The communicative role of non-face emojis: Affect and disambiguation

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Highlights：

• Non-face emojis may decrease message ambiguity and increase readers' confidence.

• Non-face emojis may alter readers' perceived affect of a text message.

• Non-face emojis may alter affective content more significantly for ambiguous messages.

摘要

•Non-face emojis may decrease message ambiguity and increase readers' confidence.•Non-face emojis may alter readers' perceived affect of a text message.•Non-face emojis may alter affective content more significantly for ambiguous messages.

论文关键词：Emoticon,Emoji,Computer-mediated communication,Nonverbal,Emotion,Affect

论文评审过程：Received 7 February 2017, Revised 5 July 2017, Accepted 8 July 2017, Available online 9 July 2017, Version of Record 14 July 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.07.009