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Jiyea Park – Qualitative Research Journal, 2024
Purpose: This study draws on the author's experiences building rapport through online chat for data collection for the author's doctoral dissertation. The author contacted ten Korean women via online chat to recruit and faced the most challenging situation; building rapport. As the Millennial generation is known as being tech-savvy or digital…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Relationship, Figurative Language, Semiotics
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Gerald Eliniongoze Kimambo – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
The main argument of this paper is that the Virtual Linguistic Landscape (VLL) of advertising allows the utilisation of persuasion strategies that transcend the traditional separation of named languages to produce the maximum effect on potential customers. The paper challenges the segregational view of language, which assumes that communication…
Descriptors: Advertising, Motor Vehicles, Social Media, Semiotics
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Mei-Ya Liang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This article examines linguaculturally diverse university students' affective translingual practices of using emojis and languages in computer-mediated communication. Research studies have investigated the sociopragmatic uses of emojis from the perspectives of social semiotics, language socialisation, and translingual practices. This study expands…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Computer Mediated Communication, Semiotics, Socialization
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Lee, Helen; Hampel, Regine – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
The theorization of how multimodal learning intersects with online teaching environments has emerged as a key research area in relationship to the creation of opportunities for L2 online interaction. However, there are few studies which have examined how cross-cultural dyads harness and orchestrate semiotic resources across mobile technologies…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Handheld Devices, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alshenqeeti, Hamza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The increasing use of emojis, digital images that can represent a word or feeling in a text or email, and the fact that they can be strung together to create a sentence with real and full meaning raises the question of whether they are creating a new language amongst technologically savvy youth, or devaluing existing language. There is however a…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Visual Aids, Language Usage, Sociolinguistics
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Wigham, Ciara R.; Vidal, Julie – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper focuses on corrective feedback and examines how trainee-teachers use different semiotic resources to soften feedback sequences during synchronous online interactions. The ISMAEL corpus of webconferencing-supported L2 interactions in French provided data for this qualitative study. Using multimodal transcriptions, the analysis describes…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Videoconferencing, Interaction, Error Correction