{"id":2087,"date":"2015-06-19T15:35:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:06","slug":"emoji-is-the-fastest-growing-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/06\/19\/emoji-is-the-fastest-growing-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Emoji is the fastest growing language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emoji&#8217;s are &#8216;pictographs. Originally used in Japanese electronic messages, many characters have now been incorporated into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/faq\/emoji_dingbats.html\">Unicode\u00a0<\/a> and the launch of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/parmyolson\/2014\/06\/30\/bye-bye-words-an-emoji-only-social-app-is-coming\/\"> Emoj.li.<\/a> an image only social network has been announced.\u00a0 A<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangor.ac.uk\/news\/latest\/emoji-fastest-growing-new-language-22835\"> recent study<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vyvevans.net\/\">Professor V. Evans,<\/a> from Bangor University, concluded that it is the fastest growing language in the UK with over 80% using it.\u00a0 Amongst 18-25 year olds, 72% even found it easier to communicate emotions using symbols rather than words. B<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/no-the-rise-of-the-emoji-doesnt-spell-the-end-of-language-42208\">ut will it mean the end for other forms of language?<\/a>\u00a0 Not according to Professor Evans.<\/p>\n<p>Try the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.testyouremojiiq.com\/\">Emoji IQ test<\/a> to find out how much you really know about this new form of communication!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emoji and communication <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/futuretense\/the-language-of-emoji\/6405446\">A recent debate from ABC radio<\/a> which featured linguist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgzimmer\">Ben Zimmer<\/a>\u00a0 and Fred Benenson, who &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2013\/dec\/11\/fred-benenson-status-update-emoji-dick\">translated Moby Dick into Emoji,<\/a> gives an\u00a0 introduction to the issues. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tschnoebelen\">Tyler Schnoebelen,<\/a> Stanford University has published a <a href=\"http:\/\/repository.upenn.edu\/pwpl\/vol18\/iss2\/14\/\">paper examining the uses of noses <\/a>in messages.\u00a0 He argues that that emoji is a type of language with clear variations in the use of emoticons by age, gender and region.<br \/>\nThis echoed an earlier paper <a href=\"http:\/\/clay.rice.edu\/pubs\/Tossell-Emoticon-CHB12.pdf\">on text messaging<\/a> by Chad Tossell et al which found that while women use emoticons more frequently, men use a wider range of images.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Emojis make people happy?<\/strong> Interestingly a number of researchers have focused on this issue. A<a href=\"http:\/\/citation.allacademic.com\/meta\/p_mla_apa_research_citation\/1\/6\/9\/3\/9\/p169395_index.html\"> University of Missouri-St. Louis study<\/a> which compared work and social emails containing emoticons found that those containing smiley faces were perceived more positively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emoji&#8217;s are &#8216;pictographs. Originally used in Japanese electronic messages, many characters have now been incorporated into Unicode\u00a0 and the launch of Emoj.li. an image only social network has been announced.\u00a0 A recent study by Professor V. 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