If You Use the Internet, You Are Probably Familiar with Emoticons

question 176

Multiple Choice

If you use the Internet, you are probably familiar with emoticons: facial expressions displayed using a combination of typographic figures,

• A) emblem
• B) display rule
• C) affect blend
• D) decoding difference
• E)g., :-) for a smile. Asian countries have their own set of emoticons; in these (which are viewed without having to turn one's head), there are different smiling facial figures for a man smiling (^_^) and a woman smiling (^ . ^), since in Japan, women are not supposed to exhibit a wide, uninhibited smile. This difference between the men's and women's emoticons in Japan is due to a(n) __________.

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