Gibson, Will;
              
      
        
        
  
(2024)
  Flirting and winking in Tinder chats.
Internet Pragmatics
      
    
    
    
         10.1075/ip.00107.gib.
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Abstract
Existing research across the diverse field(s) of ‘discourse studies’ has started to explore the communicative orders and sequential practices surrounding emoji use (Skovholt, Grønning and Kankaanranta 2014; Herring and Dainas 2017; Gibson, Huang and Yu 2018; Sampietro 2019). However, researchers have not yet systematically analysed one of the demonstrable phenomena of emoji, which is their ambiguity as meaning-making devices (Miller et al. 2016; Jaeger et al. 2017). This study draws on Conversation Analysis to explore the issue of ambiguity in the use of one particular type of emoji, the wink (e.g.,
| Type: | Article | 
|---|---|
| Title: | Flirting and winking in Tinder chats | 
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery | 
| DOI: | 10.1075/ip.00107.gib | 
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ip.00107.gib | 
| Language: | English | 
| Additional information: | Available under the CC BY 4.0 license. © John Benjamins Publishing Company | 
| Keywords: | emoji, Conversation Analysis, Tinder, flirting, ambiguity | 
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media | 
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188216 | 
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