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Extension of ICDP-4 Abstract Submission Deadline New deadline for ICDP-4 abstract submission: 12 September 2025.

The new ICDP-4 abstract submission deadline is 12 September 2025.
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ICDP-4 Panel on “The Pragmatics of Online Public Shaming” ICDP-4 special panel organized by Pilar Blitvich Garces-Conejos and Michael Haugh

ICDP-4 Panel on “The Pragmatics of Online Public Shaming” co-organized by Pilar Blitvich Garces-Conejos and Michael Haugh. To submit an abstract, please send a document of no more than 300 words to michael.haugh@uq.edu.au before 12 September 2025. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/oNTkQYdfH6...

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Lightening the mood with visual humor | John Benjamins Abstract Large, colorful, and dynamic, GIFs are a staple of computer-mediated communication and have been hypothesized to perform similar discursive functions to other graphicons (e.g., emoticons, emo...

Lightening the mood with visual humor: The pragmatic functions of GIFs

Author(s): Ashley R. Dainas
Source: Internet Pragmatics
Available online: 05 August 2025
DOI: doi.org/10.1075/ip.0...

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Face-work on Chinese social media | John Benjamins Abstract Emojis play a crucial role in facilitating face-work in online communication. While studies have examined the illocutionary effects of emojis on their co-text in online face management, it re...

Face-work on Chinese social media: Functional interactions between the Doge emoji and verbal text

Author(s): Yanmin Wu and Yiqiong Zhang
Source: Internet Pragmatics
Available online: 29 July 2025
DOI: doi.org/10.1075/ip.0...

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“Dump her!”
Stancetaking in multimodal replies to ‘Am I the Asshole?’ Twitter posts

Author(s): Elizabeth Marsden and Alba Milà-Garcia
Source: Internet Pragmatics
Available online: 17 July 2025
DOI: doi.org/10.1075/ip.0...

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“Should I text or should I shoot?” | John Benjamins Abstract Screenshots have become a ubiquitous form of visual communication in current digital discourse. Despite similarities to photographs, screenshots differ in the mechanical nature of their produ...

OA: “Should I text or should I shoot?”
Exploring the use and interpretation of screenshots in mobile instant messaging interactions

Author(s): Agnese Sampietro
Source: Internet Pragmatics
Available online: 17 July 2025
DOI: doi.org/10.1075/ip.0...

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The 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics
Dates: 17-19 October 2025
Theme: Discourse Pragmatics, Online Interaction, and the Age of AI
Registration Fees: Free
Venues: Zoom; Tencent/VooV Meeting (online)
For more information, please visit：http://ywxy.zisu.edu.cn/info/1055/6835.htm

13.07.2025 14:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pragmatic approaches to visual discourses in digital interactions

Author(s): Agnese Sampietro and Carmen Pérez-Sabater
Source: Internet Pragmatics
Available online: 03 June 2025
DOI: doi.org/10.1075/ip.0...

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Striking the balance between friendliness and professionality | John Benjamins Abstract Research shows that emoji are not only used to express emotions but also to enhance the illocutionary force of messages or build social rapport (Pérez-Sabater 2019; Sampietro 2019; Alfano et ...

Striking the balance between friendliness and professionality: Pragmatic uses and functions of emoji by Spanish MPs on Twitter/X bios

Author(s): Carmen Maíz-Arévalo
Source: Internet Pragmatics
Available online: 11 July 2025
DOI: doi.org/10.1075/ip.0...

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Kisses and peaches | John Benjamins Abstract Emojis are mentioned in online child sexual grooming (OCSG) studies. However, research on such emojis in OCSG contexts is still in its infancy. In this investigation, we report the findings o...

Kisses and peaches: A pragmatic perspective on how emojis are used by online child sexual groomers

Author(s): Andrea García-Montes
Source: Internet Pragmatics
Available online: 11 July 2025
DOI: doi.org/10.1075/ip.0...

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“Emojis are grown-up stuff” | John Benjamins Abstract This study delves into the use of graphicons, their frequency and their pragmatic functions in a corpus formed of 353,128 words/69,646 private texts on WhatsApp exchanged by adult users and t...

“Emojis are grown-up stuff”: Analysing graphical elements in digital relational contexts
Author(s): Carmen Pérez-Sabater
Source: Internet Pragmatics
Available online: 11 July 2025
DOI: doi.org/10.1075/ip.0...

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