Emotion in Multilingual Interaction

This chapter investigates the construction of emotion in L1-L2 Spanish in computer-mediated (CM) text interaction. Based on a corpus of text-based conversations between L1 Spanish users and intermediate L2 speakers of Spanish, analysis shows that both groups employ a range of multisemiotic resources to communicate emotion. These resources include emoticons, punctuation, capitalization, explicit emotion words, and code-switching. By giving much-needed attention to emotion in synchronous CM L1 and