Instead of worrying that emoji might be replacing competent language use, we can celebrate the fact that emoji are creating a richer form of online communication that returns the features of ...

Emoji are so popular they’re killing off netspeak. The more we use 😂 , the less we use LOL and OMG. In essence, we’re watching the birth of a new type of language. Emoji assist in a ...

He has published 14 books on language, meaning and mind. This is an edited excerpt from his latest book, “The Emoji Code” published by Picador and Michael O’Mara Books. Emojis have become ...

It’s the most ambitious (and playful) effort to explore whether emoji itself is becoming a free-standing language. Emoji first emerged in the mid-1990s, when a Japanese pager company sought to ...

exhaustion or discomfort seems too immense to be captured in written language. That’s where the melting face emoji comes in. The face, fixed with a content half-smile even as it dissolves into a ...

The emoji has become a ­defined auxiliary language, but evolving and adapting as all genuine languages do. Moby-Dick has been translated into emojis. Emoji Dick may lack some of the subtlety of ...

While you may think sending an innocent smiley face or a thumbs up is harmless, studies show the real meaning behind emoji language. A recent study has revealed the true personality traits of ...