Discourse of Digitised Emotions

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.

• Introduction; 1. The circulation of emotions in online discourse Part 1: Personal area 2. Generational shifts and emotional expression in emoji use by peninsular Spanish WhatsApp users: A sociolinguistic analysis; 3. Artificially affective: Discourse, emotions, and the production of empathy in human-AI interaction; 4. Relevance of food-tease: Impressions and emotions; 5. Collective emotions and appraisal criteria in digital commemorations on Instagram Part 2: Intersubjective area 6. From clickbait to rage bait: Pragmatics and the monetization of emotions on TikTok; 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; 8. Shedding crocodile tears: Authenticity and affective stance on YouTube; 9. Emoji as a resource for negotiating interpersonal meaning in the comment threads of video lectures 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; 11. Making digitised emotions and identities legible: Humour, stance, and teacher futurity in meme narratives; 12. Connected yet alone: Discursive constructions of loneliness in young adults; 13. Online ‘anti-mourning’ and the metapragmatics of schadenfreude; Index