Victor uses the Kissing Face with Heart emoji as a pragmatic particle. He always uses the same one, and always in the same way, with every woman he texts. Laura, on the other hand, regularly makes a situationally specific emoji sequence relevant to the conversation, as she did in Example 4.17.
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2018 May 30, Michelle A. McSweeney, The Pragmatics of Text Messaging: Making Meaning in Messages, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, unnumbered page: