Sociolinguistic Final Test

Sociolinguistics studies

• The language as a human faculty

• The branches of linguistics

• The relationship between language and society

The social factors that account for using a particular variety are

• participants

• setting

• topic

• All the previous ones

• none

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

What are social varieties

• The types of languages

• refers to the different ways speakers use the language.

• The varieties of dialect

• Different ways to accent

Social Dimensions of Language can be defined as

• the place where communication is develop

• The use of formal or informal languages in communication.

• the communicative competence of the speaker

• the characteristics of the context that affect how language is used.

Bilingual speakers switch from one language to the other in the same discourse.

• Code-switching

• Creolisation

• Diglossic

• Interlanguage

Process (after pidginisation) speakers develop an elaborated code that can accommodate the full range of life's functions.

• Code-switching

• Creolisation

• Diglossic

• Interlanguage

Two languages or varieties of a language exist side by side, one is used for formal situations and the other for informal situations.

• Code-switching

• Creolisation

• Diglossic

• Interlanguage

Use of more than one language, either by an individual or a community of speakers

• Languages in contact

• Linguistic relativity

• Micro-sociolinguistics

• Multilingualism