Sarcasm, the smiling poop, and E-discourse aggressiveness: getting far too emotional with emojis

Wagner, Anne; Marusek, Sarah; Yu, Wei

doi:10.1080/10350330.2020.1731151

Cited by 19 publications

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“…Research shows that both facial (Haugland 2021; Kaye, Wall, and Malone 2016; Lo 2008) and nonfacial emojis (Hu et al 2017; Riordan 2017; Yang et al 2022) can indicate emotional tone or expression and reduce the ambiguity of a message (Tauch and Kanjo 2016). Yet, emojis are highly contextually dependent; their meanings often diverge from the original meanings as individuals interact through digital technologies (Wagner, Marusek, and Yu 2020).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Power of a 😉: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters

Groggel

2023

Symbolic Interaction

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Digital technology has long provided new ways of initiating romantic relationships as people communicate through text messages, social media, and dating applications. Emojis have been widely adopted as a means of conveying nonverbal cues in digital communication. However, what role do platform‐provided social cues, such as emojis, play in fostering or impeding clear communication and shared romantic expectations from a flirtatious text message conversation? In this study, 713 college students were randomly assigned to read a Snapchat conversation with or without emojis and, they were subsequently asked to infer the characters' thoughts and feelings, clarity of the characters' intentions, and indicate their own discomfort with receiving a similar Snapchat message. The results showed that emojis increase the clarity of the main character's intentions. Moreover, the participants' cognitive efforts, the extent to which they were emotionally affected by the conversation, and the presence of emojis reduced comfort level with receiving a similar Snapchat message. These findings suggest that emojis provide clarity to romantic conversations, which can amplify the interpersonal discomfort of receiving text‐based sexual overtures.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Power of a 😉: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters

Groggel

2023

Symbolic Interaction

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“…(Li & Yang, 2018). Thus, the function of the fire emoji turns positive into an electronic symbol that can represent the idol's daily activities and mood conditions (Wagner, Marusek & Yu, 2020).…”

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Functions of Using Emoji in Japanese Sentences in Twitter

Dewanty¹,

Farisya²

2022

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)

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Emoji comes from a Japanese word, literally meaning "image letter", which is a small digital image or pictorial symbol that represents something, feeling, or concept used in text messages and other electronic communications. This study aims to describe the role and function of emojis used by Japanese idols as Japanese-language Twitter users. This study relied on data sourced from Twitter accounts of Japanese idols who use Twitter to convey messages/news to fans, which amounted to 368 tweets, and which were posted within 1 month. 96 types of emoji were classified into 4 roles and functions: Pictograms (symbols that represent concrete objects), Ideograms (symbols that represent concepts or ideas about something), Emoticons (symbols that represent feelings), and Phatic expressions (expressions to establish or maintain contact between the communicator and the communicant). The analysis shows that the roles and functions ranking of emojis which were found include (1) Phatic expressions, (2) Emoticon, (3) Ideograms, and (3) Pictograms. The top 3 most frequent emojis were ✨(Glitter/Shiny), 🙏🏼 (Praying Hands) and 🔥 (Fire). Through their messages, news, and daily activities, Japanese idols most often use emojis as an expression to establish/maintain contact between idols and their fans.

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“…Emojis are creative, convenient, and efficient substitutes for conveying non-textual information in an online setting. [7,8] Context is the key to analyze and interpret emojis [9]. The meaning of an emoji relies on the accompanied text if it exists.…”

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Pragmatic Functions of Emoji on Chinese Social Media

Zeng¹

2023

BCPEP

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Emojis, expressive symbols on social media, gained popularity due to its convenience and versatility. This paper explores the pragmatic functions of four specific emojis (doge, smile, funny face, love) from comments on Bilibili and Weibo. A corpus of 229 comments is created through manual collection and crawler, and annotated according to the intext functions of the emojis. The results show that the four emojis are mainly used as “external tonal complements” and used for friendliness or joking, which can be explained by the renderings of the emojis. Furthermore, the friendly-looking love emoji and smile emoji also have occasional uses for sarcasm. Emojis used mainly for joking have softening uses, while emojis used mainly for friendliness are found to have sarcastic uses instead of softening uses. A possible cause of these negative uses is the censorship in Chinese social media. The research serves as a basis for Chinese emoji uses research of greater scale and provides insight for sentiment analysis with emojis.

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Sarcasm, the smiling poop, and E-discourse aggressiveness: getting far too emotional with emojis

Cited by 19 publications

References 7 publications

The Power of a 😉: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters

The Power of a 😉: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters

Functions of Using Emoji in Japanese Sentences in Twitter

Pragmatic Functions of Emoji on Chinese Social Media

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