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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 445–466PDF of Emojis and Stickers as Multimodal Resources in Student Whatsapp Discourse: Functions, Meaning-Making and Identity

   Emojis and Stickers as Multimodal Resources in Student Whatsapp Discourse: Functions, Meaning-Making and Identity

   Jaafar Ahmad Wakili and Maryam Sani Babayo

   This study examines how emojis and stickers function as multimodal resources in the WhatsApp-mediated academic discourse of the National Association of Students of English and Literary Studies (NASELS), Federal … descriptive design to analyse 75 purposively selected chat threads containing 243 emojis and 126 stickers. The findings show that emojis and stickers perform affective, pragmatic, interpersonal, humorous, and identity-related