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Adjacency Pairs
Bald On Record F.T.A.
Communicative Competence
Complete Participation
Emic
Ethnography
Etic
Face
Face Theory
Face Threatening Act (F.T.A.)
Honorific
Icon
Index
Indexicality
Linguistic Determinism
Linguistic Relativity
Linguistic Sign
Negative Politeness
Off Record F.T.A.
Participant Observation
Passive Participation
Politeness
Positive Politeness
Referent
Signifier
Symbol
T/V Distinction
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Definition: A linguistic sign that has an arbitrary relationship between the signifier and is meaning.
Source: Language Files, eleventh edition, edited by Vedrana Mihalicek and Christin Wilson