The Digital Age has significantly changed how people communicate.Thanks to technology,people have a large variety of communication tools to choose from,such as emails or instant messaging applications,that allows comm...The Digital Age has significantly changed how people communicate.Thanks to technology,people have a large variety of communication tools to choose from,such as emails or instant messaging applications,that allows communication to be easier,quicker and,to a certain extent,more efficient.In this technological scenario,emojis play a fundamental role as a kind of universal form of communication.Furthermore,thanks to translation,which acts as a bridge for people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds,communication can cross national barriers and spread worldwide.Communication and translation share a common goal that is'mutual understanding'.What happens,therefore,when translation meets both technology and emojis in the Digital Age?A new form of communication through translation has emerged,that is emoji translation.The aim of this paper is to show,through a series of examples,how emojis have been recently employed in communication and translation in an attempt to establish whether their use,besides creativity,can be universally accepted and understood worldwide.展开更多
文摘The Digital Age has significantly changed how people communicate.Thanks to technology,people have a large variety of communication tools to choose from,such as emails or instant messaging applications,that allows communication to be easier,quicker and,to a certain extent,more efficient.In this technological scenario,emojis play a fundamental role as a kind of universal form of communication.Furthermore,thanks to translation,which acts as a bridge for people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds,communication can cross national barriers and spread worldwide.Communication and translation share a common goal that is'mutual understanding'.What happens,therefore,when translation meets both technology and emojis in the Digital Age?A new form of communication through translation has emerged,that is emoji translation.The aim of this paper is to show,through a series of examples,how emojis have been recently employed in communication and translation in an attempt to establish whether their use,besides creativity,can be universally accepted and understood worldwide.
