Interacionismo simbólico: análises de casos sobre o corpo multimodal em stickers do Whatsapp

This study consists of an attempt to reflect on the representation of the body in dialogical construction in messaging applications, with an emphasis on WhatsApp, as well as on technological devices, considering the conversion of bodies into multimodal messages. For that, we make use of what we call here “body-stickers”, as an object of analysis and reflection - which are nothing more than the figurines present in the application under study - and that in contemporary times they participate in the weaving of dialogues in technological devices and on the Internet. Sharing the same space occupied for years by emojis, emoticons and smiles, the stickers correspond to new developments in the construction of dialogues that make use of representations of bodies and human expressions. Therefore, bodies, as images, say as much as words, revealing information that can be coded in objective and subjective ways through different semiotic modes found in multimodality. In this way, we continue with the bibliographic contribution of the studies of social semiotics by Kress and Van Leeuwen (1996; 1998; 2001) to carry out the verbal-visual analysis of the body stickers in dialogues within the WhatsApp application.