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 digital communication"--

List of contents

Note on the text; Abbreviations; 1. Social media paralanguage and emoji; 2. Technical dimensions: the encoding and rendering of emoji; 3. Modelling emoji-text relations; 4. Emoji SYNCHRONISING with textual meaning; 5. Emoji CONCURRING with ideational meaning; 6. Emoji RESONATING with interpersonal meaning; 7. DIALOGIC AFFILIATION: the role of emoji in negotiating social bonds; 8. COMMUNING AFFILIATION: the role of emoji in communing around bonds; 9. Beyond emoji-text relations: factoring in images and other semiotic resources; 10. Conclusion; Glossary.

About the author

Michele Zappavigna is an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. She is co-editor of the journal Visual Communication. Her key books include Searchable Talk: Hashtags and Social Media Metadiscourse (2018, Bloomsbury) and Discourse of Twitter and Social Media (2012, Bloomsbury).Lorenzo Logi is an early career academic based in Sydney, Australia. His major research interests include social semiotics, digital communication, paralanguage and humour, and he has published numerous articles in top rated journals and book chapters on these subjects.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lorenzo Logi, Michele Zappavigna, Michele (University of New South Wales Zappavigna, Zappavigna Michele
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009179812
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0917981-2
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Sociolinguistics, Digital lifestyle, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication