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Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 11:40:09
From: Agnese Sampietro [agnese.sampietro at uv.es]
Subject: Emoticonos y emojis. Análisis de su historia, difusión y uso en la comunicación digital actual

 
Institution: Universitat de València 
Program: Doctoral program in Linguistics and Literature 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2016 

Author: Agnese Sampietro

Dissertation Title: Emoticonos y emojis. Análisis de su historia, difusión y
uso en la comunicación digital actual 

Dissertation URL:  http://roderic.uv.es/handle/10550/53873

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
Ricardo Morant

Dissertation Abstract:

Emoticons are schematic facial expressions or little pictographs, which are
added to electronic messages. Following a complete review of the literature on
Computer-Mediated Communication and emoticons, this dissertation analyses the
history of emoticons, their typologies and discusses their current spread. The
empirical part of this doctoral work is based on an exploratory survey and the
analysis of a corpus. The survey was answered by a convenience sample of 226
people. It considered some understudied aspects in research on emoticons, as
the settings in which emoticons are mostly used, the most recurring contexts
in which they appear and the possible reasons for the current success of
emoji. The survey also investigated the agreement of respondents regarding the
meaning they would attribute to a set of 19 graphical emoticons, in order to
assess the interpretation of these pictographs and the emergence of a
conventional meanings. The corpus is composed by a sample of WhatsApp chats.
This is a popular instant messaging application for smartphones, which is
really popular in Spain. The methodology for the corpus analysis integrates
two different approaches: on one hand, Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis
(Herring, 2004), consisting in applying linguistic methods to online corpora,
and social semiotics (Kress & Van Leeuwen, 2006), a recent perspective that
analyses human communication considering non-linguistic materials, too (Adami,
2016; Jewitt, 2009). Results confirm the popularity of emoji, the preference
for the traditional yellow faces and a clear preference for the use of
emoticons in informal registers and positive contexts. From an intersemiotic
point of view, the relationship between text and images is widely metonymic.
The functions of emoticons may be varied (politeness, enhancement of the
message, signaling informality, replacing words, managing turn-taking, etc.).
Their use seldom provoke misunderstandings. Moreover, the dissertation
considered social and cultural aspects related to the use and spread of
emoticons, WhatApp and the current digital culture.




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