Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage

Michele Zappavigna; Lorenzo Logi

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Michele Zappavigna, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Lorenzo Logi, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: February 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781009179829
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009179829

Subjects:: Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language and Linguistics

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Emoji are now ubiquitous in our interactions on social media. But how do we use them to convey meaning? And how do they function in social bonding? This unique book provides a comprehensive framework for analysing how emoji contribute to meaning-making in social media discourse, alongside language. Presenting emoji as a visual paralanguage, it features extensive worked examples of emoji analysis, using corpora derived from social media such as Twitter and TikTok, to explore how emoji interact with their linguistic co-text. It also draws on the author's extensive work on social media affiliation to consider how emoji function in social bonding. The framework for analysing emoji is explained in an accessible way, and a glossary is included, detailing each system and feature from the system networks used as the schemas for undertaking the analysis. It is essential reading for anyone wishing to investigate the role of emoji in digital communication.

‘Highly recommended.’

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Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage
pp i-ii

Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-ix

Figures
pp x-xi

Tables
pp xii-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiii

Note on the Text
pp xiv-xiv

Abbreviations
pp xv-xvi

1 - Social Media Paralanguage and Emoji
pp 1-17

2 - Technical Dimensions
pp 18-42

3 - Modelling Emoji–Text Relations
pp 43-73

4 - Emoji Synchronising with Textual Meaning
pp 74-87

5 - Emoji Concurring with Ideational Meaning
pp 88-109

6 - Emoji Resonating with Interpersonal Meaning
pp 110-134

7 - Dialogic Affiliation
pp 135-165

8 - Communing Affiliation: The Role of Emoji in Communing around Bonds
pp 166-185

9 - Beyond Emoji–Text Relations
pp 186-207

10 - Conclusion
pp 208-230

References
pp 231-243

Glossary
pp 244-247

Index
pp 248-252

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