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.

Oxford Dictionaries has recognized the influential and complex function of emoji by giving one of the symbols its highest honor. For the first time in Oxford’s history, the Word of the Year is a ...

it is just not a word. It's an emoji, after all, or an emoticon, or a pictograph. Now, I'm all in favor of playfulness when it comes to matters linguistic. And I'm entirely persuaded that it's ...

They were called emoji—a word that originally meant “pictograph” or “icon” in general, for a button like “save” or “quit.” The first set of emoji launched on DoCoMo phones in 1999. Other Japanese ...

“Emoji are becoming an increasingly rich form of communication, one that transcends linguistic borders,” he said in a statement. And their choice for the word of the year, he added, embodies ...

Have you ever sent a work email, text, or other message with an emoji in it? Chances are you have. The word generation company WordList Finder recently surveyed 1,028 people who work from home ...