The emoji code : how smiley faces, love hearts and thumbs up are changing the way we communicate
Evans, Vyvyan2017
Books, Manuscripts
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?
Main title:
The emoji code : how smiley faces, love hearts and thumbs up are changing the way we communicate / Professor Vyvyan Evans.
Author:
Evans, Vyvyan, author
Imprint:
London : Michael O'Mara Books Limited, 2017.
Collation:
256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781782437871 (hbk)
Dewey class:
302.2223
LC class:
P99
Language:
English
BRN:
1907993