It's probably already happened to you during an SMS exchange or on any social network, here you receive a Spanish dancer, a little penguin or more ambiguous a peach, enough to remain perplexed. Another situation while you respond quickly by sms to your boss, you end mechanically by a small smiley that sends a kiss?malaise?
It's been a few years since so-called emoticons or emojis appeared in our exchanges in writing. But for some time now, they have become ubiquitous. So much so that the very serious Oxford Dictionary has elected the emoji that laughs with tears of joy "word of the year" 2015. A new stage has been reached? fifteen days after World Emoji Day? is releasing today in the United States a film that makes these small pictograms characters in their own right? no worries it will be visible in France in October.
Language or marketing product? Sign specific to the digital age and messages in 140 characters or enrichment of our exchanges? »
With André Gunthert (EHESS), Virginie Béjot, Ludovic Houplain, Pierre Halté (crem).
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