The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats Rappaport Normally the Chinese stay eyes-only

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The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats Rappaport Normally the Chinese stay eyes-onlyDrawing 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