Jajaja, jejeje, jijiji: pragmatic functions associated with transcriptions of laughter in computer-mediated communication in Spanish
This paper describes a study of the pragmatic functions associated with onomatopoeic transcriptions of laughter used in computer-mediated communication (CMC) in Spanish, carried out through a questionnaire applied on Costa Rican university students. On five-points Likert scales, the participants eva...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad de La Rioja
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica |
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| Online Access: | https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/cif/article/view/4405 |
| Summary: | This paper describes a study of the pragmatic functions associated with onomatopoeic transcriptions of laughter used in computer-mediated communication (CMC) in Spanish, carried out through a questionnaire applied on Costa Rican university students. On five-points Likert scales, the participants evaluated the degree to which six types of transcribed laughter —jaja, jajaja, jeje, jejeje, jiji y jijiji— can carry out ten proposed pragmatic functions. This produced a series of statistically significant results that associate both the vowel quantity and the number of syllables with different functions. The findings will serve as a base for future analyses of these elements in real corpora of CMC. |
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| ISSN: | 0211-0547 1699-292X |