Say what? (xiao): the representation of laughter as a contextualization cue in online Japanese discourse

In this paper, I compare two variants for representing laughter in synchronous Japanese Twitter discourse: (xiao), the kanji symbol meaning "laughter "situated between two parentheses, and w, the first letter of the romaji transliteration of that same word wara. I argue that they are digit...

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Main Author: Gregory A. Bennett
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2012-12-01
Series:Linguistica
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Online Access:https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/144