The article deals with the technology of visualizing fictional text (poetry) with the help of emoji symbols in the Emoji Maker platform that not only activates students' thinking, but also develops creative attention, makes it possible to reproduce the meaning of poetry in a succinct way. The application of this technology has yielded the significance of introducing a computer being emoji in the study and mastering of literature is absolutely logical: an emoji, phenomenologically, logically and eidologically installed in the digital continuum, is separated from the natural language provided by (ethno)logy, and is implicitly embedded into (cosmo)logy. The technology application object is the text of the twentieth century Cuban poet José Ángel Buesa. The choice of poetry was dictated by the appeal to the most important function of emoji - the expression of feelings, emotions, and mood. It has been discovered that sensuality can reconstructed with the help of this type of meta-linguistic digital continuum. It is noted that during the emoji design in the Emoji Maker program, due to the technical limitations of the platform, it is possible to phenomenologize one's own essential-empirical reconstruction of the lyrical image. Creating the image of the lyrical protagonist sign, it was sensible to apply knowledge in linguistics, philosophy of language, psychology, psycholinguistics, literary criticism. By constructing the sign, a special emphasis was placed on the facial emogram, which also plays an essential role in the transmission of a wide range of emotions, moods, feelings of the lyrical protagonist. Consequently, the Emoji Maker digital platform allowed to create a new model of digital presentation of fiction, especially considering the psychophysiological characteristics of the lyrical protagonist. Thus, the interpreting reader, using a specific digital toolkit a visual iconic sign (smile) - reproduces the polylaterial metalinguistic multimodality of the sign meaning in fiction. The effectiveness of this approach is verified by the poly-functional emoji ousia, tested on texts of fiction.
Problem statement. Emoji signs are specific Unicode-based ideograms. Nowadays emotions and impressions of the written and read text can be conveyed in the form of punctiograms, pictograms and ideograms. Emoji is a multifunctional ideogram that not only saves one space in correspondence when communicating through social media, but also conveys shades of emotions, moods, feelings based on what one sees, hears, or reads. No wonder emoji in the modern world is considered a hieroglyph of the 21st century.
As modern literary criticism undergoes a process of depressurization, the allure of
digital capabilities of the Emoji Maker platform as a metalinguistic phenomenon to the
study of literary works will increase the interest of students of philology in works of
fiction, developing creative thinking [
The objective of the article. Development and testing of information and
communication technology application of presentation of different genres of fiction via
the Emojidom Smiley & Emoji Maker [
Information and communication technology (ICT), where technology is understood
as a set of methods, tools and implementation by a person of a complex process by
dividing it into a system of sequential interconnected procedures and operations that
are performed more or less uniquely and aim at achieving high efficiency of a certain
activity ([
Analysis of recent research and publications. According to Svitlana V.
Pidopryhora, “... the invasion of new technologies (computer, Internet) into the sphere
of literature - changes the nature of authorship, the structure of text, the essence of
reading and the form of interaction between the reader and the text, the level of
communication interaction author – reader – text” [
Emoji researchers are convinced that these characters have great hypertext potential.
For example, there have been attempts to translate the text of Herman Melville’s novel
“Moby Dick” via the appropriate emoji, called “Emoji Dick” [
Today, emoji is not only a linguistic tool, but also a psycho-physicalist one. By modeling this or that facial expression of an emoji, the author gives it the emotional touch that corresponds to the level of sensuality. The emoji face performs an informative function, that is, communicates to the interlocutor the emoji author’s response to a text, which greatly diversifies written communication.
Consequently, by making sense of poetry with the help of a self-designed emoji corps in Emoji Maker platform, philological students have the opportunity to expand the range of emotions, moods and experiences that arise in the process of reading poetry and especially its interpretation. Emoji face expression is a student’s creative approach to understanding the essence of prose and poetry. After all, all human feelings are expressed not so much in words as in facial expressions. So, we offer emoji modeling technique that reproduces the artistic meaning of poetry. 2
The following methods were used to solve the established problems: empirical – in the
course of conducting an experimental study of emoji modeling in class with students;
applying a systematic approach to consider an object as a system model; functional
approach – to determine the functions performed by the model; pedagogical modeling
[
Natural language in its ousia is that macrocosm that is reproduced in the continuum of
the world of things (Plato [
It is worth noting that the unilateralism of the structure is not universal to all speakers, but is identical to the distinctive thinking (DT) of a person, which, in turn, is an explanatory factor for the evolution of language. Let us describe this process with the following formula: where PO is a substantiated exponent, in fact, the material expression of a linguistic sign.
