Conventional Faces: Emoticons in Instant Messaging Discourse

Computers and Composition

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 112-125

  Garrison, Anthony ^a   Remley, Dirk ^a   Thomas, Patrick ^a   Wierszewski, Emily ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SETON HILL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Emoticons; Instant messaging; Language conventions; Paralinguistic markers; Punctuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958772532     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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