The people who do work for ­Unicode tend to be computer-programming experts ... like say ‘I love you’” “Emoji is like someone invented a secret code language that everyone already intuiti ...

Perhaps more important, the sheer diversity of emoji makes them a viable tool for crossing language and cultural barriers — and could see them effectively become a pidgin language of their own.

Emoji might ... to represent sign language. But for a number of reasons, that's not an effective substitute for ASL handshapes, according to Hall and Ludwig. "Most of these codes are not available ...

He has published 14 books on language, meaning and mind. This is an edited excerpt from his latest book, “The Emoji Code” published by Picador and Michael O’Mara Books. Emojis have become ...

He has published 14 books on language, meaning and mind. His latest, “The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats” is published by Picador.

Is emoji the new global language? The tsunami of emoji – which ... on what it means to be human,” he writes, in The Emoji Code. Like most things humans, emoji evolve and change, often in ...

Is emoji really the world's fastest-growing language? What do the emoji we use say about us? And why are they so popular? Michael Rosen finds out. Show more Is emoji really the world's fastest ...