emoji linguistics
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• Given at the first ever EmojiCon.• It’s pretty visual, but I’ve tried to give information/context in the
notes fields, so you probably should read with those showing.• Unfortunately, you’re going to miss me performing a small section of
Beowulf, the Old English epic. Happily, you can hear someone else do some other parts:• Lowkey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zorjJzrrvA• Whoa, not lowkey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzmmPRG4smU
(skip the first 28 seconds)• You can check out other things about emoji, politics, data science and
linguistics here:• Twitter: @TSchnoebelen• Website: http://www.letslanguage.org• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerschnoebelen
Welcome to the slide-ument version of this presentation
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What this talk is about
🌍🚀🌌♻ 🔀🔃
🔧🔩🔨🌱📈🌳
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What this talk is about
🌍🚀🌌♻ 🔀🔃
🔧🔩🔨🌱📈🌳
(universals)(change)
(adaptation)(growth)
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Universal #1: Language changes
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Hwæt?
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😱⁉
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Sumerian (started ~3500 BC)
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Most scripts start out for accounting or administration
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Exclamation points don’t get popular on these til the 1970s
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“The iOS 10 emoji are way too lifelike, literal, objectively interpretable, and well, way less weird.”
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Universal #2: People are really good at adapting the resources they have available
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Czech
Diphthongs
Prague-like, can also intensify affection
Or pejoration
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Tongan
si’i and si’a
Different determiners express sympathy to their nouns (Hendrick, 2005)
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Zapotec
Voice quality
• Falsetto: Respect to godparents, God
• Whisper: Important messages
• Breathy: Scolding, demanding
• Creaky: Commiserating
(Sicoli 2009)
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gɪrma kowaji-k ati-eGirma ball-ACC kick-PAST "Girma kicked the ball '
gɪrma-k kowaji-k ati ʃe Girma-ACC ball-ACC kick MAL‘Girma kicked the ball (although someone else wanted it) '
Malefactives
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Bunny as a reference, sparkles as a feeling
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Conventions differ for even close domains
Positive
Negative
Conflict
Neutral
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
RestaurantsLaptops
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• One Japanese woman who wore a microphone for two years
• 13,604 usable utterances • Here we see that breathiness and
pitch are controlled separately
Individuals vary how they use linguistic resources by who they’re talking to
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Bank…or bakkureru
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What does Drake mean?
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There are ✖ 1️⃣ 1️⃣ s as
many 💀 when people are talking about 📱
Some quick math
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A quick history of emoji and #blacklivesmatter
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People sometimes literally see different things
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How do innovations spread?
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People change throughout their life, but more in “adolescence” (which could just be joining a beer aficionado site well after actual adolescence)
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Imagination—of geography, of gender, of race—structure expectations, interpretations, and choices
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• Languages change: it’s inevitable and desirable• Emoji alert us to the role of technology• (And playfulness)
• People adapt the linguistic resources they have• Changing meanings along the way
• For their social networks• And possibly beyond
• Variation doesn’t just mark a social category• It helps people REFELCT and CONSTRUCT social meaning….and potentially
social change
• The creation and spread of linguistic innovations involves thinking about power• Who is able to be creative?
• Who works with “symbolic capital”?• Local meanings can spread
• How connected are people—to what kinds of other people?
Quick review
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Thanks! 🖖🏽Tyler Schnoebelen@TSchnoebelen
http://www.letslanguage.org