In the context of language simplification, the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” plays a key role [
The only field, where a sign synthesizes all its meanings, is exclusively a
metalinguistic environment – one where any linguistic unit is reproduced as a
linguisticcommunicative (Ferdinand de Saussure [
Essential-empirical analysis of computer being as a linguistic universal continuum
uninstalls the following ethno-barriers: folk-mythological arsenal, cultural paradigms,
socio-political discourses, etc. The key to this uninstallation is the phenomenon of
“emoji” – “ideograms or emoticons used in emails and web pages” [
Thus, the importance of implementing CB emoji in the study and interpretation of literature is absolutely natural: emoji, phenomenologically, logically and eidologically installed in the digital continuum, is separated from the natural language predicated by (ethno)logy, and implicitly embedded in (cosmo)logy. Understanding emoji is not subordinated to the nationality of the speakers. Another interpretation is that each speaker interprets the linguistic field in terms of its empirically-essential foundation, but this premise does not preclude the understanding of emoji.
Emphasizing the iconicity of the emoji corps, we appeal to the concept of modality
and multimodality. Charles Bally noted that modality is the soul of the proposal; like
thought, it is formed predominantly as a result of the active operation of the speaker
who speaks [
Before proceeding to the empirical analysis of poetry modelling, let’s define the algorithm by which, with the application of the Emoji Maker program, emoji is constructed taking into account formal and informative factors of a fictional text. 1. At the first stage, students are offered poetry for analysis. Emphasizing that poetry is imagery, and therefore its analysis must be accompanied by imaginative and critical thinking. 2. At the second stage, we propose to analyze the text using the Emoji Maker digital program, having outlined the purpose and tasks before. The program provides students with a limited list of options for creating emoji, and thus the students’ creative and creative skills, as well as the essential empirical experience that will allow them to explain and substantiate the color choices of the emoji and its components, play a special role in the task. 3. At the third stage, we must emphasize to the students: emoji models should correlate with the content of the poetry, as well as formally reflect the mood and feelings of both the lyrical hero and the reader.
We shall proceed with the example of the poetry of a twentieth century Cuban poet José
Ángel Buesa. The selection of poetry in this case is to appeal to the most important
function of emoji – the expression of feelings. In his lifetime, Jose Buesa acquired the
status of “enamored poet”, that is, a poet whose poetry is distinguished by sensuality in
his own metaphor. Therefore, we believe that it is appropriate to reconstruct this
sensibility with the help of the aforementioned metalinguistic digital continuum. We
apply the Emoji Maker digital platform [
We shall further disclose the completion of the sample study task: to recreate the
meaning of the following poem by José Ángel Buesa [
ACUÉRDATE DE MÍ
REMEMBER ME НЕ ЗАБУВАЙ МЕНЕ I. Cuando vengan las sombras I. When shadows of oblivion
del olvido advance a borrar de mi alma el expunging feeling from my
sentimiento, very soul, no dejes, por Dios, borrar el for God’s sake don’t erase the
nido case donde siempre durmió mi where dwell the thoughts pensamiento. to you I owe.
I. Коли прибудуть тіні
забуття, Щоб почуттів в душі спинити
існування, Благаю Богом, збережи
буття, В котрім завжди жило моє кохання.
II. Si sabes que mi amor jamás II. Should you so know my
olvida love fails not, que no puedo vivir lejos de ti that I can’t live afar from thee, dime que en el sendero de la Do tell me, on thy earthly
vida trot alguna vez te acordarás de mí. you will remember me.
III. Cuando al pasar inclines la III. When you bow your head
cabeza passing by, y yo no pueda recoger tu me unable to dampen your
llanto, tears, en esa soledad de la tristeza in that loneliness gone awry te acordarás de aquel que te You’ll remember my love
amó tanto. perseveres.
IV. No podrás olvidar que te IV. You cannot forget I’ve
he adorado adored thee con ciego y delirante frenesí with blind and delirious frenzy y en las confusas sombras del In the shadows of past
pasado, gone hazy, luz de mis ojos, te acordarás delight of my eyes, you’ll de mí. recall me.
II. Як знаєш, що любов моя
нетлінна, Що жить без тебе – за́ бік
узбереж, Скажи, що на путі життєво
цінній Одного разу мене ти
впом’янеш.
III. Коли в путі чоло огорне
сум, І я не зможу сліз твоїх
спинити, В цій одинокості печальних
дум Упом’янеш того, хто вмів
любити.
IV. Ти не забудеш мого
боготворіння, Безумного й сліпого до
безтями В прожитому, що заплелося
тінню, Мене згадаєш за очей свіча́ми.
