Emoticons Kaomoji And Emoji The Transformation Of Communication In The Digital Age Elena Giannoulis

List of Contributors

1 Emoticons, Kaomoji, and Emoji: The Transformation of Communication in the Digital Age

PART I Intercultural Mediations

2 Not Everyone 💩s: Or, the Question of Emoji as ‘Universal’ Expression

3 Cultural Literacy in the Empire of Emoji Signs: Who Is 😂?

4 Emoticons: Digital Lingua Franca or a Culture-Specific Product Leading to Misunderstandings?

PART II Intersectional Mediations

5 ‘Impact taisetsu da!’: The Use of Emoji and Kaomoji in Dansō Escort Blogs Between Gender Expression and Emotional Labor

6 Emoticons in Social Media: The Case of Japanese Facebook Users

PART III Linguistic Mediations

7 ‘Iconographetic Communication’ in Digital Media: Emoji in WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook—From a Linguistic Perspective

8 A Cultural Exploration of the Use of Kaomoji, Emoji, and Kigō in Japanese Blog-Post Narratives

PART IV Pictorial Mediations

9 The Elephant in the Room of Emoji Research: Or, Pictoriality, to what Extent?

10 Construction of Iconicity in Scenes of Kaomoji

PART V Material Mediations

11 Who Is Afraid of Mr. Yuk? The Display of the Basic Emotion of Disgust in an ‘Analogue Precursor’ to Contemporary Emoji

12 From Digital to Analog: Kaomoji on the Votive Tablets of an Anime Pilgrimage