Stereotypes: Unconscious Rules Of Using Emoticons

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ANTHROPOLOGY: RULES OF EMOTICONS

Why We Use Emoticons
Julia Parente
ANT100

ANTHROPOLOGY: RULES OF EMOTICONS
The Unconscious Rules of Using Emoticons A scholarly written article The Communicative Functions of Emoticons in Workplace E-Mails will be an additional source to support the idea of the use of emoticons in instant messaging discourse. The New York Times article Who Made The Emoticon? by Pagan Kennedy is a factual article on the history of the emoticon and the progress and value it has made to today’s society. This article states the use of the emoticon and how it could possibly enhance the emotions that’s being portrayed through text.
Conventional Faces: Emoticons in Instant Messaging Discourse is a peer-reviewed article on the study of the emoticon and it is used in a sentence. The discourse of the
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ANTHROPOLOGY: RULES OF EMOTICONS Pagan Kennedy demonstrates satirical yet factual evidence in her article on the emoticon in the New York Times. The author presents the idea of emoticons being a sufficient way of expressing one’s feelings rather than typing them out. She also thawed out the idea of how an emoticon can lighten the mood when telling a harmless joke. In relation to my essay, this example helps justify my argument of how the emoticon is a quick and simple way of expressing how you feel. Whether it is through a happy face, sad face, angry face the reader is able to understand how you are feeling on the other side of the screen without physically seeing you. Conventional Faces: Emoticons in Instant Messaging Discourse makes an observation in an experiment that they conduct that people would much rather type or send an emoticon than to type out how they feel. The emoticon is more rhetorical than the formal written

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