V. El tiempo corre con denso
vuelo ya se va adelantando entre los
dos no me olvides jamás. ¡Dame
un recuerdo! y no me digas para siempre adiós. (José Ángel Buesa)
V. Time flies with thick
might, Far ahead separating us
two, Don’t forget me. Deliver a
token! and don’t fare me well anigh.
(Translation by Rusudan K. Makhachashvili)
V. Час тяжко простягається
по колу І вже випурхує між нас у це
буття. Не забувай! Не забувай мене
ніколи. Не говори мені «Прощай без вороття!»
(Translation by Anna O. Bakhtina)
The reconstruction of the poem should begin with its division. The poem contains of 20 lines, divided into 5 quatrains. We take each quatrain individually, so as a result we have to create 5 emoji characters. We reduce the compilation of the sign to deduction, that is, for each quatrain we define the universal qualities of emotion (UQE).
I. When shadows of oblivion advance, expunging feeling from my very soul, for God’s sake don’t erase the case where dwell the thoughts
to you I owe.
Lyrical Hero = Love + Memory. So, we create the image of a character – a lyrical hero who pleads to be remembered be his love. UQE: anxiety, sadness, fear, hope. The main feature (hereinafter referred to as the “MF”) is the PRAYER. 1. We take the yellow circle as the basis. Yellow in this case – as a symbol of hope, but at the same time – the sadness of separation. 2. The choice of eyes is justified by the pleading expressed by the lyric hero. The main feature – mirrored dilated pupils, reminiscent of tears. 3. The main expression of emotions rests in the eyebrows, because the quatrain expresses a plea. Therefore, the eyebrows rise to the central frontal part of the eye. 4. The corners of his lips are slightly down, which also testifies to the sadness of the lyrical hero. 5. The choice of the lyrical hero’s hairstyle correlates with his essence – romantic nature. Therefore, the hair is blond, not too short, disinfected. 6. In this quatrain supplications can also be defined by gesture: palms are opened, the geometry of which involves the coverage of the object of love. 7. In addition, pleading can be emphasized with conditional tears, which gives the lyrical character the desired effect.
II. Should you so know my love
fails not, that I can’t live afar from thee,
Do tell me, on thy earthly
trot you will remember me
Lyrical Hero = love + memory + incorruption. MF – ETERNITY. For the sake of this quatrain, in order to avoid repetition of images, one can portray a potential fiancée of a lyrical hero who mentions love. UQE: thoughtfulness, memories. 1. Let us pay attention to the lips of the alleged girl: it ought to be a red, full mouth, closed, which will indicate the reflections of the heroine, her memories. The pupils of the eyes will look sideways and downwards, which will again indicate the girl’s reflections. 2. Hairstyle is also important because the length of hair, color, style correlates with the character of the woman. So, based on the limited selection offered by Emoji Maker, we choose medium length, black hair. With this choice, we visualize a girl as a young person, ages 23-25. 3. In digital age, communication cannot be imagined without gadgets. With that in mind, let’s portray a girl with a mobile phone: so we can be interpretatively assumed that the girl’s memories are symbolically stored on the device (photos, videos, etc.) – which is easier for students to relate to. 4. We can complete the image with a universal denotation of love – a heart.
III. When you bow your head
passing by, me unable to dampen your tears, in that loneliness
gone awry You’ll remember my love
perseveres.
Lyrical Hero = Love + Sadness + Memory + Thoughts. MF is loneliness. UQE: sadness, memories, longing, despair. 1. It is worth noting that in Spanish speaking cultures, green is the color of hope in love [5, p. 15], and therefore, an emoji experiment with a green smiley is advisable. Because the hope of memories rests on the subject addressed in the poem by the lyrical hero, so here we portray the girl. 2. We leave the physiognomic characteristics the same as those in the second quatrain.
And to visualize of the UQE we add the denotation of sorrow – tears. IV. You cannot forget I’ve adored thee with blind and delirious frenzy
In the shadows of past
gone hazy, delight of my eyes, you’ll
recall me.
Lyrical Hero = Love + Memory + Time. OR is a passion. UQE: madness, passion. 1. Universal characteristic of red color – love, passion; anger. Given the context of the quatrains, we construct a smiley face of red color, which will symbolize the love of the lyrical hero, his passionate feelings. 2. The hairstyle of the lyrical hero remains unchanged, as in the previous image, symbolizing the romantic nature. Lips play a key role in this image. Let us portray them as half-open, which shows the interest of the lyric hero, his admiration for the woman. 3. However, the most fundamental function of the UQE described in this quatrain is the attribute of love and romance. So let’s depict the lyrical hero in heart-shaped glasses, a rose, and a brush that characterizes the hero as a dreamer, an artist who, in his own reminiscence, abstractly depicts the image of a beloved woman.
