Özet:

The human being has used various arguments through the process of communication to leave strong influences in the transmission of emotions since the day of existence on earth to this day.  From the Egyptian civilization to the hieroglyphs, the emojis, which in today’s world provide individuals with an independent communication environment from time and place and are considered the heirs of the past, have become an important element of the communication network with the spread and ease of the use of technology.  Together with the digitalization of communication, today’s people, through these symbols and through the spread of a virtual language culture, have partially changed their feelings and ways of transmitting their thoughts. Communication evolved to the digital, the lack of time that the speed cycle brings, and the direction to the short and concrete instead of writing long messages, has increased the position of the symbols in the digital world every day. Today, it has also influenced communication and brought interaction together, creating emojis that mediate the digital world of the age and are a new common language in which individuals express their feelings, their thoughts. In this framework, an international application, some emojis in the WhatsApp application in Turkey are referred to in the translation of emotions and the meanings in international scale are examined.