31, 2022. Apart from some of the presenters, additional contributors have been sought to represent better at least a part of current approaches to emoji research at the intersection of semiotics, linguistics, and media studies. Emoji seem especially suited to such a multi-disciplinary approach: As (partly) pictogrammatic signs, they can be investigated as a (special, quite peculiar) forms of pictoriality just as well as an innovation within digital writing modifying and enhancing our linguistic means of expressions.
Beyond the Alphabet – Communication with Emojis
Christa Dürscheid
The paper provides an overview of the functions of emojis in everyday written communication – either used to complement or to replace text. The first chapter presents the current research literature on this topic and addresses the differences between unicode emojis and the former ASCII-signs. Then we discuss a question hotly debated by the public: May emojis be considered the basis of a new universal language? After having shown on both the lexical and the grammatical level that this cannot be the case we move on to the question whether, within our alphabetic system of writing, emojis may be used as additional graphic signs. The last chapter offers some examples of WhatsApp messages containing emojis in the various functions discussed before (as allographs and ideograms, for instance). Furthermore, a frequency analysis based on the Swiss WhatsApp corpus shows the distribution of emojis in these data.
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
SPAMID-PAIR: A Novel Indonesian Post–Comment Pairs Dataset Containing Emoji
2022 •
Yohanes Suyanto
International journal of linguistics, literature and translation
Various Netizen Utterances through Tweet #Bjorka: Psycholinguistic Approach
2022 •
Hairus Salikin
The different functions of emojis
2019 •
Stefan Rupar
Emojis are useful and efficient tools in computer-mediated communication. The present study aims to find out how English-speaking Twitter users employ five specific emojis, and if they utilize them for the same pragmatic functions. The five emojis were chosen based on earlier research on the subject. One of them was deemed unambiguous and four were deemed ambiguous in previous studies. To investigate whether these emojis are ambiguous and if they are used for several pragmatic functions, a corpus was made by collecting tweets from Twitter. 100 tweets were gathered for each emoji: 50 from New York and 50 from London. Each tweet was analyzed in order to see what function the emoji served in each tweet. Another objective was to find out if cultural differences had any importance for the pragmatic function of the emojis. Three of the four emojis that had been deemed ambiguous by previous research were considered to be ambiguous in the present study as well, as they displayed a multitude...
Géczi Evelin-Izabella: Language aggression on social media platforms
2021 •
Evelin-Izabella Géczi
The current study aims to observe the triggers behind language aggression displayed on social media platforms. Aggressiveness is generally performed by individuals with a dominant attitude, high self-esteem and a positive mindset towards violence. It does not only develop due to personality traits, but also due to experienced trauma or domestic abuse, leading to antisocial tendencies and the absence of sympathy towards others, as well as the incompetence to comprehend another’s feelings and experiences. Aggressiveness can lead to repeated and constant acts of harassment intended to cause persistent trauma and fear in one’s life (Willard 2007a: 33). There is a significant difference between traditional and online bullying, as presence on the internet inevitably involves vulnerability and high chances of becoming a victim of harassment. Language aggression is a complex concept which is frequently encountered on the Internet. Online content and comments are commonly and intentionally obnoxious and hateful. Furthermore, offensive language is regularly used regarding one’s race, sex, belief, political insight, gender identity, and social status being thus the vehicle of online bullying (Bernstein et al. 2011 qtd. in Zimmerman 2012: 1). Therefore, the practical part focuses on categorizing the hate comments retrieved from Zoe LaVerne’s TikTok account according to the elaborated typologies: obscenity and indecency, swearing and cursing, irony and sarcasm, name-calling, blasphemy and profanity, and hate speech. The aim of my project is to show the different manifestations of language aggression. Keywords: language aggression, social media platforms, hate comments
Círculo de Lingüística APLICADA A LA COMUNICACIÓN CLAC
El código emoji: de la interfaz frecuencia-función a la identidad discursiva digital Emoji code: from frequency-function interface to digital discursive identity
2023 •
Xose A . Padilla-García
Resumen El trabajo que aquí presentamos tiene dos objetivos fundamentales. El primero es examinar la relación entre la frecuencia de los emojis y sus funciones, pragmáticas y discursivas. El segundo es investigar cómo la frecuencia de uso y su relación con las mencionadas variables (los significados trasmitidos o expresados por las mismas) pueden aportar información relevante sobre la 'identidad discursiva digital' de los usuarios. Los resultados del análisis estadístico indican que un emoji aparecerá más frecuentemente, de manera significativa, si representa un elemento no verbal; es usado para mitigar posibles conflictos; expresa ironía y humor; es repetible; y puede ser utilizado tanto por mujeres como por hombres (unisex). En relación con la identidad discursiva digital, es posible señalar que hombres y mujeres utilizan indistintamente aquellos emojis que tienen como objetivo limar posibles conflictos, potenciar lo común y conseguir que, en los chats, se produzca un ambiente cortés, divertido y agradable (condición necesaria). Los hombres, sin embargo, a diferencia de las mujeres, ven determinada parte de sus elecciones por otras razones sociales como la 'identidad masculina'. Este factor podría explicar, por una parte, un uso menor en general de los emojis, quizás por una supuesta atribución de este código a lo femenino; pero, especialmente, ayuda a entender la ausencia de aquellos emojis (tristeza, miedo, súplica, flores, etc.) de cuyo uso pudiera inferirse algún tipo de debilidad, relacionada hipotéticamente con una 'identidad femenina'.
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The Emoji Factor: Humanizing the Emerging Law of Digital Speech
2017 •
Elizabeth A Kirley
Emoji are widely perceived as a whimsical, humorous or affectionate adjunct to online communications. We are discovering, however, that they are much more: they hold a complex socio-cultural history and perform a role in social media analogous to non-verbal behaviour in offline speech. This paper suggests emoji are the seminal workings of a nuanced, rebus-type language, one serving to inject emotion, creativity, ambiguity – in other words ‘humanity’ - into computer mediated communications. That perspective challenges doctrinal and procedural requirements of our legal systems, particularly as they relate to such requisites for establishing guilt or fault as intent, foreseeability, consensus, and liability when things go awry. This paper asks: are we prepared as a society to expand constitutional protections to the casual, unmediated ‘low value’ speech of emoji? It identifies four interpretative challenges posed by emoji for the judiciary or other conflict resolution specialists, char...
Becoming Human with Humanoid - From Physical Interaction to Social Intelligence
Emoji as a Proxy of Emotional Communication
2020 •
Orlando Grabiel Toledano López
Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal The Emoji Code: A Socio-Semiotic Inquiry into the Global Landscape of Reading Language Through Images
2020 •
Rashmi Jacob
Emoji, are ideograms or pictorial images used as surrogates of plain texts which conveys an idea, meaning, emotions, intent and leaves an effect on the receiver. These are considered an important signal in social cognition. Also, their ubiquitous growth and usage mirror each other's responses like speech. The purpose of this study is to find if this innovation-mediated artificial language is becoming the new written mobile phone lingua franca in its own right? To answer, the study has briefly explored the origin and development of emoji, its parallels with pre-alphabet ancient languages, a comparison with alphabet-based communication, semiotics and the socio-cultural factors which govern the use and historical evidence which suggest that emojis are part of a long tradition of using images to convey meaning in writing.