Lyrical Hero = Love + Time + Inevitability + Farewell + Memory. MF – timelessness. UQE: hope, memories, supplications, hopelessness. 1. The last quatrain demonstrates in the most detail the purpose of the lyrical hero as a kind of prayer to a woman: the feeling of not returning, the inevitability of time makes the hero appreciate his feelings. He also brings this up with a woman, pleading with her to remember his feelings as well. The poetic motif is that love will persevere as long as it is remembered. Let’s finish the visualization of poetry in the blue color of the emoticon, where blue is the universal symbol of hope, the fulfillment of a memory dream in time. 2. A plea not to say “Farewell!” we can depict through another universal sign - muted lips. 3. We complete the digital reconstruction with symbolic attributes: the pager (obsolete technology) reproduces the semantic nature of the image of time, the equivalents of which are being-timelessness-eternity-Cosmos-Eidos.
So, with the help of the Emoji Maker computer program, we introduce a visual reconstruction of J. A. Buesa’s poem “Remember Me”. This approach simplifies the isolation of the fundamental factors underlying poetry. First, considering the person’s physiology, we tried to single out meanings that suggest the presence of the following feelings: love, anxiety, sadness, fear, hope, memories, supplication, hopelessness. Visual affirmation of the senses contributes to a profound awareness of the fundamental concept of the poem – time, which can be correlated by the micro- and macro-cosmic elements of being (and in our case, computer being): being-timelessness-eternityCosmos-Eidos.
By recreating poetry through an ICT semiotic tool, students can potentially reproduce the meaning, imagery and content of the text only through the chain of emoji created:
Applying the Emoji Maker multimedia program when analyzing a work of art (poetry) in the classroom, one should adhere to the following guidelines: 1. Before moving on to modeling emoji, it is necessary to outline the main idea of the text, because it depends on the further characteristics of poetry and its visualization. 2. Describe the lyrical hero, outline his role and function in the text. Describe his mood, feelings, emotions. 3. It is worth remembering that the reception of the reader can be validated only by the feeling and emotions of the lyrical hero, but not by the content of poetry. 4. Visualize the appearance of the lyrical hero without departing from the context of poetry. Imagine the emotions of the hero, hypothetically outlining the physiognomistic characteristics relevant to the mood and feelings of the lyrical hero.
You can now move to image modeling in Emoji Maker. 5. It should be noted that the choice of options in the program is limited, and therefore, their use should be qualitative and contextual. 6. Each option used must be defendable – only under this condition the correlation of
ICT tools potential with the content of poetry can be traced. 4
A multidisciplinary approach to various disciplines (linguistics, literary studies, philosophy of language, psychophysionics, eye-tracking and text-mining technologies, etc.) in synthesis with structures of computer being, namely, with an emoji-body on the Emoji Maker platform allows to create a model of digital semiotic presentation of fiction. Thus, the reader-interpreter, using a specific technological toolkit, a visual iconic sign (smiley/emoji) reproduces the multilateral metalinguistic functionality of the meaning of a sign based on the artistic word. This approach significantly expands the subject of the study and can be applied in classes of linguistic and literary disciplines, as well as in classes in critical and analytical reading. Due to the powerful hyper-cybernetization in the world, research on the topic will acquire more and more interpretative layers, the study of which is impossible without a multidisciplinary approach.
The study outlined the multifunctionality of the computer being emoji corps based
on fiction. The Emoji Maker platform attempts to compile the image of a lyrical hero.
The created images, hieroglyphs of the 21st century, reproduce the multimodal concept
of the metalinguistic field. The sign is both an icon, a symbol and a text. On the verbal
language level emoji convey the meaning (dictum) of the signified, on the non-verbal
level – the meaning (modus) of the signified. Objective and subjective in a sign are
synthesized, and the reproduced image is read through the psycho-physiologist prism,
which reconstructs the essence of graphic mimesis in the pedagogical sphere. The
technical limitations of the Emoji Maker web platform have made it possible to
phenomenologize one’s own essential-empirical reconstruction of the image of a lyric
hero, which allows one to appeal to the cognitive modeling of content and the
development of skills in poetry. The basis of modeling is the theory of similarity, in
which absolute similarity is possible only by replacing one object with another,
identical to the first in form and content. However, as noted above, poetry is an imagery
which understanding depends to a great extent on the recipient’s essential empirical
experience and on its sensory typology, which corresponds to three main types – visual,
audio and kinesthetic [