The Semiotics of Emoji

Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474282008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017 Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer variety of verbal communication on the internet and English's still-controversial role as lingua mundi for the web, these icons have emerged as a compensatory universal language. The Semiotics of Emoji looks at what is officially the world's fastest-growing form of communication. Emoji, the colourful symbols and glyphs that represent everything from frowning disapproval to red-faced shame, are fast becoming embedded into digital communication. Controlled by a centralized body and regulated across the web, emoji seems to be a language: but is it? The rapid adoption of emoji in such a short span of time makes it a rich study in exploring the functions of language. Professor Marcel Danesi, an internationally-known expert in semiotics, branding and communication, answers the pertinent questions. Are emoji making us dumber? Can they ultimately replace language? Will people grow up emoji literate as well as digitally native? Can there be such a thing as a Universal Visual Language? Read this book for the answers.

The Semiotics of Emoji

Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474281982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Emoji and writing systems -- Emoji uses -- Emoji competence -- Emoji semantics -- Emoji grammar -- Emoji pragmatics -- Emoji variation -- Emoji spread -- Universal languages -- A communication revolution?

Empirical Research on Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric

Author: Danesi, Marcel
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522556230
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
The study of symbols has long been considered a necessary field to unravel concealed meanings in symbols and images. These methods have since established themselves as staples in various fields of psychology, anthropology, computer science, and cognitive science. Empirical Research on Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric is a critical academic publication that examines communication through images and symbols and the methods by which researchers and scientists analyze these images and symbols. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics, such as material culture, congruity theory, and social media, this publication is geared toward academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on images, symbols, and how to analyze them.

The Emoji Revolution

Author: Philip Seargeant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108496644
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
Explores the evolution of emoji, how people use them, and what they tell us about the technology-enhanced state of modern society.

The Emoji Code

Author: Vyvyan Evans
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1250129060
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Emojis used for the letters 'o' in title on title page and spine.

Semiotics of Religion

Author: Robert Yelle
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441104194
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Integrates structural and historical perspectives on the semiotics of religion and gives an account of the distinctive features of religious language and symbolism.

Semiotics of Happiness

Author: Ashley Frawley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472524209
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
The Semiotics of Happiness examines the rise of 'happiness' (and its various satellite terminologies) as a social and political semiotic, exploring its origins in the US and subsequent spread into the UK and across the globe. The research takes as its starting point the development of discussions about happiness in UK newspapers in which dedicated advocates began to claim that a new 'science of happiness' had been discovered and argued for social and political change on its behalf. Through an in-depth analysis of the written and visual rhetoric and subsequent activities of these influential 'claims-makers', Frawley argues that happiness became a serious political issue not because of a growing unhappiness in society nor a demand 'on the ground' for new knowledge about it, but rather because influential and dedicated 'insiders' took the issue on at a cultural moment when problems cast in emotional terms were particularly likely to make an impact. Emerging from the analysis is the observation that, while apparently positive and light-hearted, the concern with happiness implicitly affirms a 'vulnerability' model of human functioning, encourages a morality of low expectations, and in spite of the radical language used to describe it, is ultimately conservative and ideally suited to an era of 'no alternative' (to capitalism).

Dehumanization of Warfare

Author: Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319672665
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
This book addresses the technological evolution of modern warfare due to unmanned systems and the growing capacity for cyberwarfare. The increasing involvement of unmanned means and methods of warfare can lead to a total removal of humans from the navigation, command and decision-making processes in the control of unmanned systems, and as such away from participation in hostilities – the “dehumanization of warfare.” This raises the question of whether and how today’s law is suitable for governing the dehumanization of warfare effectively. Which rules are relevant? Do interpretations of relevant rules need to be reviewed or is further and adapted regulation necessary? Moreover, ethical reasoning and computer science developments also have to be taken into account in identifying problems. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach the book focuses primarily on international humanitarian law, with related ethics and computer science aspects included in the discussion and the analysis.

Visualizing Digital Discourse

Author: Crispin Thurlow
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501510118
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
The first dedicated volume of its kind, Visualizing Digital Discourse brings together sociolinguists and discourse analysts examining the role of visual communication in digital media. The volume showcases work from leading, established and emerging scholars from across Europe, covering a diverse range of digital media platforms such as messaging, video-chat, gaming and wikis; visual modalities such as emojis, video and layout; methodologies like discourse analysis, ethnography and conversation analysis; as well as data from different languages. With an opening chapter by Rodney Jones, the volume is organized into three parts: Besides Words and Writing, The Social Life of Images, and Designing Multimodal Texts. From the perspective of these broad domains, chapters tackle some of the major ideological, interactional and institutional implications of visuality for digital discourse studies. The first part, beginning with a co-authored chapter by Crispin Thurlow, focuses on micro-level visual practices and their macro-level framing – all with particular regard for emojis. The second part, beginning with a chapter from Sirpa Leppänen, examines the ways visual resources are used for managing personal relations, and the wider cultural politics of visual representation in these practices. The third part, beginning with a chapter by Hartmut Stöckl, considers organizational contexts where users deploy visual resources for more transactional, often commercial ends.

Understanding Media Semiotics

Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135003990X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This book offers students an in-depth guide to help them investigate and understand the media using semiotic theory. It assumes little previous knowledge of the field, avoiding jargon and explaining the issues step by step. The two basic features of the methods used are the historical study of media and their genre and the analysis of the meaning structures that such genres encode. Semiotic analysis is sometimes seen as complicated and difficult to understand; Marcel Danesi shows that on the contrary it can be readily understood and can greatly enrich students' understanding of media texts, from print media right through to the internet.