Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics is most appropriately defined as

• the study of human behavior

• the scientific study of language usage

• the study of animal vocalizations

• the scientific study of vocal sounds

The linguistic term "code-switching" refers to

• using a secret or exclusive language in certain circumstances

• the use of jargon within a language

• the use of style shifting within a language

• a speaker's use of more than one language, dialect or register in an utterance or interaction

Which of the following would NOT be considered a part of sociolinguistics?

• the study of the attitudes of people towards certain speech characteristics

• the study of the sounds in spoken language

• the general perception of a dialect within a society

• the study of socioeconomic and/or political power factors and their influence on language change

Many factors may be relevant to people's relative social status, except?

• gender

• age

• tribe

• work

The combination of information about the way people from different social group speak and the way people speak in different contexts is called

• The interaction of social class and style

• Formal contexts and social roles

• Colloquial style or the vernacular

• divergence and convergence

The language of the groups of people with common interest or jobs, or the language used in situations associated with such group is

• style shifting

• register

• gendered language

• bilingualism

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

• Diglossia

• Interlanguage

• bilingualism

• Code-switching

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

• code mixing

• diglossia

• style

• slang

when two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other, this is

• multilingualism

• sociolinguistics

• languages in contact

• interlanguage

Relationship between language use and the social world, particularly how language operates within and creates social structures.

• sociolinguistics

• psycholinguistics

• anthropology

• lexicography