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Spina, Stefania – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Emoticons play a key role in digital written interactions. Since the 1980s research has highlighted their growing relevance, as they allow to convey increasingly rich emotional, social, and pragmatic information. This article contributes to this area of research by providing an analysis of emoticons as structural markers in Twitter interactions.…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Social Media, Language Usage
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Marini, Andrea; Boewe, Anke; Caltagirone, Carlo; Carlomagno, Sergio – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2005
Narratives produced by 69 healthy Italian adults were analyzed for age-related changes of microlinguistic, macrolinguistic and informative aspects. The participants were divided into five age groups (20-24, 25-39, 40-59, 60-74, 75-84). One single-picture stimulus and two cartoon sequences were used to elicit three stories per subject. Age-related…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Cartoons