Vyvyan Evans

The Emoji Code

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Since 2011, the use of emoji — deriving from the Japanese, meaning picture character — has become a global phenomenon.
We send over 6 billion emoji every day and regularly send emoji-only messages, and, when Oxford Dictionaries named the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji as their ‘Word of the Year 2015’, it received an enormous amount of criticism.
Whenever emoji are covered in the popular media the same burning questions come up: Can an emoji really be a word? How language-like is it? Will emoji make us dumber? Or more lazy? Will they make us less adept at communicating with our nearest and dearest? And does this signal the death knell for language as we know it?
Drawing on findings from disciplines as diverse as linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, archaeology and anthropology, this groundbreaking book explores human capacity to communicate, and addresses these questions in the process.
The Emoji Code sheds light on emoji's vital role in the expression of emotion in digital communication and more, pointing the way for the future of international communication in a provocative and entertaining way.
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383 printed pages
Copyright owner
Michael O'Mara Books
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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  • zoespeleshas quoted3 years ago
    Mandarin (900 million) and Spanish (427 million) have more native speakers – it has both status and reach that puts it on a different plane to any other. English has 339 million native speakers, with a further 603 million speakers who use it as a second language. This means there are around 942 million more-or-less fluent speakers in the world. And with another 500-plus million users with some degree of fluency, that makes for more than 1.5 billion people alive today with proficiency in English.
  • zoespeleshas quoted3 years ago
    Emoji facts, figures and cross-platform glyphs is emojipedia.org
  • zoespeleshas quoted3 years ago
    Since 2011, when they first became widely available on mobile computing devices, they have taken the world by storm

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