Yiqiong Zhang

In today’s era of online communicating process, the pictorial meaning of online emoticons has gradually diminished and the symbolic meaning has become increasingly prominent, which fits the evolution of the function of symbols from initially indicating objects to conveying complex meanings, and shows that symbolic interpretation items have the potential for infinite derivation of meanings.

linguistics; emoticons; social networking; semantics; context

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