“Nice Picture Comment!” Graphicons in Facebook Comment Threads

Herring, Susan C.; Dainas, Ashley R.

doi:10.24251/hicss.2017.264

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“…Emoji 1 , like emoticons, GIFs and other 'graphicons' (graphical icons, Herring & Dainas, 2017) are often said to be useful for helping to clarify the meaning of written text (Thompson and Filik, 2016), or to 'add' meaning to it (Alshenqeeti, 2016;. Some researchers have characterised the interactional function of emoji in terms of the 'emotional work' that they perform in enhancing social relationships, and as displays of interlocutors' feelings (Riordan, 2017) or 'emotive tone' (Danesi, 2016;Kaye et al, 2016).…”

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Emoji and communicative action: The semiotics, sequence and gestural actions of ‘face covering hand’

Gibson

Huang

2018

Discourse, Context & Media

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This paper uses conversation analysis to explore the communicative functions of one emoji in a mobile reading community in China. In contrast to semiotic approaches to emoji that focus on their cultural signification, or that treat them as reflections of users' inner intensions, we analyse emoji as communication phenomena by exploring their relation to other textual actions in the production of text-talk. The emoji analysed here functioned as a laughter token, and performed specific interactional work related to laughter. We conclude that conversation analysis offers an important corrective to abstracted semiotic analysis and a useful resource for exploring the demonstrable meaning of emoji for interlocutors. However, we also emphasise the importance of capturing the process of composing messages, the challenges of dealing with the variety of forms that emoji take and their relation to gestural and other actions in face to face communication.

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Emoji and communicative action: The semiotics, sequence and gestural actions of ‘face covering hand’

Gibson

Huang

2018

Discourse, Context & Media

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“…: 8). Besides the most prevalent functions as a way of showing reactions or "tone modification" -including the clarifying of intent and hedging the illocutionary force of the utterance (Herring/Dainas 2017), which Herring has outlined earlier (Dresner/Herring 2012) -they point to the "function as conversational turns in and of themselves, conveying propositional content" (Herring/Dainas 2017: 6), and thereby they concurringly underline the linguistic importance of emojis as research objects.…”

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“…The research on emojis is a growing branch on the tree of CMC research, but it is only growing sporadically and not always discerning itself from research done on emoticons. Perhaps seeking to solve this conceptual overlap, Herring and Dainas introduce the term "graphicons" as a shorthand for emojis, emoticons, stickers, GIFs, images and videos used in social media (Herring/Dainas 2017). In their comparison of those six different types of signs, they draw attention to the emoji as the most frequent and multifunctional sign that apparently has "hit a sweet spot -they are neither too large nor too detailed" (ibid.…”

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Emojis in the Digital Writings of Young Danes

Hougaard¹,

Rathje²

2018

Jugendsprachen/Youth Languages

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This article focuses on the use of emojis by young Danes. We argue that emojis have at least three functions: as a form of guidance to understand posts and avoid misunderstandings (markers of modality and mood), as a form of guidance to help navigation (interactional markers), and as a form of embellishment expressing a sense of fun and feelings (an expressive and aesthetic function). Based on a survey (710 participants including both adolescents (N=297) and adults) and qualitative analyses of naturally occurring emojis on Facebook and Instagram, we found that young Danes aged between 10 and 19 regard emojis as belonging to the domestic/intimate sphere, promoting important features of communication such as emotions, mutual understanding, atmosphere, aesthetics and entertainment. Compared to the answers given by the adults, the young informants perceive emojis as a natural way of showing and expressing their mood, while the adults regard emojis as a secondary language, as compensation for the lack of nonverbal features in written online interaction. 86% of all the informants report that they use emojis at least once a day.

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“…Herring et Dainas dénombrent 6 formes de modalités iconiques pouvant être utilisées dans l'interaction en ligne (Herring & Dainas 2017) :…”

Section: Les Modalités Iconiques Disponibles Sur Facebookunclassified

Les modalités iconiques dans le discours médié par ordinateur : du neuf dans l’interaction ?

Schneebeli¹

2018

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“Nice Picture Comment!” Graphicons in Facebook Comment Threads

Abstract: Facebook has increasingly incorporated graphical means of communication such as emoticons, emoji, stickers, GIFs, images, and videos ('graphicons')

Cited by 90 publications

References 17 publications

Emoji and communicative action: The semiotics, sequence and gestural actions of ‘face covering hand’

Emoji and communicative action: The semiotics, sequence and gestural actions of ‘face covering hand’

Emojis in the Digital Writings of Young Danes

Les modalités iconiques dans le discours médié par ordinateur : du neuf dans l’interaction ?

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