EMOJIS AS A STYLISTIC TOOL IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
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Isakova Zarinabonu Alisher qizi
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Emojis function as purposeful stylistic devices in digital communication, operating within pragmatics, discourse analysis, and multimodality. Drawing on Danesi (2016), Dresner and Herring (2010), and Kress and van Leeuwen (2001), this study examines how emojis serve as expressive means, tone modulators, irony markers, intensification devices, and discourse-structuring elements. Through stylistic analysis of realistic examples from social media and messaging apps, the article shows that emojis fulfill roles analogous to prosodic and paralinguistic features in speech. Their omission often alters pragmatic meaning substantively.
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