Transcending Traditional Language Boundaries in Communication
Transcending Traditional Language Boundaries in Communication

Summary/Abstract: The world we live in is a more and more digitized one, in which the new technology has influenced how people all around the globe communicate. In this world of no spatial or physical boundaries, we are using a new universal language in the form of emoticons and emoji, which are more complex visual icons and are seen as an affective linguistic resource (Albright, 2014). Therefore, in this paper, the aim is two-fold. On the one hand, we investigate whether pictograms transcend linguistic boundaries in communication and create an entirely new type of communication, a new language, based on the idea that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. On the other hand, we tackle a more interesting aspect which stirred the scientific interest of linguists, namely that a new rudimentary grammar of emoji is developing (Schnoebelen, 2012; Eyers, 2017; Danesi, 2017).

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