Discourse anaphoricity and first-person indexicality in emoji resolution

Grosz, Patrick Georg; Kaiser, Elsi; Pierini, Francesco

doi:10.18148/sub/2021.v25i0.941

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“…Pierini aims to support the semantics of emoji from its grammar. He makes this point in another paper published with Grosz and Kaiser (2021): they want to take initial steps towards a formal semantic analysis of emoji and their relation to the text that they accompany. They make a first basic distinction: on the one hand, face emoji (which incorporate indexicality in the first person); on the other hand, activity emoji (which incorporate anaphoricity).…”

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“…In this sense, syntax 2 Pierini's paper "Emojis and gestures: a new typology" (2021) is not indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Nor is another of his papers mentioned in this review: "Discourse anaphoricity and first-person indexicality in emoji resolution," by Grosz, Kaiser and Pierini (2021). Even so, we consider it relevant to include them because they continue the path opened by the understanding of emoji as gesture.…”

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The study of emoji linguistic behaviour: an examination of the theses raised (and not raised) in the academic literature

Nieto

2023

Communication & Society

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This bibliographic review of academic research on emoji reveals how the bulk of studies accepts it as a language but do not develop detailed linguistic analysis that could support this claim: they accept the clues provided by the initial studies, as if the scientific community had already reached such a consensus. However, the truth is that the fields in which emoji have generated the greatest academic interest (computer science, psychology and cognitive science) have considered the study of their linguistic nature a minor issue. Therefore, research on emoji has been growing over the years, widening the scope of its contributions, but with a common core made up of few basic notions about its linguistic condition that has important blind spots, in which Linguistics hasn’t done (generally) its work to place it in this new context for communication that the digital environments represent, despite the supports provided by multimodality and visual language theory. From these two disciplines, some authors have boldly suggested the emoji’s status as a gesture. However, to analyse its linguistic nature and behaviour, it is more accurate to understand the emoji, not as a gesture, but as a simplified representation of a gesture, without the unique features that a personal gesture has. The emoji seems to be the tool that, with fewer resources, best ensures that the interlocutor can understand the intentionality with which the sender has written the message.

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The study of emoji linguistic behaviour: an examination of the theses raised (and not raised) in the academic literature

Nieto

2023

Communication & Society

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“…We acknowledge that our focus has been on cases where linguistic and pictorial information are separate (though occurring in mixed sequences). In the future, we would like to extend our analysis to deal with linguistic information embedded in pictures (such as speech bubbles, e.g., Maier (2019)) or pictorial information embedded in natural language such as emojis, e.g., Maier (2020); Grosz et al (2021).…”

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“…28 Indeed, the idea that discrete packets of information are related to complex structures, going beyond the sum of the packets, is not intrinsically tied to linguistic discourse. For example, Cumming et al (2017) explore the role that coherence relations play in the interpretation of More recently, Newton-Haynes and Altshuler (2019) have explored the coherence structure of ballet mime, while Grosz et al (2021) have motivated a semantics of emoji by first considering the sort of coherence relations that they allow when mixed with language. Building on this research programme, we suggest to use the same vocabulary of coherence relations in linguistic and pictorial discourse.…”

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Super Pragmatics of (linguistic-)pictorial discourse

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Altshuler

2023

Linguist and Philos

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Recent advances in the Super Linguistics of pictures have laid the Super Semantic foundation for modelling the phenomena of narrative sequencing and co-reference in pictorial and mixed linguistic-pictorial discourses. We take up the question of how one arrives at the pragmatic interpretations of such discourses. In particular, we offer an analysis of: (i) the discourse composition problem: how to represent the joint meaning of a multi-picture discourse, (ii) observed differences in narrative sequencing in prima facie equivalent linguistic vs pictorial discourses, and (iii) the phenomenon of co-referencing across pictures. We extend Segmented Discourse Representation Theory to spell out a formal Super Pragmatics that applies to linguistic, pictorial and mixed discourses, while respecting the particular ‘genius’ of either medium and computing their distinctive pragmatic interpretations.

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A semantics of face emoji in discourse

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Greenberg

Leon

et al. 2023

Linguist and Philos

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This paper presents an analysis of face emoji (disc-shaped pictograms with stylized facial expressions) that accompany written text. We propose that there is a use of face emoji in which they comment on a target proposition expressed by the accompanying text, as opposed to making an independent contribution to discourse. Focusing on positively valenced and negatively valenced emoji (which we gloss as happy and unhappy, respectively), we argue that the emoji comment on how the target proposition bears on a contextually provided discourse value endorsed by the author. Discourse values embody what an author desires, aspires to, wishes for, or hopes for. Our analysis derives a range of non-trivial generalizations, including (i) ordering restrictions with regards to the placement of emoji and text, (ii) cases of apparent mixed emotions, and (iii) cases where the lexical content of the accompanying text influences the acceptability of a face emoji.

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Discourse anaphoricity and first-person indexicality in emoji resolution

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The study of emoji linguistic behaviour: an examination of the theses raised (and not raised) in the academic literature

The study of emoji linguistic behaviour: an examination of the theses raised (and not raised) in the academic literature

Super Pragmatics of (linguistic-)pictorial discourse

A semantics of face emoji in discourse

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