The word of the year is un’emoji – The Republic

The Emoji laughing with tears in his eyes was proclaimed “word of the year” by the prestigious Oxford Dictionary. The face that helps us in the messages to express fun and laughter won over several words in vogue in recent months, from “refugee” to “Brexit” (the output of the UK from the EU). “And ‘what best reflects the ethos, mood and concerns of 2015,” was the motivation of the British dictionary.

This is the result of a search for’ Oxford University Press in collaboration with the hi-tech SwiftKey with the aim of finding out what emoji most used in the world. The smiley crying with joy was the most used globally; It represents 20% of all emoji sent by the British and 17% of those typed by the US, an increase on 2014 of 4% and 9% respectively. The very word “emoji” is entered with full rights in the common language, with its use that has more than tripled this year.

The eloquence of ‘it has emoji also permeated the social network: just think that, according to The Verge , Twitter is testing the possibility to express appreciation for a tweet not just giving a little heart (symbol which recently replaced the star), but given the choice between different emoticons, from that enjoyed the astonished and upset.

For the first time the word of the year is a symbol, an icon that replaces the canonical language: “That’s right, for the first time, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is an image,” says the blog University English. The emoji is a symbol of Japanese origin and is a compound of “image” and “writing”. The expressive power of the language is contained in a face that elevates his Status in the communication going to win on the words.

In recent days, was published a study showing that those using emoticons are more active sexually, and now the smiley faces are back in the field as part of the language. In the age of social networks changed the way we communicate, the legacies of orality, the completezzaa of writing are absorbed by symbols, using the communicative effectiveness of the human face, contain emotions and expression.

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