It wasn’t too long ago that the exclamation mark was a point ... or emoji in the workplace? The answer is that they’re useful. Lauren Collister, a socio-linguist at the University of ...

making up 20 percent of all emoji used in the U.K., and 17 percent in the U.S. But, as they also point out, there are no plans to add the emoji itself to the dictionary, so what are we even ...

strategic finger-pointing to show you like what ... But eventually tech-savvy users in the U.S., who were curious about the Japanese emoji phenomenon, figured out that you could force your phone ...

(Which is exactly what happened at one point in the Silk Road trial ... science and linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington. "Emoji in isolation could cause some puzzlement, but in the ...

Emoji users respect linear time and action. If you want to point a gun at something, it has to go to the left of the barrel, he says. A different order could convey an entirely different idea or ...

If you use lots of emoji when messaging your friends, you may be more emotionally intelligent—that is, better able to understand your emotions and those of others. That is the conclusion of an ...