Emoji Pragmatics

by Francisco Yus

Emoji is everywhere--on messaging apps, social networking sites, and even in offline media like billboards, films, and printed ads. While there is a substantial existing bibliography on emojis, it often fails to address their functions and interpretations in purely pragmatic terms, specifically focusing on their impact on inferential strategies for both the emojis themselves and accompanying texts. Existing books on this topic tend to focus on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031737229
• ISBN13: 9783031737220
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 419 Pages