More than just a goodnight message

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When smartphone users in Germany pick up their mobiles, they use them mostly for
When smartphone users in Germany pick up their mobiles, they use them mostly for chatting. Katharina König and Marcel Fladrich are researching into how users communicate with one another via WhatsApp & Co. © WWU - Peter Leßmann
"You missed something yesterday. Tim fell in our pool!"

"Now really @Tim?- Thought you didn’t want to drink anything"?

"Haha tim :D"

What sounds like banal chit-chat among a group of young people about what happened at a party is of great interest to linguists at the Institute of German Language and Literature at the University of Münster. By examining such chats, for example, Dr. Katharina König found out that users are inadvertently made figures of fun and that emojis play a decisive role in distinguishing between the processes of laughing with or laughing at someone. ...
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