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The Emoji Code
The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats | Vyvyan Evans
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Drawing from disciplines as diverse as linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience, The Emoji Code explores how emojis are expanding communication and not ending it. For all the handwringing about the imminent death of written language, emojithose happy faces and heartsis not taking us backward to the dark ages of illiteracy. Every day 41.5 billion texts are sent by one quarter of the world, using 6 million emoji. Evans argues that these symbols enrich our ability to communicate and allow us to express our emotions and induce empathyultimately making us all better communicators. Vyvyan Evans's Emoji Code charts the evolutionary origins of language, the social and cultural factors that govern its use, change, and development; as well as what it reveals about the human mind. In most communication, nonverbal cues are our emotional expression, signal our personality, and are our attitude toward our addressee. They provide the essential means of nuance and are essential to getting our ideas across. But in digital communication, these cues are missing, which can lead to miscommunication. The explosion of emoji, in less than four years, has arisen precisely because it fulfills exactly these functions which are essential for communication but are otherwise absent in texts and emails. Evans persuasively argues that emoji add tone and an emotional voice and nuance, making us more effective communicators in the digital age.
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MrBook
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Thank you for the tag, @RadicalReader , you superb Litten you!

1. The Clockwork Dynasty; Lonesome Dove
2. 😎
3. 🤯🤓😉

#weekendreads

@rachelsbrittain

RadicalReader @MrBook thank you so much for your kind words 5y
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Erinreadsthebooks
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1. Leaving for the beach tomorrow and taking My Lovely Wife, Women Talking, and The Altruists with me.
2. 😏
3. 👩🏾‍🌾🤷‍♀️🙌
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

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Craftylikefox
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📚Stardust
🎬 Star Trek
🎼 Runnin‘ Down a Dream

#manicmonday #🤩 @JoScho

JoScho Good song choice 🖤🖤🖤 5y
Craftylikefox @JoScho thanks 😊🖤 5y
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AlaMich
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#hellothursday

1. 🇺🇸
2. 🇺🇸
3. 🇬🇧
4. 🇵🇹

@wanderinglynn

BookishTrish Is Portugal on your bucket list or have you recently been? 5y
AlaMich @BookishTrish Never been but would love to go! Have you been? 5y
BookishTrish I lived there for two years and it‘s one of my favourite places on Earth. I‘m planning to go back this year for the first time in over 15 years. 5y
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AlaMich @BookishTrish What brought you there? I‘ve been to Spain but Portugal didn‘t work out in that trip. 5y
BookishTrish I taught English there. 5y
BookishTrish Spain is lovely too 5y
wanderinglynn Thanks for playing! 🌎 5y
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Ash.on.the.line
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I love this #bitmojimonday thanks to @hermyknee

I wake up bright and early!
I had TWO emails for coupons to different book stores!
I‘m watching my nephew (who doesn‘t let me swaddle him anymore 😂)
I‘m also reading a little and trying to find something for my mom for Mother‘s Day. 🤔

So fun to find the right picture to suit your day! 😝😂

emilyhaldi “shut up and take my money” 😂😂😂 6y
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CindyMyLifeIsLit
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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦💔👫🐶👩‍🎓👩‍🏫🤪📚✈️👩‍💻🛌🧟‍♀️👻😍💻

I‘m married with a son and a daughter, both of whom have moved across the country (hence the broken heart!). This leaves my husband and I alone with our dog, Oliver. I have a degree in English and teach in high school, so clearly I‘m crazy! Books are my life, of course, although I also love to travel, although I haven‘t gotten to do it as much as I would like. ⬇️
#EmojiDescription

CindyMyLifeIsLit I‘ve always dreamed of being a writer but have not put out the effort necessary to pursue it. I love sleeping late (incompatible with my career!) and all things zombie and horror. I also love my book people on all my social media!! 6y
Chelleo 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️😳😀 6y
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Jadams89
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🙄 most used emoji
🐶I love dogs
😂I tend to cry when I laugh
🤫I‘m super quiet
🤬but I have a mouth like a sailor
🧦I love socks
🤪and I can be a bit of a goofball
🤷🏼‍♀️I do this a lot
🏖and wish I was here.
📖books, of course.
@Chelleo #EmojiDescription

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Jen_Reads
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🙎🏻‍♀️🐱🐱🐱🐶🐶🍔🍟🥤⚽️🎨📚✈️🌁 🇭🇷 🇮🇹 🇧🇦 🇸🇮 🇨🇭 🇨🇦

