Emoji and Linguistics, with author Vyv Evans, PhD

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#WeMakeMedia Season 2: On New and Digital Literacies

Episode 8: Emoji and Linguistics, Vyv Evans, PhD and author of The Emoji Code

In this episode, I speak with Professor Vyvyan Evans, author of The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats, about how emoji makes us better communicators, what literacy traditionalists are misunderstanding about its power and how emojis are jumping off the keypad into civic life & city planning.

Professor Vyvyan Evans, is an internationally renowned expert on language and digital communication as well as a communications technologist and consultant. He received his PhD in Linguistics from Georgetown University, Washington DC., and has taught at the University of Sussex, Brighton University and Bangor University. He has published 14 books on language, meaning, mind, and digital communication. These include The Crucible of Language: How Language and Mind Create Meaning (2015); and The Language Myth: Why Language is Not an Instinct (2014). He is a much sought-after public speaker, and frequently provides his expert opinion on language to the written and broadcast media and his writing has been featured in The New York Post, The Guardian, Newsweek, New Scientist, and Psychology Today, among other publications.

Vyv on twitter: @VyvEvans

Vyv’s website:  www.vyvevans.net

Vyvyan Evans: YouTube channel

Blog at Psychology Today


SHOW NOTES

Using more emoji does not mean you’ll have more sex >:-( , by Caitlin Dewey - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/02/04/using-more-emoji-does-not-mean-youll-have-more-sex/%3foutputType=amp

Singles in America: Match Releases Its Fifth Annual Comprehensive Study on the Single Population - match.mediaroom.com › singlesina...News Releases | Match.com

Where Does the 'Thumbs-Up' Gesture Really Come From?, by Merrill Fabry - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/time.com/4984728/thumbs-up-thumbs-down-history/%3famp=true

BABY SIGN LANGUAGE DICTIONARY - https://www.babysignlanguage.com/dictionary/

Emote project - http://www.emote-project.eu/

Bris Abused Emojis - https://showcasesweden.com/bris-abused-emojis

These Emoji Make It Easier for Kids to 'Talk' About Abuse, wired.com - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.wired.com/2015/06/abused-emoji/amp

The Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year is an emoji, by Lizzie Plaugic - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2015/11/16/9746650/word-of-the-year-emoji-oed-dictionary

The Rebus principle - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus

Coronavirus Emojis, by Vyv Evans - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/language-in-the-mind/202007/coronavirus-emojis%3famp

Shigetaka Kurita: The man who invented emoji, CNN style - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cnn.com/style/amp/emoji-shigetaka-kurita-standards-manual/index.html

The WIRED Guide to Emoji, a complete history - https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/guide-emoji/amp

Otto Neurath and the Untold History of the Infographic, nebo - www.neboagency.com

Manga iconography - en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › Manga...Web resultsManga iconography - Wikipedia

Inbox: The Original Emoji, by
Shigetaka Kurita - https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3639

Meet Scott Fahlman, the Guy Who Created the First Emoticon, culture trip - https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/pennsylvania/articles/meet-scott-fahlman-the-guy-who-created-the-first-emoticon/?amp=1

Bayeux Tapestry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

This is Finland, finland.fi › EmojiWeb resultsKalsarikännit - thisisFINLAND

Unicode, unicode.org - What is Unicode?

Facebook Reactions, the Totally Redesigned Like Button, Is Here - https://www.wired.com/2016/02/facebook-reactions-totally-redesigned-like-button/

Like it or not, the Attention Economy is Adding Emotion, techonomy.com

💙 Facebook Reactions: How They Work, What They Are, And How The 🤗 Care Reaction Button Is Changing The Game 💜

Finnish town considers 'Emoji Street' proposal, BBC news - http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38065216

New York has a new emoji index for its subway system, so we made you an emoji tube map - City Monitor

Pattern of Visual Dominance Behavior in Humans, authors John F. DovidioSteve L. Ellyson - Pattern of Visual Dominance Behavior in Humans | SpringerLink

Why emojified Shakespeare is a must-read - https://foreverbookish.com/2016/01/18/why-emojified-shakespeare-is-a-must-read/

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better, Clive Thompson