“Emoji Dick,” a line-by-line translation into emoji of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, “Moby-Dick,” was published in 2010. Five years later, the Oxford English Dictionary chose the “face with tears of ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what of emoji, that ever-increasingly important part of our lexicon? Face with Tears of Joy: A natural history of emoji by Keith Houston has some insights, ...

The “face with tears of joy” emoji represents “a crying with laughter facial expression,” according to Wikipedia. “The emoji is used in communication to portray joking and teasing on messaging ...

"Emoji blew up right around 2011," said Laura Miller in Slate, and we're lucky they did. So many more of our online text interactions would have led to misunderstandings and arguments without the ...

Historian Houston (Empire of the Sum) chronicles the rise of the emoji in this fun romp through the evolution of digital language. He begins the account in Japan, where teenagers’ widespread use of ...