Emoji: The Future of Language?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ffvp6
- The fastest growing language
- Enable us to express emotion and empathy in digital communication
- On average, adults spend 22 hours online per week (we write now more than we speak on
some days)
- Texts alone take the empathy out of the message
- Texts don't show intonation, tone or expression
- Use emojis to add personality
- 'Crying with laughter' biggest usage - anointed 2015 word of the year by Oxford
Dictionary
- Emojis allow us to be more effective communicators in the digital age
- Invented in 1999 in Japan ('emoji' means picture/character)
- 176 originally created in 1999 and now there is over 1800 (expanding language)
- Average 6 year old in the UK is more text savvy than the average 45 year old
Frenchified: The Influence of French on English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08lh6r1
Like, Totally Awesome: The Americanisation of English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08g5533
- 19th Century American language started to influence our language (post war - English
soldiers learnt words from American soldiers and then brought them back to the UK)
- America has a strong influence throughout the world both technologically and culturally
- Films, TV programmes such as 'Friends', the media and journalism has a big influence
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