35.1633, FYI: DiscoMatiX online, June 11th, 16:00 CEST: Tatjana Scheffler, "Experimental Approaches to the Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis"

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Subject: 35.1633, FYI: DiscoMatiX online, June 11th, 16:00 CEST: Tatjana Scheffler, "Experimental Approaches to the Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis"

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Date: 03-Jun-2024
From: Clare Patterson [cpatters at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: DiscoMatiX online, June 11th, 16:00 CEST: Tatjana Scheffler, "Experimental Approaches to the Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis"


DiscoMatiX is pleased to announce the final meeting in our current
series. Please join us on 11.6.24 at 16:00 CEST on Zoom, when Tatjana
Scheffler (Ruhr University Bochum) will give a short talk entitled
“Experimental Approaches to the Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis”
(abstract below).  The talk will be followed by a 20 minute
discussion. To join the meeting, please send an email to
discomatix.group at gmail.com and we will send you the Zoom link.

DiscoMatiX is an interest group for anyone interested in Discourse and
pragMatics using eXperimental approaches, with the aim of exchanging
ideas to critically assess theoretical frameworks and share best
practice for experimental work. You can find further information on
our website: https://discomatix.github.io

Abstract:
Emojis are frequently used in digital communication: some estimates
state that about every second chat message contains an emoji. This,
together with the fact that they have replaced a range of other
non-standard features of online writing, indicates that emojis fill a
linguistic gap and carry important semantic and pragmatic information.
Recently, linguists have started to address the specific semantic and
pragmatic role of emojis not only theoretically and based on corpus
data, but also experimentally. In the talk, I will present recent
research we have carried out jointly with collaborators, investigating
the meaning of different types of emojis using rating studies, but
also self-paced reading and free text questions.

In particular, I will report recent results on deriving semantic norms
for face emojis (from four language communities) from human
participants, and testing the subtle meaning differences between
emojis that look visually similar. In this experiment, we compared
emoji pairs with a visual difference that either does or does not
correspond to a difference in human facial expressions according to an
adaptation of the Facial Action Coding System. Our results show that
the small differences between emoji pairs are meaningful in all pairs
whether or not they correspond to human facial differences. This
supports a lexicalist approach to emoji semantics, which treats face
emojis as conventionalized signals rather than mere pictures of faces.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics




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