This past year, emoji has become a normal part of our written life. The way emoji works as communication and teaches us a lot about their relationship to written language. Both gesture and emoji can communicate about things only in the physical world. Gesture is missing many of the things that would make it a language. One can combine gesture with spoken language in order to communicate a richer meaning than either would alone. Gesture adds meaning often where speech cannot, especially in spatial relations and object size. Similarly, emoji can enhance meaning in areas such as tone, where spoken language cannot.
If you spent enough time building the kind of compositional grammar into gesture that would allow you to use it as a language you’d have… a sign language.
Emoji and gesture cannot be universal communication tools because of cultural differences in language and the meanings behind them. However, if you build compositional grammar into gesture, this allows you to develop gesture into a type of sign language. And if you followed the same process with emoji, you would create a writing system for an already existing language. So emoji and gesture are similar in many ways, especially when they support spoken or written language.
Key Takeaways:
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Emojis have become a part of our daily life both in education and at home.
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However, Emoji’s are still not a universal tool of communications because images mean different things.
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Emoji may become its own language like sign language so that eventually it is universal.
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