Chapter 4. Interpreting emoji pragmatics

Dainas, Ashley R.; Herring, Susan C.

doi:10.1075/pbns.318.04dai

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“…Investigating the effects of nature on individual service use patterns or preferences will help with the most long-term and stable customization. According to Dainas and Herring, 14 personality is widely utilized in business and psychology studies to identify attitudes and actions, and personality is a significant predictor of customer beliefs and attitudes in information management studies. When it comes to stickers, individuals buy them to use their communication in messages strongly tied to their purpose.…”

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The role of personality traits and engagement factors towards the use of paid stickers in personal communication messages

Sawmong

2022

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Background: The research investigated the personality traits and engagement factors that influence the use of paid stickers in personal communication. The study was driven by the increasing significance of stickers such as emoticons and emojis in online dialogues. The study was hinged on the Theory of the big five personality traits; neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness. The study tested seven hypotheses to ascertain the effect of personality traits and engagement factors towards the utilization of paid stickers in personal communication. Methods: The research applied the quantitative survey research design, where primary data was collected from respondents that had experience in using emojis and emoticons in their communications. The data was collected from respondents in Bangkok, Thailand using a structured questionnaire between May 14, 2022, and May 31, 2022. Results: The results from 391 respondents indicated that conscientiousness, extraversion, openness, and neuroticism influence perceived enjoyment, while perceived enjoyment and perceived ease of use have a significant and positive influence on the intention to use paid stickers. Two elements of engagement, interactive engagement, and personal engagement were used to assess the influence of engagement parameters on the behavioral intention to use paid stickers. The intention to employ paid stickers in personal messages was found to be strongly and favorably influenced by these two engagement characteristics. Conclusions: The study recommends that the creators of stickers, emoticons, and emojis should consider user personality features, sticker engagement, sticker simplicity of use, and the personal delight of users in the creative and communication process. The study concludes that perceived enjoyment and perceived ease of use have a large and favorable impact on the use of paid stickers. The study's main limitation was that it focused on one area of social media. This must be taken into account when applying the findings.

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The role of personality traits and engagement factors towards the use of paid stickers in personal communication messages

Sawmong

2022

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“…Finally, the impact of graphicons on verbal language is almost certainly not limited to SFPs in Chinese. For instance, the use of modal expressions such as ‘surprisingly’ and ‘ridiculously’ may be affected by graphicons, since a major function of graphicon use is tone modification (Dainas and Herring, 2021). The competitive perspective advanced in this study thus suggests new directions for the study of language change as it takes place through online discourse.…”

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From compensation to competition: The impact of graphicons on language use in a Chinese context

Zhang

Herring

Tan

et al. 2023

Discourse & Communication

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This study examines the impact of graphicons (emoticons, emojis, and stickers) on the use of sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Chinese based on a 13-year longitudinal corpus of 941,020 comments posted on the popular Chinese social media platform Bilibili. Quantitative analysis shows that graphicon frequencies increase while SFP frequencies decrease over time, and that the correlation between these two trends is statistically significant. However, the more an SFP encodes a grammatical function or has a negative connotation, the less likely it is to be replaced by graphicons. Qualitative analysis suggests that the relationship between graphicons and SFPs is evolving from syntagmatic, where the two co-occur in the same sentence, to paradigmatic, where either can fulfill the function of expressing (positive) attitude or sentiment. This suggests that the functions of graphicons are shifting from compensation to competition with language, as an alternative to SFPs.

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“…As alluded to above, the social semiotic interpretation of emojis points up the interpretation of emojis in authentic contexts of use, since emoji semantics is generally inadequate to perceive the intended meaning of emoji-laden messages (Dainas and Herring, 2021). Legal professionals are thus recommended to pore through the multi-layered contextual elements for the real meaning of an emoji or emoji-bearing texts.…”

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Deciphering emoji variation in courts: a social semiotic perspective

Pei

Cheng

2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Emojis are increasingly being used as digital evidence in courts due to the miscommunication and misinterpretation arising from the high variability of their usage and interpretation. Emojis in courts have been extensively researched in extant studies, but relatively little attention has been paid to the emoji variation phenomena in Chinese courts. Through an empirical qualitative content analysis of the court judgments in China and the United States and some supplementary materials, this study posits that an emoji’s meaning in courts can be subject to the following six categories of variations: i. variation across platforms, including devices, operating systems, software programs and clients; ii. temporal variation; iii. variation in court cases under different rules of evidence; iv. variation in individual participants; v. variation across social groups; and vi. linguistic-cultural variation. From a social semiotic perspective, emojis as dynamic signs have great meaning potentials, making their meanings context-dependent and interpreter-dependent. For this reason, it is suggested that legal professionals untangle and weave historical, social, cultural and legal contexts into the interpretation of an emoji’s meaning. Moreover, a probe into the contextualized configuration of emojis can offer practical insights into the interpretation of emoji-bearing texts in judicial decision-making as well as the admissibility and investigation of digital evidence in courts.

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Chapter 4. Interpreting emoji pragmatics

Cited by 26 publications

References 31 publications

The role of personality traits and engagement factors towards the use of paid stickers in personal communication messages

The role of personality traits and engagement factors towards the use of paid stickers in personal communication messages

From compensation to competition: The impact of graphicons on language use in a Chinese context

Deciphering emoji variation in courts: a social semiotic perspective

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