The Social Semiotics Construction of Emoticons Discourse

DOI

10.2991/iceess-19.2019.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

emoticons, discourse, representation, sub-culture, social semiotics

Abstract

Emoticons, as the “spokesmen” of the Internet communication among young people, quickly become popular around the world. This sub-cultural phenomenon dissolves the mainstream culture, resists the cultural hegemony, and constructs its own discourse system and social space. This thesis analyzes the discourse of the emoticons of “the expedition and battle of Liyi Bar to Hong Kong Events on Facebook”, demonstrates from the field, toner and mode of discourse, and uses Halliday's social semiotics theory to deconstruct discourse rights and construct the group identity of emoticons discourse.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chuanbo Xie
PY  - 2019/10
DA  - 2019/10
TI  - The Social Semiotics Construction of Emoticons Discourse
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Education, Economics and Social Science (ICEESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 153
EP  - 156
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceess-19.2019.40
DO  - 10.2991/iceess-19.2019.40
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