The important to express your feeling

Everyday we are communicating with other people, most of it in writing. but many people don't know how to write in order to express their feeling. because of that reason Professor Fahlman, who's based at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, suggested to use smiley face at the end of their sentence in order to make a joke. this is happen to make a good impression in the audience. and after that people around the world using it as a habit when writing an email, chatting online or text message (Abc.net.au 2007).

Nowadays, emoticon are everywhere. people create different type of expression in order to make conversation by text more interesting. With using emoticon. we are able to break the awkward feeling and show our feeling to other people. Emoticons can be part of multimodality because multimodal are texts which are made of text with images (Walsh, 2006). With the used of emoticons in emails, the message being convey will be much easier to understand. It is very important to give the sentence alive and full of expession, to prevent miss understanding in text message. If last time we can only make an emoticon with a simple line, nowdays there is alot of website that provide a fancy emoticon to express your self.

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According to Schriver (1997, p.403), ‘it is a good idea to pair icons and labels which is to double signal an idea by giving the reader multiple ways to represent the same idea .’ So it is adviceable to use emoticon although we already put the same meaning as the text before. for example " happy :) " . Besides, emoticon can emphisis the meaning of your text and also make other imagine what kind of feeling should they put in the situation. for example: To start day; people usually great somebody. which one is the best option to express your feeling

A. Good morning !

B. Good morning : )

The text above is perfectly the same sentence, but because of the emoticon the impression towards the greeting is different. people tend to imagine the voice in option A, and they imagine people's face with the smile in the option B. that is why the emoticon is made a lot of difference.

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I'm personally, love when people using emoticon to express their feeling.sometimes when their using fancy emoticon that looks cute, make me imagining their expression is similiar with emoticon that they use. when it's really match, sometimes we can laugh because it's directly reflect their real expression. in the chat conversation, word never be enough. especially when it experiment by people that use to communicate face to face. without emoticon it might be a missunderstand between them. Sometime, I just lazt to put emoticon in my converstion, because I need to remember the symbol to make the emoticon appear. however, in using emoticon, I prefer to replace a particular sentence to be an emoticon rather that put additional symbol to make the icon appears.

such as I ❤ this post :)

Reference

Abc.net.au 2007, Emotions and email ettiquette, 18 October 2007, viewed 8 June 2010,http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2007/2064342.htm

Schriver, KA (1997), ‘The interplay of words and pictures’, in Dynamics in document design : creating texts for readers, Schriver, KA, Wiley Computer Pub, New York, pp. 361-441.

Walsh,M,2006, Textual shift: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts, Australian Journal of Languages and Literacy, vol.29, no.1, p.24-37. (Unisa Electronic Library)