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In written communication, with the advent of the digital age, social and online messaging often make use of symbols that not only represent animals or objects, but even claim to depict emotions through yellow faces that attempt to reproduce in a stylized manner our facial expressions. In this study, participants were asked to communicate their mood through figurative and abstract drawings: a large number of these drawings depicted symbols conventionally used in long-distance communication, such as emoji and emoticons or weather symbols. It was pointed out that, at the linguistic level, emoji/emoticons are used almost universally and standardized to communicate moods, especially positive ones. Given the massive use of weather symbols, it has been observed in the drawings that an association is given between meteorological states and moods that traces the common linguistic attribution.
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Informazioni e statistiche sull’uso delle emoji su https://emojipedia.org (3/7/2022 16:42)
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