Pragmatics is interested in communication in context, or put differently, in the role that context plays in communication. According to one of its basic claims, at least within its most cognition-oriented account, what the speaker literally codes in an utterance (encoded meaning) differs more or less substantially both from the proposition that the speaker intends to communicate and from the one that their addressee eventually infers. Scott (2023: 5–6) summarises the main goal of pragmatics as follows: “Pragmatics, as a field, is concerned with everything that is communicated by an utterance beyond the literal, encoded meanings of the words that are used (…) [It] seeks to understand how we go beyond what has been literally and directly said by a speaker to work out what the speaker meant to communicate by producing a particular utterance in a particular context.” It can consequently hardly be denied that the utterances are just clues or mere starting points for interlocutors towards the intended interpretation. As this book aims to describe, very often users also go beyond simply interpreting the default visual referent of the emojis that they are sent on an ordinary basis (i.e. the one initially identified perceptually) and seek to infer the sender users’ intended interpretation when sending those emojis in a specific context. The conversation in (1), despite being fictional, is illustrative: