Grammatical structures of emoji in Japanese-language text conversations

• Published in: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 49 - 14
• Main Authors: Sekine, Kazuki, Ikuta, Manaka
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Science and Business Media LLC 29.07.2024; Springer International Publishing; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Adult; Behavioral Science and Psychology; BF309-499; Cognitive Psychology; Communication; Communication (Thought Transfer); Computers; Consciousness. Cognition; Conversation; Emoji; Emojis; English language; Experimental Psychology; Experiments; Female; Grammar; Grammatical subject; Humans; Illustrations; Japan; Japanese; Japanese language; Language; Language usage; Male; Multimodal communication; Native language; Native languages; Native Speakers; Neurosciences; Original; Original Article; Psycholinguistics; Psychology; Punctuation; Semantics; Sentences; Text Messaging; Universal grammar; Verbal communication; Verbs; Word meaning; Word order; Young Adult; Japan; Emoji; Grammar; Multimodal communication; Japanese

Emojis have become a ubiquitous part of everyday text communication worldwide. Cohn et al. (Cognit Res Princ Implic 4(1):1–18, 2019) studied the grammatical structure of emoji usage among English speakers and found a correlation between the sequence of emojis used and English word order, tending tow...