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Title	Meaningful Signs—Emoticons
Authors	Ruan, Li
Abstract	As a complement of chat-room talks, emoticons are combinations of certain punctuations, numerals, keyboard characters and special symbols designed to convey an emotion, an appearance, an action, an object and even the tone of chatting. It is playing a unique role in the online communication.
Publisher	ACADEMY PUBLISHER
Date	2011-01-01
Source	Theory and Practice in Language Studies Vol 1, No 1 (2011)
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