Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics studies

• The language as a human faculty

• The branches of linguistics

• The relationship between language and society

Sociolinguists use the term variety to refer to

• a set of linguistic forms used under specific social circumstances

• a scale related to the purpose of a conversation

• the setting of the conversation

An example of variety is:

• Ramal Norwegian local dialect

• Bokmal Norwegian standard dialect

• None

• Both

The social factors that account for using a particular variety are

• participants

• setting

• topic

• All the previous ones

• none

This is one social dimension:

• Social Distance

• a science

• a type of variety

The functional scale is related to:

• The purpose or topic of interaction

• the participants

• The place of interaction

A linguistic variation may include variation in:

• vocabulary

• sounds

• grammatical constructions

• dialects

• any of the previous options

Variety is a broad term which includes different accents, styles, dialect

• YES

• NO

A variety can be analyzed in terms of formality scale

• YES

• NO

Sociolinguists aim to describe sociolinguistics variation and explain why it happens

• YES

• NO