Book contents
- Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage
- Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- 1 Social Media Paralanguage and Emoji
- 2 Technical Dimensions
- 3 Modelling Emoji–Text Relations
- 4 Emoji Synchronising with Textual Meaning
- 5 Emoji Concurring with Ideational Meaning
- 6 Emoji Resonating with Interpersonal Meaning
- 7 Dialogic Affiliation
- 8 Communing Affiliation: The Role of Emoji in Communing around Bonds
- 9 Beyond Emoji–Text Relations
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Glossary
- Index
5 - Emoji Concurring with Ideational Meaning
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2024
- Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage
- Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- 1 Social Media Paralanguage and Emoji
- 2 Technical Dimensions
- 3 Modelling Emoji–Text Relations
- 4 Emoji Synchronising with Textual Meaning
- 5 Emoji Concurring with Ideational Meaning
- 6 Emoji Resonating with Interpersonal Meaning
- 7 Dialogic Affiliation
- 8 Communing Affiliation: The Role of Emoji in Communing around Bonds
- 9 Beyond Emoji–Text Relations
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the ideational function of emoji as they concur with language to construe experience as items and activities in social media posts. The chapter details a system network for modelling ideational concurrence. This network defines two main kinds of relations: depiction and embellishment. Depiction is where emoji congruently illustrate their co-text or integrate themselves into the ideational structure of the post. Embellishment, on the other hand, is where emoji make less congruent meanings by either metaphorising through figurative meanings or emblematising through symbols that activate preconfigured meanings for particular communities. The chapter draws on the discourse semantic system of ideation introduced in Chapter 3 to understand the concurrence of emoji and linguistic sequences, figures, and elements.
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- Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage , pp. 88 - 109Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024