emoticons, emojis & context-specific graphemes

Question 1

what are written paralinguistic features

Answer 1

emoticons, emojis and context-specific graphemes

Question 2

what can written paralinguistic features convey?

Answer 2

emotion
objects or concepts
serve a specific purpose
facilitate communication
add an additional layer of meaning and expression

Question 2

what are emoticons

Answer 2

faces made from keyboard characters, it can add a sense of emotion “:)”

Question 3

what are culturally specific emojis?

Answer 3

emojis that require context or inference to find out how they’re being used

Question 4

what are context-specific graphemes?

Answer 4

cab add a layer of understanding coherence to a text, often used for efficiency
“&, @, ^, *, #”