The Add-Ons of Verbal Emoticons Into Facebook Walls: Categories, Locations, and Pragmatic Functions
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Categories, Facebook Statuses and Wall Posts, Locations, Pragmatic Functions, Verbal EmoticonsAbstract
Facebook (FB) continues to stir the limelight and since it is a phenomenal social media platform, with users utilizing it to convey both spoken and nonverbal expressions, the researchers chose this site to investigate the rich repository of verbal emoticons. Anchored on three over-arching frameworks such as Technological Determinism Theory, Thematic Analysis, and Pragmatics attached to the notion of Speech Act (expressive act) Theory, 300 verbal texts (FB Posts) were used as corpus to investigate the occurrences of the iconic virtual emoticons as substitutions and extensions for verbal elements in Facebook statuses or wall posts of 60 purposively selected participants. This study identified the various classifications, positions, and functions of each emoticon based on the structures of the verbal texts in the data. It was revealed that the majority of the Facebook users preferred facial expressions and people emoticons over others. It was also found that most icons were frequently put towards the end of the verbal texts, and their conjoint function is to do the entire turn. This implies that most emoticons were applied to encompass the inclusive message expressed in the verbal transcripts.
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