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  Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and their interpretation today. The idea of social semiotics came about in 1978 with the publication of Michael Holiday's book Language as Social Semiotic . This is important because social semiotics changes everyday with trends coming and going and widespread communication due to the internet. In the article General Sociolinguistics, social semiotics and semiotics of culture - ex pluribus unum? Forty years after Language as Social Semiotic by Suren Zolyan they state that social semiotics is associated with three sources:  Functional linguistics Discourse analysis Semiotics of culture In the article Visual social semiotics: understanding how still images make meaning by Claire Harrison states that there are three categories of images: Icons, which are images that give off the feeling of similarity. Index, are images that are recognizable due to the fact that we understand the relationship between the image and what it stands for ...