The Discourse of Digitised Emotions

Introduction, Alejandro Parini and Francisco Yus; 1. The circulation of emotions in online discourse, Francisco Yus and Alejandro Parini Part 1: Personal area 2. Generational shifts and emotional expression in emoji use by peninsular Spanish WhatsApp users: A sociolinguistic analysis, Carmen Maíz-Arévalo; 3. Artificially affective: Discourse, emotions, and the production of empathy in human-AI interaction, Chelo Vargas; 4. Relevance of food-tease: Impressions and emotions, Ryoko Sasamoto; 5. Collective emotions and appraisal criteria in digital commemorations on Instagram, Catherine Bouko Part 2: Intersubjective area 6. From clickbait to rage bait: Pragmatics and the monetization of emotions on TikTok, Kate Scott; 7. “Sin ti no soy nada □□□□□□□□□□□□□□ es que no lo entiendes” (“I’m nothing without you □□□□□□□□□□□□□□ you just don’t understand”): Emotions, graphicons, and gender in online grooming discourse, Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Andrea García-Montes, and Carmen Pérez-Sabater; 8. Shedding crocodile tears: Authenticity and affective stance on YouTube, Jan Chovanec; 9. Emoji as a resource for negotiating interpersonal meaning in the comment threads of video lectures, Michele Zappavigna Part 3: Collective area 10. Communicative toxicity and affective polarization in digital environments: A case study of The Guardian and La Vanguardia’s abandonment of the social network X, Javier Serrano-Puche, Adriana Gordejuela, and Aurken Sierra; 11. Making digitised emotions and identities legible: Humour, stance, and teacher futurity in meme narratives, Boris Vázquez-Calvo and Leticia-Tian Zhang; 12. Connected yet alone: Discursive constructions of loneliness in young adults, Bianca Fox; 13. Online ‘anti-mourning’ and the metapragmatics of schadenfreude, Rodney H. Jones; Index

Biography

Alejandro Parini is Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Professor of English Linguistics at Belgrano University, Argentina. He is a member of the Argentine Academy of Letters and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK). He also serves on the scientific and academic boards of Intercultural Pragmatics and Revista de Estudios del Discurso Digital. His research interests focus on digital discourse, and his recent publications include Introducción al estudio del discurso digital en español, and The Discursive Construction of Place in the Digital Age.

Francisco Yus is full professor at the University of Alicante, Spain. He has applied pragmatics to Internet-mediated communication (Ciberpragmática, 2001; Ciberpragmática 2.0., 2010; Cyberpragmatics, 2011; Smartphone Communication, 2022; Emoji Pragmatics, 2025). He has also published on irony and humour (Humour and Relevance, 2016; Pragmatics of Internet Humour, 2023). He is also editor (with Chaoqun Xie) of the journal Internet Pragmatics.