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Emoji serve as pragmatic resources for negotiating affiliation and taste in TikTok comments, shaping alignment and social norms in digital discourse. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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The research aims to understand how emoji act as resources for negotiating social alignment and taste in TikTok comment sections.

March 12, 2026Internet PragmaticsOpen Access

Emoji as resources for negotiating affiliation and taste in TikTok comments

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The research aims to understand how emoji act as resources for negotiating social alignment and taste in TikTok comment sections.
Adopted a social semiotic perspective for the analysis.
Used a combination of concordance-based and interactional analyses.
Examined specific emoji and their roles in conveying meanings.
Emoji like Skull 💀 and Face With Rolling Eyes 🙄 intensify mockery and disalignment.
Hot Beverage ☕ and Red Heart ❤ promote conviviality and in-group solidarity.
Emoji meanings are context-dependent and shaped by their interaction with text.

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Explores how emoji shape affiliation and taste in TikTok comments, suggesting complex meanings in digital discourse.

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Michele Zappavigna (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69b2587296eeacc4fcec812d https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00144.zap

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Emoji as resources for negotiating affiliation and taste in TikTok comments

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Emoji as resources for negotiating affiliation and taste in TikTok comments

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