Emoji and social media paralanguage / Michele Zappavigna and Lorenzo Logi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zappavigna, Michele, author.

Logi, Lorenzo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emojis.

Social media.

Language and the Internet.

Communication--Technological innovations.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"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 digital communication"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Note on the Text

Abbreviations

1. Social Media Paralanguage and Emoji

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The Semiotic Flexibility of Emoji

1.3 The Semiotic Complexity of Encoding and Rendering 'Picture Characters'

1.4 Emoji as a Social Media Paralanguage

1.5 A Social Semiotic Perspective on Emoji-Text Relations

1.6 Using Corpora to Understand Emoji

1.7 Corpora Analysed in This Book

1.8 Structure of This Book

2. Technical Dimensions: The Encoding and Rendering of Emoji

2.1 Introduction

2.2 How Emoji Are Developed

2.3 Encoding Emoji

2.4 Rendering Emoji as Glyphs: Emoji Display across 'Vendors'

2.5 Emoji Organisation

2.6 Semiotic Technologies

2.7 Emoji Aesthetics

2.8 Emoji Corpus Construction and Concordancing

2.9 Emoji Corpus Annotation

2.10 Conclusion

3. Modelling Emoji-Text Relations

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Discourse Semantics Systems for Analysing Linguistic Meanings

3.3 Tenor Relations and Bi-stratal Semiosis

3.4 Intermodal Convergence

3.5 Principles for Determining Emoji-Language Convergence

3.6 The System of Emoji-Text Convergence

3.7 Conclusion

4. Emoji Synchronising with Textual Meaning

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Systematising Emoji-Text Synchronicity

4.3 Inset

4.4 Punctuate

4.5 Intertextual Cohesion

4.6 Conclusion

5. Emoji Concurring with Ideational Meaning

5.1 Introduction: Representing Experience

5.2 Not Just a Catalogue of Types

5.3 Frequent Ideational Patterns in the Corpus

5.4 A System Network for Emoji-Text Concurrence

5.5 Depict

5.6 Embellish

5.7 Emoji Meme Sequences

5.8 Conclusion

6. Emoji Resonating with Interpersonal Meaning

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Frequent Interpersonal Patterns in the Corpus

6.3 A System Network for Emoji-Text Resonance

6.4 Imbue

6.5 Enmesh: Harmonise

6.6 Enmesh: Rebound

6.7 Up-Scaling Attitude through Emoji Repetition

6.8 Radiating Interpersonal Meaning through Iconisation

6.9 Conclusion

7. Dialogic Affiliation: The Role of Emoji in Negotiating Social Bonds

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Negotiating Bonds in the Quarantine Hotel Food Review TikTok Corpus

7.3 Quarantine Hotel Food Review TikTok Comment Corpus

7.4 Dialogic Affiliation

7.5 The Role of Emoji in rallying around Shared Bonds

7.6 The Role of Emoji Invoking Laughter

7.7 The Role of Emoji in Negotiating Gendered Bonds about Appearance

7.8 The Role of Emoji in rejecting Bonds

7.9 Conclusion

8. Communing Affiliation: The Role of Emoji in Communing around Bonds

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The #Domicron Corpus

8.3 Communing Affiliation: Convoke, Finesse, and Promote

8.4 Emoji Supporting [Boosting] and [Buttressing] Affiliation

8.5 Emoji Supporting with Convoking Affiliation

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Feb 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009189163

1009189166

9781009189170

1009189174

9781009179829

1009179829