The Discourse of Digitised Emotions

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