Most of the pragmatics literature has focused on words and utterances, alongside means to exchange information between interlocutors, either explicitly (explicatures) or by means of implicatures (implicated conclusions) with the aid of contextual information (implicated premises). Nonverbal communication has proved essential to guide the addressee in the correct inferential direction so that this exchange of information can become effective. In this sense, and as already emphasised before in this book, the literature on text-based interactions shows that different strategies, including letter repetition, capitalisation and creative use of punctuation marks (for vocal nonverbal communication) along with the utilisation of emojis, GIFs and stickers (for visual nonverbal communication), are pervasively resorted to by users because they intuitively feel that plain typed text is not expressive enough to convey all the propositional and non-propositional information that they aim to make mutually manifest to other messaging users (see Yus 2014b). As Evans (2015) summarises, emojis mainly serve to support and enhance the meaning conveyed by text in a digital message, much like intonation and gesture endow face-to-face situations with additional information. Although this role can hardly be denied, I expect to provide sufficient evidence in this book to claim that an emoji pragmatics entails far more than this “compensating role” for emojis.

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Pragmatics of Verbal Content vs. Pragmatics of Emoji

  • Francisco Yus

摘要

Most of the pragmatics literature has focused on words and utterances, alongside means to exchange information between interlocutors, either explicitly (explicatures) or by means of implicatures (implicated conclusions) with the aid of contextual information (implicated premises). Nonverbal communication has proved essential to guide the addressee in the correct inferential direction so that this exchange of information can become effective. In this sense, and as already emphasised before in this book, the literature on text-based interactions shows that different strategies, including letter repetition, capitalisation and creative use of punctuation marks (for vocal nonverbal communication) along with the utilisation of emojis, GIFs and stickers (for visual nonverbal communication), are pervasively resorted to by users because they intuitively feel that plain typed text is not expressive enough to convey all the propositional and non-propositional information that they aim to make mutually manifest to other messaging users (see Yus 2014b). As Evans (2015) summarises, emojis mainly serve to support and enhance the meaning conveyed by text in a digital message, much like intonation and gesture endow face-to-face situations with additional information. Although this role can hardly be denied, I expect to provide sufficient evidence in this book to claim that an emoji pragmatics entails far more than this “compensating role” for emojis.