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Chapter 10. A study on how cultural and gender parameters affect emoticon distribution, usage and frequency in American and Japanese online discourse
Abstract
This study attempts to understand how cultural and gender parameters affect emoticon distribution, usage and frequency in American and Japanese online discourse. From a corpus of American and Japanese personal blog comments of over 45,000 sentences and data from interviews with bloggers, emoticon function, usage and frequency were compared across gender and cross-culturally. In addition, an examination of how emoticons interact with the linguistic text and other unconventional means of communication such as unconventional phonetic spelling, was also given consideration.
Abstract
This study attempts to understand how cultural and gender parameters affect emoticon distribution, usage and frequency in American and Japanese online discourse. From a corpus of American and Japanese personal blog comments of over 45,000 sentences and data from interviews with bloggers, emoticon function, usage and frequency were compared across gender and cross-culturally. In addition, an examination of how emoticons interact with the linguistic text and other unconventional means of communication such as unconventional phonetic spelling, was also given consideration.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Theoretical and methodological perspectives
- Chapter 1. Expanding pragmatics 27
- Chapter 2. Computer-mediated discourse in context 47
- Chapter 3. Cyberpragmatics in the age of locative media 75
- Chapter 4. Interpreting emoji pragmatics 107
- Chapter 5. Speech acts and the dissemination of knowledge in social networks 145
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Part II. The discursive management of self on the internet
- Chapter 6. Humour and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile status 175
- Chapter 7. Inviting a purchase 207
- Chapter 8. Online nicks, impoliteness, and Jewish identity in Israeli Russian conflict discourse 235
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Part III. Pragmatics of internet-mediated texts
- Chapter 9. Candidates’ use of Twitter during the 2016 Austrian presidential campaign 259
- Chapter 10. A study on how cultural and gender parameters affect emoticon distribution, usage and frequency in American and Japanese online discourse 287
- Chapter 11. Migration through the English-Greek translated press 321
- Name index 343
- Subject index 347
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Theoretical and methodological perspectives
- Chapter 1. Expanding pragmatics 27
- Chapter 2. Computer-mediated discourse in context 47
- Chapter 3. Cyberpragmatics in the age of locative media 75
- Chapter 4. Interpreting emoji pragmatics 107
- Chapter 5. Speech acts and the dissemination of knowledge in social networks 145
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Part II. The discursive management of self on the internet
- Chapter 6. Humour and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile status 175
- Chapter 7. Inviting a purchase 207
- Chapter 8. Online nicks, impoliteness, and Jewish identity in Israeli Russian conflict discourse 235
-
Part III. Pragmatics of internet-mediated texts
- Chapter 9. Candidates’ use of Twitter during the 2016 Austrian presidential campaign 259
- Chapter 10. A study on how cultural and gender parameters affect emoticon distribution, usage and frequency in American and Japanese online discourse 287
- Chapter 11. Migration through the English-Greek translated press 321
- Name index 343
- Subject index 347
