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- medium: The sign is printed on a piece of wood that you hang in or outside of your home.
- domain: The context of the sign is using the phrase “E komo mai” to welcome someone into or to your home.
- audience: The sign is intended for people who are visiting one’s home, both local and nonlocal.
- function: The sign is trying to tell people that they are welcome at the place where this sign is hung.
- language: The language that is dominant on this sign is Hawaiian, “E komo mai” with a little bit of English, “Welcome”.
The phrase “E komo mai” means “Welcome” in Hawaiian.
Multilingual Hawaiʻi
43951
United States
Honolulu
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- medium: The sign is printed on a building located at Ward Village.
- domain: The context of the sign is that it is a dry cleaners that also washes and folds your clothes for you, making it aloha fresh.
- audience: The sign is intended for people who are passing by the area. It is intended for nonlocals and locals.
- function: The sign is trying to inform people that there is a dry cleaners located there in Ward Village.
- language: The language that is dominant on this sign is English, “Dry Cleaners” with a little Hawaiian, “Aloha”.
The word “aloha” means “hello, goodbye, love” in Hawaiian.
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