Ashley R. Dainas
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ashley R. Dainas is involved.
Articles
2025 Lightening the mood with visual humor: The pragmatic functions of GIFs Beyond Words: Pragmatic approaches to visual discourses in digital interactions, Sampietro, Agnese and Carmen Pérez-Sabater (eds.), pp. 295–325 | Article
Large, colorful, and dynamic, GIFs are a staple of computer-mediated communication and have been hypothesized to perform similar discursive functions to other graphicons (e.g., emoticons, emoji). This research assesses how individuals interpret the discursive uses of GIFs in one-on-one… read more
2021 Chapter 4. Interpreting emoji pragmatics Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice, Xie, Chaoqun, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland (eds.), pp. 107–144 | Chapter
This chapter describes the methods and the overall findings of the Understanding Emoji Survey, which we administered online in early 2018 to determine how social media users interpret the pragmatic functions of popular emoji types in the discourse context of comments posted to public Facebook… read more