Agnese Sampietro

Emoji and rapport management in Spanish WhatsApp chats

Journal of Pragmatics |
Emoji are a set of pictographs available on several electronic platforms and applications, which are gradually replacing emoticons (sequences of punctuation marks...

Emojis and the performance of humour in electronic-mediated everyday conversation: a study of a corpus of WhatsApp chats

Internet Pragmatics |
Emojis are little pictographs commonly added to electronic messages on several socialmedia and platforms. Besides being considered as a way...

Exploring the punctuating effect of emoji in Spanish WhatsApp chats

Universidad the Chile |
Since the early days of the internet, researchers have been interested in the distinctive use of language in digital settings....

Use and interpretation of emoji in electronic-mediated communication: A survey

Visual Communication Quarterly |
Among the pictorial representations that have succeeded in electronic-mediated communication (EMC), the rise of emoji is of special interest, as...

“❤️ is in the air”: la expansión de la imagen del corazón en el paisaje urbano y digital contemporáneo

Tonos Digital, 42, 2022 |
The image of the heart regularly appears in our daily lives: it decorates multiple everyday objects, such as clothing, logos,...

Do you kiss when you text? Cross-cultural differences in the use of the kissing emojis in three WhatsApp corpora

Intercultural Pragmatics |
Emojis are pictographs added to messages on social media and websites. Researchers have observed that emojis representing kissing faces are...

Los emojis en la prensa y la publicidad: análisis y propuestas pedagógicas

SIBA, Monograph 5 |
This paper presents a multidisciplinary approach to emoji, small colorful pictograms widely used in text messages, social networks and websites....

Cómo hacer palabras con emojis: sustitución y enfatización visual de vocablos en WhatsApp

Revista de Estudios sobre el Discurso Digital, 2 |
This paper studies a very particular use of emojis on WhatsApp: the substitution or reproduction of a term by means...