The Dark Side of a Smiley: Effects of Smiling Emoticons on Virtual First Impressions
First impressions are heavily influenced by emotional expressions such as smiles. In face-to-face contact, smiling individuals are perceived as warmer…
Emoticons
More emojis, less :) The competition for paralinguistic function in microblog writing
Many non-standard elements of ‘netspeak’ writing can be viewed as efforts to replicate the linguistic role played by nonverbal modalities…
The “Face with Tears of Joy” Emoji. A Socio-Semiotic and Multimodal Insight into a Japan-America Mash-Up
The blog site of the Oxford Dictionaries features a post dated November 16 2015, which announces that, “for the first…