Hot Comment ｜ It's not confused, the emoji is still young

These days, the emoji has ushered in his 40th birthday. From the ":-)" "::::::", to an anthropomorphic emoji expression from Professor Farman of Carnegie Mellon University in 1982, to the various GIF movements and picture expressions of the brain hole today . The online communication is deeply integrated into life, and the emoticon package seems to have become a "salt of communication", because too much is accustomed to it, once lack of, you will feel that each sentence is difficult to open. (September 21 "Chinese youth youth on September 21st Newspaper)

Perhaps Professor Farman did not expect that the two representatives of the creation of the creation representing jokes and serious symbols have since opened the door to the Internet emoticon package.

Alberton Merjei, who specializes in non -language symbols, once proposed a formula: communicate with each other to understand each other = verification, speech speed (38%)+ expression, posture (55%)+ language content (7%). It can be seen from this formula that the proportion of language content is not high in emotional expression and understanding. On the contrary, the expression and tone are the key information of emotions. To put it simply, it doesn't matter what you say "what", "what to say" is more important. For example, the "yin and yang weird" between friends in reality is to say normal sentences and abnormally.

These tone and expressions that can greatly enrich exchanges and express emotions are not available for online text exchanges. The emergence of emoticons or emoticons has filled the vacancy that constituted the establishment of the above formula. This is not difficult to explain why we are increasingly inseparable from emoticons -to some extent, it is when we communicate in the Internet virtual world. Expression.

After years of development, emoticons have long been evolved from simple symbols to various expression packs such as pictures, images, graphics, and even pan -film and television. More and more systematic and professional emoticons are no longer auxiliary tools for communication to a certain extent, but a special language. Especially in the "visual culture era", it is obviously more likely to analyze the context, and the advantages such as anthropomorphization and authenticization of emoticons are reflected. At the same time, the expression pack born with the Internet is naturally comes with instantaneous and convenient characteristics. Even if you and me are everywhere, as long as you send a playful expression in front of the screen, I can immediately feel your emotions. It is simple and clear, but also expresses the chest. How can such an emoji make people not love?

Of course, the trend of emoticon packaging to language should also be dialectical. It is undeniable that the emergence of emoticons and emoticons reduces the seriousness and boringness of pure text expression, allowing us to express our emotions and emotions more freely and lively in the online world. However, it should also be seen that the emoji package is also easy to alienate into a tool for emotional venting due to its own development, which leads to problems such as pollution of online discourse, flatness of emotional expression, and aesthetic kitsch. At the same time, the "bucket map" culture caused by emoticons will also weaken people's language expression to a certain extent. At the moment when the emoticons represent the modern people's communication methods and habits, these are worthy of vigilance and reflection.

Text/Guangzhou Daily commentator Chen Wenjie Tu/Guangzhou Daily · Xinhua City reporter Li Bo Guangzhou Daily · Xinhuacheng editor Zhang Dongmei

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