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New Delhi: If someone asks you what is the global language of todays new era? In India, the largest English-speaking country, most people may give this title to English. But that is not true. In fact, todays global language is emoji. It has no letters, but a picture, a feeling, a reaction. There is a voice against inequality. There are no boundaries and breeds of this language on the Internet. Vyv Evans, a professor of linguistics at Bangor University in the UK, claims that emoji is the worlds ...

Friday 5 March 2021 Language mutates. As society changes, neologisms sprout, new words become codified – app, selfie, meme, troll – and old ones die out. And the rise of new technologies also impacts our non-verbal communication. Linguistics professor Vyv Evans has suggested that some of our basic hand gestures, or “emblems”, will soon die out due to younger generations not understanding them: things like scribbling on your hand in a restaurant to signal for the bill, or making a windi...

As communication about science and health increasingly moves online, new ways are emerging for people to participate in public dialogue about advances in science. One of these is the use of emojis – ‘picture characters’, from the Japanese ‘e’ (picture) and ‘moji’ (character). These have, in the last decade, become increasingly popular as a form of visual communication that indicates specific reactions and emotional responses. The popularity of the genre was highlighted in 2015 w...