Pragmatic word order vs syntactic order: is there a syntax in emoji language?
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This research mainly aims to ascertain whether the utterances produced in text messages by college students through emojis follow some kind of syntactic order or if, given their visual nature, these pictograms develop a syntax that takes into account some pragmatic criteria when they are produced. With this purpose in mind, we analyzed 275 text messages from WhatsApp. The data showed that emoji language seems to follow traditional criteria of syntactic typology. In the research we also addressed other aspects related to word category and text comprehension.
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