What role do emojis play in digital communication? Can emojis be analyzed like conventionalized linguistic signals? Do the components of emojis, such as eye and mouth shapes, have their own meanings?
Lea Fricke addresses these and other questions in her work. In the video (in German), she reports on her research findings and also explains why emojis are an exciting topic for school lessons.
Lea Fricke is a research assistant at the German Studies Institute at Ruhr University Bochum. There, she works on the project “Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication,” led by Tatjana Scheffler and Patrick Georg Grosz, which is part of ViCom. (Translated from the YouTube description)