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Publication details [#65732]

Sampietro, Agnese. 2019. Emoji and rapport management in Spanish WhatsApp chats. Journal of Pragmatics 143 : 109–120.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

computer communication system | internet | politeness | speech act | stylistics

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper assays some emoji functions in WhatsApp chats written in Spanish. Emoji improve or lower diverse speech acts. Emoji aid to control the conversation, e.g. in openings and closings. Emoji also constitute a stylistic selection.