...Arial to Emojis. Emojis are perhaps the most significant advancement in human communications as we know it. Exclusively designed for the Japanese, when acknowledged by apple, emoji begun to be so celebrated throughout the world as a form of universal communication that it caused to be in Oxford dictionary also. It facilitates populace with assorted orthographies and systems of writing, to attain a common ground of communication. This advocates that, as a language form, emojis shall contribute to increase cross-cultural communication clarity. Parallels between emojis and hieroglyphs and cuneiform indicates the universality of visual communication forms, rather than written syllabary. Today, we have a new cave wall in the form of screen and the new language it exhibits is very visual and textual. Our contemporary mediums of communication like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Websites, takes us back to a tribal village where we wrote on walls and we left messages behind. Emoji in specific, emoticons in general, not only allow us to communicate complex ideas and feelings way faster than words can but this new form of communication is giving us new ways of understanding and expressing the world around us. The increasing use of emojis in Mobile devices, Tablets and Web Typography raises the question if they are creating a new language amongst techno-savvy youth, or devaluing existing language. Stockton at Wired in this regard says, ‘emoji are more like an embryonic language. A cluster...
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... society’s chosen form of communication changes. From writing letters, to making phone calls and emails, Texting is today’s number one way of communication between young adults. 97 percent of young adults send text messages every day (Knight 1). Texting became popular when these young adults were teenagers, in 2000. It is also the best way to communicate with today’s teenagers, with 63 percent of teens sending messages every day (Ngak 1). While this form of communication may be relatively new, it is here to stay. The question is, what is the affect of texting on teens? Although people may believe that texting is detrimental to teenagers’ literacy rates in terms of spelling abilities due to the use of “textisms” or texting abbreviations, it actually has a positive effect. Texting is beneficial to teenagers because it affects teen literacy in a constructive way, by improving spelling and reading skills and giving teachers a tool to use in the classroom, while also evolving the English language. The first text message was sent in 1992. The next year, in 1993, Nokia created the first phone with texting capabilities. It only worked if the recipient of the text had the same cellular plan as the sender. Finally, in 1999, texting people on other networks was finally allowed and it began to take off. The standard texting plan at the time was 35 texts per month. 2002 was when texting really took off, with 250 billion texts sent that year. Text messaging became more common than calling...
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...In the article “On Internet Slang, IMHO” by Teddy Wayne is about how internet slang is used along with the link to a news article/newspaper are being used in social media. The newest industry like the Huffington Post write a short sentence or word along with a link or photo are called fragments.People who post links to an article say a word and then the link. The one word is a more important headline that what the article’s headline is when posting on twitter, facebook, or other social networking sites. Teens or other people tend to be more interested in the word they put than the link. In order to get people’s attention adults need to be more illiterate to get people's attention. One reason for that may be for the limited character count twitter...
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... But is this good or bad? Multi-modal language is simply any type of commination that isn’t in person, face-to-face. One of the most common forms of multi modal is through social media. Because of it’s popularity, social media is clearly having an impact on language, however there are advantages and disadvantages to the way they influence it. Advantages include that it is usually free, you are able to keep in contact with distant family and friends and make potential friends who have common interests as you. Disadvantages however are that there is legal and ethical issues such as cyberbullying and fraud, people may become addicted and distract themselves from reality and that people rely on social media and lose real life social skills. Majority of the people that use social media are teenagers. There are plenty different language features used in digital communication. They each have different purposes and effects. Emoji’s/Emoticons -- Emoji’s are used to show the overall emotion of the message. Through texting you are not able to see a person’s facial expression when they are talking to you like when you are face-to-face, emotions/emoji’s allows you to convey emotions whilst using little to no words at all, they also allow the other person to understand what tone the message is in. For example, if you send a light hearted message with no emojis, the receiver may take the message seriously, whereas with a smiley or winky face emoji added in, the...
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...Symbols like waving a white flag means to surrender or to give up. That is a universal to all people regardless of a language barrier. When I think of visual literacy I immediately think of what I see and how I interpret what I see. Adding visual literacy to business now mean interpreting what I see while engaging with others. After breaking down what I think visual literacy is I can draw a educated conclusion that I agree with the text book more than Brian Kennedy’s video. The text book states that “a group of vision related competencies a human being can develop by seeing, and at the same time, having and integrating other sensory experiences… to communicate with others… and comprehend and enjoy visual communication” Visual Literacy learning to see William Ryan Copyright © 2012, Bridgepoint Education, Inc. That definition seems to hit it right on the head whereas in Brian Kennedy video he explains visual literacy as “the ability to construct meaning from images”. Mr. Kennedy definition seems to be missing important aspects when used in a particular subject. Taking what you can see and not only get meaning but relate that meaning to the subject at hand with your peers would be a more complete definition. The text book definition would be more accurate in today’s world. Being able to comprehend which is to understand what you see and discuss your understanding with other’s for class, on any social media site can help you engage in an informative discussion. Having...
