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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:53:44
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Semiotics of Emoji: Danesi

 


Title: The Semiotics of Emoji 
Subtitle: The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet 
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/the-semiotics-of-emoji-9781474281980/ 


Author: Marcel Danesi

Electronic: ISBN:  9781474282000 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 12.99 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781474282017 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 14.99 Comment: ePDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781474281997 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 60.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781474281980 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 14.99


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics


Written In: English  (eng)

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