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The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats
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The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy CatsThe Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats

Drawing from disciplines as diverse as linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience, The Emoji Code explores how emojis are expanding communication and not ending it.

For all the handwringing about the imminent death of written language, emoji―those happy faces and hearts―is not taking us backward to the dark ages of illiteracy. Every day 41.5 billion texts are sent by one quarter of the world, using 6 million emoji. Evans argues that these symbols enrich our ability to communicate and allow us to express our emotions and induce empathy―ultimately making us all better communicators.

 
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Tags: Emoji, emoji, these, symbols, enrich, Faces, Scaredy, Smiley
Applied Phonetics
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Applied PhoneticsThe title Applied Phonetics has been given to this book to suggest its main intent: to apply phonetic symbols and nomenclature to the description of the principal varieties of the English language in America and the British Isles. Actually, the name is not entirely accurate in respect to the first part of the book, where phonetic modes of thought and phonetic symbols are given preliminary presentation .without specific application.
 
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Tags: Phonetics, Applied, phonetic, given, symbols
Phonetics Karaoke - Ain't no Sunshine
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Phonetics Karaoke - Ain't no SunshinePhonetics Karaoke - Ain't no Sunshine

A funny way to practise phonetic symbols. This is a karaoke version of the song Ain't no subshine but in PHONETIC SYMBOLS. 
 
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Tags: SYMBOLS, PHONETIC, Phonetics, Karaoke, Sunshine, subshine
Say It With Symbols: Making Sense of Symbols (Connected Mathematics 2)
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Say It With Symbols: Making Sense of Symbols (Connected Mathematics 2)Maths - grade 8
Say It With Symbols: Making Sense of Symbols, explores the topic that beginning algebra used to focus on almost
exclusively: the use of symbols.
This mathematics curriculum emphasizes the meaning behind the symbols. This helps students build their own understanding of the basics of algebra and its usefulness for solving problems.
REUPLOAD for the TEACHERS'S GUIDE NEEDED
 
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Tags: Symbols, symbols, Sense, algebra, Making
Netymology: From Apps to Zombies: A Linguistic Celebration of the Digital World
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Netymology: From Apps to Zombies: A Linguistic Celebration of the Digital World

Composed of 100 bite-sized entries of 400 to 600 words each, Netymology weaves together stories, etymologies and analyses around digital culture’s transformation and vocabulary. Chatfield presents a kaleidoscopic, thought-provoking tour through the buried roots of the symbols, speech, and mannerisms we have inherited from the digital age: from the @ and Apple symbols, to HTML and Trojan horses, to the twisted histories of new forms of slang, memes, text messages and gaming terms; how language itself is being shaped by technology, how it is changing us.
 
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Tags: Netymology, digital, symbols, memes, messages