8 Emojis and jocular flattery in Chinese instant messaging interactions
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Jia Qiu
Abstract
While emojis are traditionally understood to be a means of expressing emotion and politeness in text-based forms of digitally-mediated communication, recent work has demonstrated that emojis play an important role in the interactional accomplishment of conversational humour as well. In this chapter, we focus on the role of emojis in the joint accomplishment of jocular flattery in multi-party instant messaging interactions in (Mandarin) Chinese. In the course of this study, we draw particular attention to how emojis are involved in different stages of performing jocular flattery, and how they are employed by participants in these sequences to accomplish particular footings with respect to instances of it. We conclude by considering the implications of our study for understanding the roles played by emojis in co-constructing conversational humour more broadly.
Abstract
While emojis are traditionally understood to be a means of expressing emotion and politeness in text-based forms of digitally-mediated communication, recent work has demonstrated that emojis play an important role in the interactional accomplishment of conversational humour as well. In this chapter, we focus on the role of emojis in the joint accomplishment of jocular flattery in multi-party instant messaging interactions in (Mandarin) Chinese. In the course of this study, we draw particular attention to how emojis are involved in different stages of performing jocular flattery, and how they are employed by participants in these sequences to accomplish particular footings with respect to instances of it. We conclude by considering the implications of our study for understanding the roles played by emojis in co-constructing conversational humour more broadly.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
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Part 1: Face-to-face interactions
- 1 A multimodal approach to children’s development of humor in family life 15
- 2 On target. On the role of eye-gaze during teases in face-to-face multiparty interaction 53
- 3 Humorous Smiling: A Reverse Cross-Validation of the Smiling Intensity Scale for the Identification of Conversational Humor 87
- 4 Alternative conceptualizations of the Smiling Intensity Scale (SIS) and their applications to the identification of humor 109
- 5 Facial gestures and laughter as a resource for negotiating humor in conversation 131
- 6 Multimodal humor in human-robot interaction 169
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Part 2: Mediated interactions
- 7 Facial expressions as multimodal markers of humor: More evidence from scripted and non-scripted interactions 209
- 8 Emojis and jocular flattery in Chinese instant messaging interactions 231
- 9 More than laughter: Multimodal humour and the negotiation of ingroup identities in mobile instant messaging interactions 263
- 10 Humour and creativity in a family of strangers on Facebook 289
- 11 “Loanword translation and corrective acts are incongruous”: Debating metapragmatic stereotypes through humorous memes 319
- Index 355
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
-
Part 1: Face-to-face interactions
- 1 A multimodal approach to children’s development of humor in family life 15
- 2 On target. On the role of eye-gaze during teases in face-to-face multiparty interaction 53
- 3 Humorous Smiling: A Reverse Cross-Validation of the Smiling Intensity Scale for the Identification of Conversational Humor 87
- 4 Alternative conceptualizations of the Smiling Intensity Scale (SIS) and their applications to the identification of humor 109
- 5 Facial gestures and laughter as a resource for negotiating humor in conversation 131
- 6 Multimodal humor in human-robot interaction 169
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Part 2: Mediated interactions
- 7 Facial expressions as multimodal markers of humor: More evidence from scripted and non-scripted interactions 209
- 8 Emojis and jocular flattery in Chinese instant messaging interactions 231
- 9 More than laughter: Multimodal humour and the negotiation of ingroup identities in mobile instant messaging interactions 263
- 10 Humour and creativity in a family of strangers on Facebook 289
- 11 “Loanword translation and corrective acts are incongruous”: Debating metapragmatic stereotypes through humorous memes 319
- Index 355
