Meaning of manga mark | Babel Free

Definitions

A cartoon icon; a symbol used to indicate emotion, movement, etc. in a drawing; especially one used in or associated with Japanese-style manga.

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“Cultural learning experiences are required to understanding manga''' marks. For example, adults of Botswana interpreted a sweat⟳ mark⟳ used in Western comics as blood, rain⟳, and tears (Byram and Garforth, 1980).”

“In a previous preliminary experiment⟳, we determined facial expressions for the robot KOBIAN-R with manga marks. Those expressions included four manga marks as “Cross popping veins” for “Anger”, “Tear⟳ mark⟳” for “Sadness”, “Vertical lines” for “Fear” and “Wrinkle” for “Disgust”.”

“Nakazawa (2005b) asked the meaning of the twelve manga''' marks to a sample of kindergartners, first-, fourth-, sixth-, and eighth-graders. Understanding of manga''' marks progressed along with grade level (Figure⟳ 7.2)”

“The comprehensive techniques that composes manga is immature. But there is a very high expressiveness in some aspects, such as the creation of a face⟳ viewed from the front and the expression of expressions using manga marks.”

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