Sociolinguistic Artifacts

This short animation created by Jack Stauber is a perfect example of a mismatch in ideology and practice between the cashier and customer. The cashier sees the customer approach his register and he asks him if he found everything he was looking for. The customer responded with "good". This response shows that the customer has been exposed to so many situations with cashiers asking him how he was that he ended up producing an automatic response. After the incorrect response the cashier and customer stare at each other in silence. This shows the dysfunction of their short conversation.