Types of speech internet communication and functionality of its graphical display elements

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This study examines the typology and CITATION functionality of graphical display elements in modern Dildor Otajonova. (2025). Types of speech internet communication and speech internet communication. Specifically, the functionality of its graphical display elements. The American Journal of research aimed to analyze different types of internet Social Science and Education Innovations, 7(02), 101–110. https://doi.org/10.37547/tajssei/Volume07Issue02-10 communication and their non-verbal components, thereby identifying and categorizing structural, COPYRIGHT functional, and semantic characteristics of these © 2025 Original content from this work may be used under the terms communication forms. of the creative commons attributes 4.0 License. To achieve these objectives, the study employed qualitative content analysis methodology to examine various forms of internet communication including blogs, social networks, email, and internet conversations. In particular, the analysis focused on four main categories of graphical elements: emoticons/smileys, emojis, graphic stickers, and memes, examining their communicative functions, contextual usage patterns, and semantic interpretations. Subsequently, the findings reveal that online interaction represents a complex system incorporating both verbal and non-verbal elements, where graphical display elements serve multiple functions beyond decoration. Furthermore, the research demonstrates that emoticons primarily express emotional states, while emojis offer semantic precision through categorized pictograms. Additionally, stickers provide character- based emotional expression, whereas memes serve as cultural touchstones that build community and establish shared understanding among users. Consequently, the study concludes that graphical display elements have become integral to modern digital literacy, thus compensating for the absence of traditional non-verbal cues in digital communication while creating new forms of expression unique to the digital environment. Moreover, the formality and The American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations 101 https://www.theamericanjournals.com/index.php/tajssei The American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations informality of internet communication are determined development of modern communication means in by both platform characteristics and addressee internet mass media, which can significantly alter the relationships, with graphical elements adapting their semantic concept of polycode text, making it more roles accordingly in each context. These findings, difficult for specialists to ‘decode’ the semantics. therefore, have significant implications for educators, Electronic media using the Internet, social networks, communication specialists, and platform developers chats, and forums have today become part of everyday who must consider the fundamental role of these life for populations in the world's most developed elements in facilitating effective online countries. communication. The number and geography of Internet users is constantly expanding. Social networks are becoming increasingly popular among the population. With the Keywords: Speech internet communication, internet development of computer technology and the Internet, language, virtual communication, non-verbal new forms of text have begun to develop, which are elements, emoticons, emoji, graphic stickers, memes, unique not only linguistically but also technologically. digital literacy, clip thinking. One of these forms consists in the fact that, in reality, the text itself only represents its external appearance. Introduction: Given the rapid development of First, these methods of expressing non-verbal means of information technologies in the modern world, interpersonal communication began to be used in computer texts and internet communication texts are communication services, particularly in email and SMS increasingly becoming objects of research, making messages via mobile devices, where the original authors them difficult for linguists to study due to the used standard keyboards to type the above characters. peculiarities of their content. For example, when According to famous philologist M.Krongauz, written studying legal texts (court decisions, lawsuits, etc.), speech has become much more popular than oral experts face difficulties in identifying the author of speech: “Today, such expansion of written speech these texts and/or determining whether they were means that oral communication with a person is created by one person, because the indicated texts are perceived as a kind of burden, worry, perhaps even template-based in nature, containing similar invasion. Although we use written language on the structures, quotes from legislative texts, and other Internet, it is live communication that corresponds to elements. our spoken language. When we chat, we almost never It is very difficult to determine the informational use complex sentences, par