Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal "smiley face" in a computer message, says Daniel Lovering for the BBC. Language experts say the smiley face and other emotional icons, known as emoticons, have given people a concise way in e-mail and other electronic messages of expressing sentiments that otherwise would be difficult to detect.Emoticons reflect the likely original purpose of language — to enable people to express emotion, said Clifford Nass, a professor of communications at Stanford University. The emotion behind a written sentence may be hard to discern because emotion is often conveyed through tone of voice, he said.
"What emoticons do is essentially provide a mechanism to transmit emotion when you don't have the voice," Nass said. In some ways, he added, they also give people "the ability not to think as hard about the words they're using."
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Marina Velez
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Marina Velez
Cambridge, United Kingdom
I am a qualified teacher of Spanish as a foreign language having studied at Universidad Nebrija, Madrid and I hold a Cambridge Certificate English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA). I have taken Social Anthropology and Social Psychology at the Institute of Continuing Education University of Cambridge. I have taught English and Spanish as foreign languages extensively on a private basis, at primary schools, in companies and at institutes of adult education (e.g. Volksuniversiteit in Utrecht, The Netherlands, where I taught English Literature). I have trained teachers of foreign languages and given TEFL seminars to local teachers in Nepal. I am also an artist, a mother of three, a coordinator for the NGO INFONepal, have travelled extensively and lived in different countries (Argentina, Spain, USA, The Netherlands and UK) all of which has given me the patience, creativity, socio-cultural awareness and sense of humour I employ in my lessons. I also enjoy English Literature, archery, jazz and medieval music and flamenco dancing.
Cambridge, United Kingdom
I am a qualified teacher of Spanish as a foreign language having studied at Universidad Nebrija, Madrid and I hold a Cambridge Certificate English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA). I have taken Social Anthropology and Social Psychology at the Institute of Continuing Education University of Cambridge. I have taught English and Spanish as foreign languages extensively on a private basis, at primary schools, in companies and at institutes of adult education (e.g. Volksuniversiteit in Utrecht, The Netherlands, where I taught English Literature). I have trained teachers of foreign languages and given TEFL seminars to local teachers in Nepal. I am also an artist, a mother of three, a coordinator for the NGO INFONepal, have travelled extensively and lived in different countries (Argentina, Spain, USA, The Netherlands and UK) all of which has given me the patience, creativity, socio-cultural awareness and sense of humour I employ in my lessons. I also enjoy English Literature, archery, jazz and medieval music and flamenco dancing.
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