THE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHINESE EMOTICON

When the emoticon was created in 1980s, many commentators have even described this creation as futile effort for improving internet communication efficiency. Even in the famous “language and the internet” (Crystal, 2001), the finder of internet linguistic, David Crystal argues that emoticons at the...

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Main Author: Liu, Xiangxi
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2015
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/236
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1207&context=masters_theses_2