Our Critic Doesn't Entirely <3 'The Emoji Code'
Vyvyan Evans' new book about the rise of emojis casts the little icons as part of human language's long-running struggle to evolve — but too often it reads like a textbook, didactic and dry.
Jason Heller is a senior writer at The A.V. Club, a Hugo Award-winning editor and author of the novel Taft 2012.
There's no ignoring emojis. Subtly yet inexorably over the past few years, those tiny, graphic symbols representing happiness and frustration — not to mention an increasing host of other emotions, actions, and objects — have become ubiquitous. And the more we rely, professor and linguistics expert Vyvyan Evans sheds light on how and why this new language he calls Emoji came about — and where it might be headed.
