Digital tildes (“∼”) may convey more: analyzing innovative uses of tildes in Chinese WeChat messages
Innovative uses of punctuation in online communication have become increasingly visible in research and public awareness since the 2000s, whereas studies on the innovative use of tildes (“∼”) in digital use remain scarce. Drawing on a data set of 543 Chinese WeChat messages with sentence-final tilde...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2023-09-01
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| Series: | Language and Semiotic Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/lass-2023-0009 |