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...How Technology Has Changed Our Language Internet Knowledge: Some words have taken on a very new meaning thanks to technology. Not very long ago, the word “tweet” referred simply to something that birds do. Now it is also used to represent the process of posting a 140 character message on the social network Twitter. Social media’s been responsible for a lot of new words, for example tweeps, twitterverse and retweet. The word “friend” has become a verb, as in “she friended me on Facebook”. The term “check-in” no longer applies just to hotels and airports; these days it’s just as commonly used when someone reports where they are via a social network. Technology has also changed the way we write. Mobile phones have been responsible for a lot of the change, as users have moved towards texting as an everyday form of communication. For a start, WRITING IN UPPER CASE MEANS YOU’RE SHOUTING, while lower case writing is now the accepted form. Meanwhile, text language is full of abbreviations, missing vowels and acronyms. For example, the abbreviations LOL, OMG and gr8 are all widely used today but hadn’t been invented a few years ago. One of the drivers in this is that screen sizes and character limits are low, meaning that users need to abbreviate to fit their messages in. My Knowledge: ‘Emojis’ which are small digital images and ‘emoticons’ which are representation of a facial expression such as a smile or frown, formed by various combinations of keyboard characters are also...
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...Thinking and Language Reflection Worksheet Name: No name Reflect on your understanding of the relationship between thinking and language. Answer the following questions in 100-200 words each: a) How do individuals acquire and develop language? Individuals acquire languages from birth as infants. Some theorists have said that language acquisition "starts", in a sense, by our having a built-in or hard-wired capacity for language. Infants learn language by copying their parents their first word are most times mommy or dad. They learn first basic words that refer to common objects or actions. They learn to associate noises with actions by or objects by repeatedly experiencing both in close conjunction. Humans have the greatest ability to acquire languages before the ages of seven. As we grow older, though, we can continue to learn new languages (GCU textbook). b) How do you personally communicate your thoughts and how did you learn to do so? I’m not that good at communicating my thoughts. So when I do what helps me is to go over it again and again in my head. Then I communicate my thought this helps me keep from offending anyone. It also helps me make sure they understand what I'm saying. I learned to do this at a small age with the help from my father and teachers. I was in speech class in elementary school they would make us write down in a journal about our day then read it out loud to them. This has helped me develop my communication skills and express myself...
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...with their friends and family but with the world. Communication is a process in which we all engage on a daily basis even when the individual doesn’t know he or she is doing it, it can come across in a look to someone, body language, voice, email and text. There are all types of ways, yet in order to understand how to be effective in communication one needs to understand the communication process and its factors. For business leaders this type of information will make one, more knowledgeable in delivering and understanding a message. The communication cycle is very complex it entails such factors as; Sending, encoding, channeling, noise, message encoding. All these factors help the communicator and receiver understand the message they are trying to send weather it’s through speaking to an audience, person or a simple email. SENDER: This is the determining point when the communicator must be most effective. This individual is sending a message that must be clear and priciest with minimal confusion. This can be achieved by using appropriate language to convey message or determine and answer any future questions that the receiver may have. MESSAGE: This is the portion that explains the content of the message that is being sent. It can be an email, news, information or invitation. It’s important for both sender and receiver to know the tone in which the message...
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...The Shallows Response I found this article very interesting and true on some aspects About our language. I also learned a few things one thing being that the Greeks were the first to invent the phonetic alphabet. I never put too much thought into who created it or where the alphabet came from but reading this article made my mind drift off into wonderland and I was in awe, thinking “geez if it wasn’t for them then I wouldn’t be able to read today!” I thought the comparison to the phonetic and logographic language done by Tufts University was interesting, because the frontal lobe is very important to processing memory, it reminded me of text messaging and this emoji craze. We use pictures now instead of words to describe what’s going on in our day to day lives. They stated how logographic language activates or triggers a response in motoric memory skills, I see why the Chinese are so smart. I could not agree more with Theuth about writing when he said (“it will make the people of Egypt wiser and improve their memories” for it “provides a recipe for memory and wisdom”)pg54 In my opinion he was speaking the significance of writing into existence. For me writing is the only way that I can remember things. When it comes to homework and test assignments I find myself scoring higher because I took notes or rewrote words I didn’t know the meaning to. I also give the same advice to my daughter, who is in fourth grade, I make her rewrite her spelling words three times and it never...
