Section outline

    • [1] This is the second of five lessons devoted to non-verbal communication (introduction, facial expressions and gestures, body language and posture, non-verbal communication across cultures, and non-verbal communication in virtual contexts). Each lesson should take students approximately 2 hours to complete. Suggested answers, bibliography and additional resources are provided at the end of each lesson. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, is open for all to use and modify with attribution to BADGE- Becoming a Digital Global Engineer (Project 2019-1-FR01-KA203-063010 - 167 512 512).

      [2] All images in this lesson were taken from www.pixabay.com (Accessed February 2022).

      [3] To distinguish between emojis and emoticons, see explanation in https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-emoji-and-emoticons

      [4] Copyright permission granted by BBC News Permissions Team (EO) on 18 July 2022. The images and tweets posted in the original article have been removed to protect original owners’ copyrights.

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      [6] In the original article, the tweet by Kim Zetter states “In Israel, you generally use this gesture when you’re annoyed or angry with someone”

      [7] In the original article, the tweet by Emile Hokayem states “This emoji represents several things in the Arab world, including two extremes […] (slowly, wait, calm down, patience, etc.) or […] (you will see what will happen to you, as in a threat).”

      [8] Lance Ulanoff is cited in the original BBC article with this comment.

      [9] @SoshIU is quoted in the original text as “MANDU YOU”. MANDU HEART.

      [10] To learn more about the Unicode standards and development, see https://home.unicode.org/