Emoticons

Maja Katarina Tomić, Marijana Martinez and Tedo Vrbanec

FIP - Journal of Finance and Law, 2014, vol. 1, issue 1, 35-42

Abstract: “Emoticon (“icon mood“) is used in Instant Messaging. Nowadays it is unthinkable to write messages without emoticons whose function is to display the mood or facial expression of sender. Emotion is often used to alert recipients of the message to the real meaning of the message and may improve interpretation of plain text. Emoticons help compensate for the nonverbal aspect of communication in the virtual world of instant messages. This paper reviews styles that are now in use in the world, the history of origin of emoticons and their property rights.

Keywords: emoticons; history of emoticons; emoticon styles; possibilities of emoticon use in Instant Messaging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D8 L86 N70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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