tone indicator

English
Examples
  • /gen – indicates a genuine question
  • /s – indicates a sarcastic statement
  • /srs – indicates a statement said in a serious manner

Noun

tone indicator (plural tone indicators)

  1. (linguistics, chiefly Internet) A symbol conveying the tone or context of a message, often over the internet.
    Synonyms: tone tag, mood indicator
    • 1990, Geoffrey Nunberg, chapter 5, in The Linguistics of Punctuation‎, Cambridge University Press, page 65:
      For one thing, it helps to shed light on the nature of the question mark and the exclamation point – the "tone indicators" – which I have not considered up to here.
    • 2020 December 9, Ezra Marcus, “Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 4 July 2021:
      But what tone indicators lack in artfulness, they make up for in their bulletproof inability to be misinterpreted.

See also
  • Category:English tone indicators
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