Emoticons as a new means of communication in Italy and Germany

Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: 1,0, University of Bologna (Discipline della Comunicazione), course: Semiotica dei nuovi media, language: English, abstract: The main objective of this term paper is to analyse the semiotic function of the emoticons and the way people use them to express their emotions. The special fo...