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. Emoji Pragmatics. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. ix + 446 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-73722-0 (hbk) / 978-3-031-73723-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73723-7
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