Aug 2026· Journal für Medienlinguistik· Vol 8, pp. 126-137· 0 citations
Abstract
In this article we reflect on a sustained, multi-part myth-busting project to scaffold media discourse around emoji through the production of academic and general consumption media regarding the role of emoji in communication. This work, which commenced in 2017, centred around building an argument that emoji use with text is the equivalent of gesture with speech That is, emoji and text contribute differently to building up a richer multimodal form of communication, an analogy drawing on the extensive literature from the field of Gesture Studies. This work was undertaken as part of our ongoing commitment to communicating about linguistics to general audiences, using our understanding of linguistics to do this work effectively, a practice known as Linguistics Communication (or LingComm, analogous to SciComm). This paper highlights specifically how our knowledge of linguistics practice (such as discourse analysis and metaphor design) and related communications disciplines (debunking in psychology) enriched our capacity to communicate about emoji for a variety of audiences.
The passive voice in Chinese is the focus of extensive research seeking to understand its diverse discourse functions. Adopting a corpus-assisted approach, this paper brings attention to an underexplored category of passives — Chinese lexical passive constructions (LPCs) — and analyzes the semantic and pragmatic as...
Laura Locatelli· International Journal of Cor...· 0 citations
This study examines the patterned formation and interactional functions of
amn
-series (e.g.,
bamn
,
samn
,
tamn
) in contemporary Chinese social media. Drawing on a corpus of 2,095 tokens from Weibo, the analysis investigates morpho-phonological patterning, analogy-based semantic anchoring, and cross-script...
Jianxin Yang, Yililan Wang· Discourse & Communicatio...· 0 citations
The results show that gesture alone is predictive of the intended referent and that multimodal fusion is most beneficial when the transcript-based model is uncertain, and that training-only alignment of learned representations with the referent image further improves the fusion model performance.
E. Ghaleb, Hugh Mee Wong, Kristina Kobrock· 1 citation
It is argued that feedback must extend beyond error correction to address communicative effectiveness, design, and intermodal coherence (e.g., image-text alignment) and proposed a research agenda that calls for longitudinal investigation of AI-mediated and multimodal feedback ecologies.
Ana Oskoz, Idoia Elola· Studies in Second Language L...· 0 citations
This study offers a contrastive analysis of the speech act of thanking in English and Vietnamese, examining it on three planes: semantic content, pragmatic strategy, and cultural motivation. Thanking is treated as an expressive speech act in the sense of Austin (1962) and Searle (1975), through which the speaker convey...
D. Thuy· International Journal of Sci...· 0 citations
