Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Antony Funnell: It's often difficult to date the beginning of things. Hello, Antony Funnell here, ...

The proposal for a mammoth emoji—coming to an iPhone near you next month—doesn’t just give a brief natural history of the extinct pachyderm. It also includes a chart comparing the incidence of the ...

Emoji might be one of the fastest-growing communication methods of the digital age, but a lot of people probably think the whole thing is silly. Yes, there are very creative rebus-like forms of emoji ...

Like many, I was skeptical of emoji when they first arrived on the texting scene. They seemed little more than a gimmick or distraction, and I was much more comfortable using my favorite emoticons, ...

Emoji are already butting their heads with traditional words, but could they take over completely? Linguist Neil Cohn casts his expert eye over the pictures taking the world by storm. To many, emoji ...

Remember when everyone was worried that text-speak was killing the English language? At one point high school examiners in some places even began allowing students to write essays with the truncated ...

Emoji have become important. They’ve permeated our conversations and our messaging apps and our popular culture to a degree that no one could have anticipated just a few years ago, and when your phone ...

An election next year will settle an important question: Sneezing face or lizard? Avocado or person doing a cartwheel? Maybe all four will be chosen, along with two strips of bacon and disco-dancing ...

The fourth annual World Emoji Day (yes, it's a thing) is Monday, celebrating the explosion in use of the little characters that have changed the way people around the world communicate. Some have ...

And so the way language was shifting into these shorter, more digital communication styles, I think the Emoji became more popular because they could fill in that emotional blank that you were missing ...