Poirier Rachel C, Cook Andrew M, Klin Celia M
Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, United States.
Front Psychol. 2025 Feb 10;16:1410698. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1410698. eCollection 2025.
In contrast with face-to-face conversations, text messages lack important extralinguistic cues such as tone of voice and gestures. We ask how texters are able to communicate the same nuanced social and emotional meaning without access to this rich set of multimodal cues. The current paper expands on previous work examining the role of one particular textism, the period, and found that the inclusion of a period after a single-word text (yup.) could convey abruptness, or insincerity. Across three experiments, we used a rating scale to examine two additional textisms and found that the inclusion of a period after each word in an exchange (No. Just. Go) as well as breaking the exchange into a series of single-word texts ([no] [just] [go]) conveyed emotions such as disgust and frustration. These textisms may have mimicked prosody, influencing readers' understanding of the emotionality of the message. More generally, the results demonstrate that texters make use of a variety of textisms to communicate social and emotional information.
与面对面交谈不同，短信缺乏诸如语调、手势等重要的非语言线索。我们探讨了短信发送者在无法获取这一系列丰富的多模态线索的情况下，是如何能够传达同样微妙的社会和情感意义的。当前论文在之前研究的基础上展开，该研究考察了一种特定的短信用语风格——句号的作用，发现单字短信（“是的。”）后面加上句号可能会传达出唐突或不真诚的意味。在三项实验中，我们使用评分量表来考察另外两种短信用语风格，发现交流中的每个单词后面都加上句号（“不。只是。走”）以及将交流拆分成一系列单字短信（“[不] [只是] [走]”）会传达出厌恶和沮丧等情绪。这些短信用语风格可能模仿了韵律，影响了读者对信息情感性的理解。更普遍地说，研究结果表明短信发送者会利用各种短信用语风格来传达社会和情感信息。
