Beyond Words: Pragmatic approaches to visual discourses in digital interactions
Edited by Agnese Sampietro and Carmen Pérez-Sabater
Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 8:2 (2025) v, 213 pp.
Carmen Pérez-Sabater
List of John Benjamins publications in which Carmen Pérez-Sabater is involved.
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2025 “Emojis are grown-up stuff”: Analysing graphical elements in digital relational contexts Beyond Words: Pragmatic approaches to visual discourses in digital interactions, Sampietro, Agnese and Carmen Pérez-Sabater (eds.), pp. 152–185 | Article
This study delves into the use of graphicons, their frequency and their pragmatic functions in a corpus formed of 353,128 words/69,646 private texts on WhatsApp exchanged by adult users and teenagers. The messages were first examined to investigate graphicon usage. A second pragmatic analysis… read more
2025 Pragmatic approaches to visual discourses in digital interactions: Pragmatic approaches to visual discourses in digital interactions Beyond Words: Pragmatic approaches to visual discourses in digital interactions, Sampietro, Agnese and Carmen Pérez-Sabater (eds.), pp. 141–151 | Introduction
2024 Bonjour la famille!: Linguistic strategies for relationship maintenance in African online communities Internet Pragmatics 7:2, pp. 298–325 | Article
Rooted in African postcolonial pragmatics, this research pays particular attention to the strategic use of code-switching and other linguistic strategies for relationship maintenance in instant messaging communities that constitute translanguaging spaces. To this end, by means of a quantitative… read more
2022 Mixing Catalan, English and Spanish on WhatsApp: A case study on language choice and code-switching Spanish in Context 19:2, pp. 289–313 | Article
The purpose of this study is to examine language choice, language alternation and code-switching practices in Instant Messaging (IM). Specifically, this article presents the results from an analysis of the written conversations of a specific community formed by Valencian adults fluent in English. read more
2015 The rhetoric of online support groups: A sociopragmatic analysis English-Spanish Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 28:2, pp. 465–485 | Article
The study draws on a diverse sample of adult users of online support groups to investigate how men and women engage in written conversations, and how these interactions are carried out in English and in Spanish contrastively. We will see to what extent female and male communicators in online… read more