David Rosen

Emoji
60% of social queues and semantic meaning within conversation comes from intonation, speech prosody: absent from written discourse!
Emjois help to fill this gap to convey EMPATHY AND EMOTION acts as a metacomment; a person can make the appropriate response according to the social context

derisive counterblast- words them

BIlingualism: Welsh, difficulty to swear in Welsh, swear in English; much more effective
Emoji adds personality to online identity- construct a personalised online identity

Laughing emoji anointed as Word of the Year, EMOJi

Online activity replaces aspects of everyday face-to-face conversation

Prescriptivist: degrading the power of literal power
Descriptivist: empowers digital conversation,

Emoji: compound Japanese- picture character

  • Emojis serve as visual metaphor
  • Non-alphabetic

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