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...Do you know those moments when your grandparents tell you “life was so much better in my days“? Or, “our youth is forgetting how to write”? I am sure you do! Just a few days ago I saw the news, that apple brought out new and more developed products. And as always my grandmother was there to give her opinion; “all this new technology destroys our grammar and language”. However, you will never guess where she read this. Exactly, ON HER IPHONE! And exactly that brought me to think about her point. How far is her statement acceptable or is she totally wrong? Well, obviously languages have changed throughout history and they are still changing today. As a matter of fact, in September 2015 the Oxford English Dictionary added hundreds of new words, phrases and senses to their online dictionary. If you just imagine how many new words must be added in a year… But, this is not the main point grandparents are going on about. Their main problem is our grammar and punctuation....
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... While some operate one or two accounts, there are those with multiple social media accounts for example Facebook, Twitter, Tagged, Viber, Whatsapp and so on. These types of media serve many different purposes including the replacement of traditional news forms, keeping in contact with friends and family members and to promote businesses and social events. The reality of it all, however, is that everything has both advantages and disadvantages. In this case we examine the negative effects of social media on the use of Standard English in the Jamaican Classroom. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to emphasize the extent to which the use of social media has contributed to the inappropriate use of the Standard Jamaican English and the poor expression in written language among our Jamaican students. Jamaica has been described as a bilingual society with the Jamaican Creole (JC) and Standard Jamaican English (SJE) being the major and minor languages. However the problem being faced is that while our students have good mastery of the JC, it has become a difficult task to teach them how to use the SJE competently and appropriately. There is continuing concern about the unsatisfactory performance of many candidates in English language examinations at all levels, the inhibitions of many learners who are affected by the ambivalent attitude towards the use of...
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...receiver will decode and interpret easily. From there, the message would have been presumed to be confirmed and understood by both the sender and the receiver. To ensure that the message has been encoded and decoded efficiently by both the sender and receiver, clarifying questions are asked by either party. The process of effective communication at a deeper look not only involves the mutual sharing and understanding of information, it includes the non verbal elements of understanding feelings, thoughts, wants, needs, and intensions of those involved in the communication process (Cheeseboro, O'Connor, & Rios, 2010). It is clear to understand that what it intended communication might not have been conveyed with words, but also body language. Effective communication is accomplished when the sender and receiver speak correctly, listen carefully to one another and ask clarifying questions. Only when these guidelines have been followed closely will effective communication...
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...For example, they make too many shortcuts. Sometimes these shortcuts are found in students essays. Such as “cuz,” an abbreviation that is commonly used for because. Another argument is that students cannot show emotion in their writing since texts message are sometimes too small. From here she goes on talks to her fellow students and coworkers about what they think about texting. Some coworkers say it's a great way for students to get their messages across in just a few words. Also, texting helps with a new way for a teenager to talk. She continues with her arguments, ” Teenagers have created an entirely new...
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...symbols, and shared meaning specific to the members of that group distinctive enough to distinguish it from others within the same culture or society “(Conley, You May Ask Your Self, P87). There exists a particular subculture which I have been deeply involved and been influenced by——Dongfeng Senior High School Subculture. Here is to discover the sociological meaning behind it and further analyze the characteristics of this subculture. Dongfeng Senior High School is located in Daqing, China, a city you may never heard of. First let me introduce Daqing, the city that has been rapidly expanding the last few years. Farming communities were moved to the outer layer of the city and replaced by the construction of tall buildings and malls, brand new schools were built to accommodate the ever-increasing student population, four-lane highways was broadened to eight-lane highways to solve traffic congestion. Number of people in the middle class and above increases, but still there is probably about 70% of the population is in the well-off level. Despite the fast developing of this city, the majority of people, especially those born in 1960s and 70s, despise this industrialization. They appreciate the peaceful atmosphere, longing to go back to the agricultural society, want their children to stay in this city and have a stable life. The total life way of people is disciplinary, conservative and adheres to the traditional lifestyle. But at the same time, teenagers...
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...making friends apps, and social media causes people to network on a whole new level making interactions more complicated. Erica Buddington evokes how there are more negatives than positives with technology in F Boy Literature as it impacts my generation through our relationships and how we view one another. The positives of technology in regard to relationships is the initial reason Buddington uses dating apps, as do most of our generation because it is easier. Most of the positives technology appear beneficial until one looks at both sides of the story or in this case screen. A benefit of communicating...
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