{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/studying-cultural-differences-in-emoji-usage","title":"Studying Cultural Differences in Emoji Usage across the East and the West","arxiv_id":"1904.02671","date":"2019-04-04","proceeding":null,"authors":["Sharath Chandra Guntuku","Mingyang Li","Louis Tay","Lyle H. Ungar"],"abstract":"Global acceptance of Emojis suggests a cross-cultural, normative use of\nEmojis. Meanwhile, nuances in Emoji use across cultures may also exist due to\nlinguistic differences in expressing emotions and diversity in conceptualizing\ntopics. Indeed, literature in cross-cultural psychology has found both\nnormative and culture-specific ways in which emotions are expressed. In this\npaper, using social media, we compare the Emoji usage based on frequency,\ncontext, and topic associations across countries in the East (China and Japan)\nand the West (United States, United Kingdom, and Canada). Across the East and\nthe West, our study examines a) similarities and differences on the usage of\ndifferent categories of Emojis such as People, Food \\& Drink, Travel \\& Places\netc., b) potential mapping of Emoji use differences with previously identified\ncultural differences in users' expression about diverse concepts such as death,\nmoney emotions and family, and c) relative correspondence of validated\npsycho-linguistic categories with Ekman's emotions. The analysis of Emoji use\nin the East and the West reveals recognizable normative and culture specific\npatterns. This research reveals the ways in which Emojis can be used for\ncross-cultural communication.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02671v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.02671v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"studying-cultural-differences-in-emoji-usage","repo_url":"https://github.com/tslmy/ICWSM2019","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"culture","task_name":"Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction"},{"task_slug":"diversity","task_name":"Diversity"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}