The Emoji Code: How Smiley Faces, Love Hearts and Thumbs Up are Changing the Way We Communicate

Evans, Dr Vyvyan

ISBN 10: 1782437878 / ISBN 13: 9781782437871

Published by Michael O'Mara, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Emoji Code: How Smiley Faces, Love Hearts and Thumbs Up are Changing the Way We Communicate
• Publisher: Michael O'Mara
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782437878
• ISBN 13: 9781782437871
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 440 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Professor Vyvyan Evans is an internationally renowned expert on language and communication. He received his PhD in Linguistics from Georgetown University, Washington DC., and has taught at the University of Sussex, Brighton University and Bangor University. He has published 14 books on language, meaning and mind, including The Language Myth: Why Language is Not an Instinct (2014) and The Crucible of Language: How Language and Mind Create Meaning (2015). Evans is a much sought-after public speaker, and frequently provides expert opinion on language to the written and broadcast media. His writing has been featured in The Guardian, Newsweek, New Scientist, and Psychology Today, among other publications.