Prestige Dialects
American speech
English
What do companies display to sell their products?
Logos
Semiotics
What kind of deixis is illustrated by the italic part of this sentence?
"I heard this course was supposed to be easy."
Spatial and temporal
Why did Shakespeare only write with pens?
Pencils confused him. 2B or not 2B?
Arabic is considered the ___ language
H-language
A smiley is a type of
emoji
Sign whose significance is based on contiguity of relationship
Index
Proximity to or distance from the speaker
Spatial
Opinions are like birthdays..
which country is Swiss German used in everyday life?
Switzerland
Traffic sign who shape is an octagon
Stop sign
Mocking description involving a combination of Spanish linguistics and English pronunciation
Spanglish
Expression used to point to a time
Temporal
Why did I go to a seafood restaurant?
Just for the halibut
Standard dialect of Paris
French
a form of social tagging
#Hashtag
Sign whose significance is based on resemblance
Icon
which word(s) are considered Temporal?
Here, you, about, tiny
Here
also temporal:
there, this, that
I've been researching some useless facts...
Want some examples?
I have found out that there are over 10,000 different types of lice.
And that's just off the top of my head.
Beijing dialect as spoken by the commoners of the early to mid 20th century
Mandarin
software logo in the shape of a bitten fruit
Apple
Sign whose significance is based on an arbitrary relationship
Symbol
Which word is considered temporal deixis?
yesterday, today, tomorrow
all of them
Studying for finals is like playing Tetris
just when you seem to get the facts to fit together, all that you thought you learned disappears.