Abstract
This study has made use of a mixed mode design where two instruments are employed namely a corpus based tool and a questionnaire. For three months, the researchers have observed Raseef Jadara Facebook website in order to explore the use of emoji in posts and comments. The results showed that five functions were emerged from the data collected, emotive, conative, phatic, poetic, referential and metalingual. Descriptive statistics were used in conducting a questionnaire in order to show the differences between male and female students in using emoji. The results showed that females prefer using emoji in their chatting or messaging. The researchers suggest further studies to be carried out on the language functions of emoji in other social media platforms Furthermore. It is recommended for other studies to be directed into investigating all language functions.
Highlights
People always need to communicate with each other
Question one: What are the language functions of emojis used by undergraduate students Facebookers?
Two dialogues had been screenshooted in Raseef Jadara's group among students that show the emotive function while using emojis
Summary
People always need to communicate with each other. They need to exchange feelings and emotions (Banikalef & Rababah, 2018). There are many ways and tools to express these feelings and emotions. One of these tools is the emoji which was first appeared in Japan in the early 1990s and has become widespread these days. People witness an increasing use of emoji in social media in the world and the fact that they can be connected together to create a sentence with a full meaning raises the question of whether they are creating a new language amongst the new generation, or could change the existing language
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