There‘s just me. I have one cat that‘s just mine and there are two other cats and two dogs I live with and love. Burgers, fries and coke (aka Five Guys) is happy food. Bonding over the 2006 World Cup is how me and my bestie met. I have a fine art degree, but work at a bookstore and I love books and reading. I love travel (flags represent countries I been to)
#emojidescription

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TheQuietQuill
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❤️📚🍷💍👰🏻🤵🏻🐶🐘👩🏻‍🏫🍱🍰🎤🎼🍂🎃⚔️🐉💛🖤💛🖤

@Chelleo #emojidescription

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dariazeoli
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#EmojiDescription

🌱📚🤷🏻‍♀️🐶🙄🚭🥔🍞☕️🎧📺🎞📱♑️😒

dariazeoli Explanation: Vegan reader who can‘t even! Dog companion, eye-roller, non-smoker. Loves potatoes, bread, coffee, music, tv, movies. iPhone owner. Capricorn. Exasperated with most things. (edited) 6y
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tif
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♀️❤️♂️👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻📚🍓🎟️🍵👩🏼‍💻

@Chelleo #emojidescription

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JewelsEnd
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😉🙄🤔😎✍🏻🗣
🍂🔥💋💨
🍬🍭🌮
🏄🏼⛸🎭🎟🎧🎮
✈️🏖🌆🏙🌃🗽
🎥🎞💰📘📚
💓💗💔💙😥
🕐🕜🕣😡🕜🕐
💕😙😌😏🙂

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Cathythoughts
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#EmojiDescription

Me : 📘👻😂🕵️‍♀️👠👜🍰🍫☕️🏋️‍♀️🎹📚❤️🥑🐶❤️

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Liatrek
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#emojidescription 📚📚📚📚📚🎄🤬🦋🌻🌊🍓🍟🍱🥂🍹🍸☕️🥃🍷🎼🎬🏝🏖📓♓️🤦🏾‍♀️

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BlameJennyJane
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Fun one!!!
🤦🏽‍♀️📚🐱🐦🦔🌈🥓🧀🍣🥃📺💌 @Chelleo #EmojiDescription

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mom2bugnbee
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✝️ ... 💑 ... 👭 ... 🏫🔬📚
🚙🛣️ ➡️ 🎭 ➡️ 💃 ➡️ 🎯
☕ 🍫

Christian... Wife... Mom of two girls... Science professor

Runs a mom taxi to theatre rehearsals/performances, dance rehearsals/performances, & archery practices/meets, thus requires much coffee & chocolate

@Chelleo #emojidescription

Chelleo I was hoping 💃🏾meant you were a salsa queen! 6y
SilversReviews This is cute. 😃😍😇📚🏃🏽‍♀️👩‍🍳👬♊️ (edited) 6y
mom2bugnbee @Chelleo HAHA! Maybe many moons ago. 😉 6y
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GripLitGrl
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📚💗😎👩🐦🌻🐾🎈🎥📷📱💻🚵🎧🎶🌞☕🌙🍷🍕🍝🍱🍹🍰🍦🌉🗽🎭♏💯👜👓
#emojidescription @Chelleo

Chelleo Another Scorpio! 6y
Trina_L 🤬📔🧡🗣🌮🍺🍷🏀🎶♎️ 6y
SilversReviews Wow...that is a lot of emojis. 6y
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GripLitGrl @Chelleo 👍😀 6y
GripLitGrl @SilversReviews 😄i just couldn't stop😄 6y
SilversReviews @GripLitGrl LOL. They are too small for me and I actually don‘t know what they all mean. LOL!! Glad you had fun...I could tell. you did. THANKS...Such a fun idea. 6y
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Kappadeemom
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😂🏃‍♀️🌴😺🐶💰❤️🏧6️⃣ (explanation: funny, runner girl that lives in a sunny climate, with my cat, and dog. I raise money to eradicate heart disease and I have 6 kids which makes me feel like an ATM) @Chelleo #emojidescription

Chelleo 🏧😂😂😂 6y
LauraBeth 😂😂 6y
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Leftcoastzen
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#BookTalk #catsofLitsy in response to #MrBook , Crosby loves Books! Especially the Emoji Code!

MrBook Oh my goodness 😻😻😻😻😻!!!!!! 6y
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Leftcoastzen
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Close up of Tube map . Realized it was too small in last photo.I‘ll stop now.🤓

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Leftcoastzen
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Hilarious!NYC Subway Agony Index and an emojified London Tube Map.According to the subway map I would obviously be trying to go downtown on the 5 .

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Leftcoastzen
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Despite my library ban , I had to pick this up.Despite the fact most Littens can write the hell out of a sentence ,sometimes an emoji ,simple and direct ,rules.Professor Evans is an expert on language and communication I am interested to read his thoughts on the subject.