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Sarcasm and emoticons: comprehension and emotional impact by Filik, Ruth, Turcan, Alexandra, Thompson, Dominic, Harvey, Nicole, Davies, Harriet, Turner, Amelia

Subjects: “…Language comprehension; Emotion; Figurative language; Sarcasm; Emoticons…”
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Sarcasm in written communication: emoticons are efficient markers of intention by Thompson, Dominic, Filik, Ruth

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Relevance of emoticons in computer-mediated communication contexts: an overview by Ahmed Jibril, Tanimu, Abdullah, Mardziah Hayati

“…Equally, smileys or emoticons were innovated in 1982, and today the genre has attained a substantial patronage in various aspects of computer-mediated communication (CMC). …”
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Relationships between emoticon usage and recipient groups in students’ text messages by Teh, Phoey Lee *, Ooi, Pei Boon *, Gill, C. M. H. D.*

“…Emoticons are pictographic representations of facial expressions that are used to convey emotions in text messages and other similar methods of communication. …”
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Emotional responses to irony and emoticons in written language: evidence from EDA and facial EMG by Thompson, Dominic, Mackenzie, Ian G., Leuthold, Hartmut, Filik, Ruth

“…Results showed higher arousal, reduced frowning, and enhanced smiling for messages with rather than without an emoticon, suggesting that emoticons increase positive emotions. …”
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Accentuating illocutionary forces: emoticons as speech act realization strategies in a multicultural online communication environment by Azianura Hani Shaari

“…The global acceptance of emoticons has acknowledged the development of digital symbols in a communication setting when language alone can become a barrier in expressing certain intentions and feelings. …”
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Seven- to 11-year-olds’ developing ability to recognize natural facial expressions of basic emotions by Lang, Kathleen, Anthoney, Laura, Mitchell, Peter

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A New Model for Cultural-Based Emoticon in Distributed Collective Interaction via CMC by Mohd Zukhi, Mohd Zhafri, Hussain, Azham, Husni, Husniza

“…Emoticons have become the prominent language, especially in distributed collective interaction via computer mediated communication.This is because emoticons are capable to avoid misunderstanding of the message content, save the attention to optimum and improved the communications among different native speakers.However, as emoticons been widely used in distributed collective interaction where the participants may come from different geography and culture, the study of emoticons in cultural perspective are still less.Besides that, there are also demand for the cultural based emoticons to be developed particularly for culture that are different from the culture of developer.Since emoticons are crucial in global communication, culture should be one of the extensively research aspect in distributed collective interaction. …”
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A gender based analysis of language use and self-presentation on Facebook / Hou Yunjuan by Hou, Yunjuan

“…With respect to self-presentation, the finding revealed that males and females presented themselves more similarly except in the aspect of the emoticon use. Communication is a highly important element in relationship establishment especially between males and females. …”
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Visualization of public sentiment from crime news in social media / Syairah Ibrahim by Ibrahim, Syairah

“…Further approaches are needed as there are numerous ways for public to express their emotions such as using an emoticon or through text. Hence, many research have been done in analysing sentiments using languages such as English, Chinese, and Arabic. …”
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eLingua : Issue 1 : July 2020 / Academy of Language Studies by Chone, Liaw Shun, Kudus, Nazima Versay, Tazijan, Farina Nozakiah, Aboo Bakar, Rofiza, Yih, Mah Boon, Affendy Lee, Noor Azli, Mohd Amin, Noraziah, Zulkifli, Che Nooryohana, Razali, Wan Noorli, Fen, Ong Sheau, Mohd Yusof, Noor Laili, Giap, Lim Soo

“…Perayaan hantu (Hungry ghost festival) 13. Emoticon as a communicator 14. Penggunaan Nombor-nombor dalam Pembentukkan Kata Masa Bahasa Mandarin 15. …”
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A culturicon design model for communication across culture by Mohd Zhafri, Mohd Zukhi

“…Emoticons are important in Computer-Mediated Communication due to its capability to express emotions/actions without face-to-face meeting. …”
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Expression of courtesy in whatsapp smiley usage among undergraduates by Noorilyana, Hashim

“…Thus, this study determines the relationship between emoticons literacy; emotions and expression of courtesy, effect between emoticons literacy; emotions and expression of courtesy, and differences of demographic factors towards an expression of courtesy in WhatsApp smiley usage. …”
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Speech to text with emoji by Tong, Kah Pau

“…With our current technology, we can add emoticons to our text by choosing it manually or by saying the emoticons' names using speech recognition technology. …”
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Online interpersonal relationship strategies between same gender among Malaysian chatters by Bolong, Jusang, Waheed, Moniza

“…The results show that male IRC users interact with one another by using only one strategy, which is the strategy to create similar values/ understanding of the meaning of emoticons. When female IRC users interact with one another, they use three main strategies; strategy of relationship continuity through e-mail, strategy to create similar values/ understanding of the meaning of emoticons, and strategy of satisfaction fulfilment of the chat buddy. …”
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A linguistic and non-linguistic analysis of gender differece in writing style inadolescent blogs by Hii, Angeline Hui Wen

“…The study also discovered that textual emoticons were used more frequently as compared to graphical icons. …”
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The potentials of emoji in visual communication / Noorlida Daud and Ahmad Zamzuri Mohamad Ali by Noorlida, Daud, Ahmad Zamzuri, Mohamad Ali

“…Emojis are developed from emoticons and commonly used to convey emotion in online communication. …”
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Culturicon design model: a case of designer’s validation process by Mohd Zhafri Mohd Zukhi, Husniza Husni, Azham Hussain

“…As more people own smartphones, using visual elements like emoticons, emojis, and stickers in mobile messaging applications has become popular. …”
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SmilieFace: developing and evaluating an affective Facebook Application by Hengky, Marriott, Andrew, McMeekin, David

“…Plain text messages between users, even if augmented with appropriate smilie icons or emoticons, often cause misunderstanding. Interaction between users on SNSs, such as Facebook may benefit by being able to use an emotional or affective based communication system. …”
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Gender differences in the typographical features used in the text messaging of young Jordanian undergraduates by Al Rousan, Rafat M., Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima, Christopher, Anne Althea

“…This paper explores gender differences in the typographical features used in the text messaging of young Jordanian undergraduates.Lakoff’s (1975) and Tannen’s (1990) ideas in face-to-face communication, and Herring’s (1994) ideas in computer-mediated communication were taken into consideration.The data were collected from 160 first-year Jordanian undergraduates.Open-ended questionnaires, user diaries, and semi-structured face-to-face interviews were used to collect data.A total of 2,054 text messages were analyzed qualitatively.The data were classified under four typographical features : punctuation, letter and number homophones, phonetic spelling, and emoticons.The analysis reveals that there are gender differences in the text messaging of young Jordanian undergraduates with respect to the use of typographical features.The findings from this study support previous findings about gender differences in the use of language in face-to-face communication and in computer-mediated communication.…”
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