Agnese Sampietro

List of John Benjamins publications in which Agnese Sampietro is involved.

Title

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.

Articles

Sampietro, Agnese 2025 “Should I text or should I shoot?”: Exploring the use and interpretation of screenshots in mobile instant messaging interactions Beyond Words: Pragmatic approaches to visual discourses in digital interactions, Sampietro, Agnese and Carmen Pérez-Sabater (eds.), pp. 326–353 | Article

Screenshots have become a ubiquitous form of visual communication in current digital discourse. Despite similarities to photographs, screenshots differ in the mechanical nature of their production and blur the boundaries between written text and images, often displaying written text seamlessly… read more

Sampietro, Agnese and Carmen Pérez-Sabater 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

Sampietro, Agnese 2021 Emojis and the performance of humour in everyday electronically-mediated conversation: A corpus study of Whats­App chats Pragmatics, Humour and the Internet, Yus, Francisco (ed.), pp. 87–110 | Article

Emojis are little pictographs commonly added to electronic messages on several social media platforms. Besides being considered as a way to express emotions in electronically-mediated communication (EMC), similarly to ASCII emoticons, emojis are strictly involved in the performance of humour in… read more