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 : Computers
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.

Approaches to Internet Pragmatics

Author: Chaoqun Xie
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027260354
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description
Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since pragmatics deals with communication in context and how more gets communicated than is said (or typed), applications of this linguistic perspective to internet communication, under the umbrella label of internet pragmatics, are not only welcome, but necessary. The volume covers straightforward applications of pragmatic phenomena to internet interactions, as happens with speech acts and contextualization, and internet-specific kinds of communication such as the one taking place on WhatsApp, WeChat and Twitter. This collection also addresses the role of emoticons and emoji in typed-text dialogues and the importance of “physical place” in internet interactions (exhibiting an interplay of online-offline environments), as is the case in the role of place in locative media and in broader place-related communication, as in migration.

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.

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.

Semiotics of Drink and Drinking

Author: Paul Manning
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441137742
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
A comparative study of how drinks and drinking, as embodied semiotic and material forms, mediate modern social life.

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.

Music as Multimodal Discourse

Author: Lyndon C. S. Way
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474264441
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
We communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course, music. Music has traditionally been viewed as a separate object that we can isolate, discuss, perform and listen to. However, much of music's power lies in its use as multimodal communication. It is not just lyrics which lend songs their meaning, but images and musical sounds as well. The music industry, governments and artists have always relied on posters, films and album covers to enhance music's semiotic meaning. Music as Multimodal Discourse: Semiotics, Power and Protest considers musical sound as multimodal communication, examining the interacting meaning potential of sonic aspects such as rhythm, instrumentation, pitch, tonality, melody and their interrelationships with text, image and other modes, drawing upon, and extending the conceptual territory of social semiotics. In so doing, this book brings together research from scholars to explore questions around how we communicate through musical discourse, and in the discourses of music. Methods in this collection are drawn from Critical Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics and Music Studies to expose both the function and semiotic potential of the various modes used in songs and other musical texts. These analyses reveal how each mode works in various contexts from around the world often articulating counter-hegemonic and subversive discourses of identity and belonging.