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«The new system» of punctuation marks in texting / messaging: the final punctuation mark of an utterance as an amotion generating factor (OPEN ACCESS)

Karpukhina Viktoriya Nikolaevna

Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia, vkarpuhina@yandex.ru

Abstract

The paper considers communicative situations of texting / messaging in the aspect of contemporary punctuation form of the utterance. Final punctuation marks in the utterance which differ from the standard punctuation version are analyzed in the paper as a factor generating emotion. It influences the «positive communication» effects in messengers. The traditional functioning of the interrogative mark and changes in the full-stop and the exclamation mark functioning as the final punctuation marks in messengers are considered to be the strategies of creating the shared emotional field in the online communication.

Keywords

punctuation marks; emotion generating factor; contact-making function; messenger; online communication

For citing: Karpukhina, V.N. (2021). «The new system» of punctuation marks in texting / messaging: the final punctuation mark of an utterance as an amotion generating factor. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 2(46): Homo emoticus in the digital era, pp. 9-19. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2021.02.01

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