Even when emoji are used to substitute for words, we still understand the sentence. But how does that work? Do we interpret an emoji primarily as an image or as a word? To find out, a research team ...
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The study was carried out in a collaboration between Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler, assistant professor for Digital Forensic Linguistics at the German Studies Institute at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), ...
If a word in a sentence is replaced by an image, we still understand its meaning. But the detour via the image can take time. Even when emoji are used to substitute for words, we still understand the ...