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

Evans, Dr Vyvyan

 
9781782437871: The Emoji Code: How Smiley Faces, Love Hearts and Thumbs Up are Changing the Way We Communicate
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ISBN 10 : 1782437878 ISBN 13 : 9781782437871
Editeur : Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 2017

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1782437878
ISBN 13 
9781782437871
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9781782438281: The Emoji Code: How Smiley Faces, Love Hearts and Thumbs Up are Changing the Way We Communicate

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ISBN 10 :  1782438289 ISBN 13 :  9781782438281
Editeur : Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 2017
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