Diglossia

The term linguistics repertoire refers to

• a set of linguistic forms used under specific social circumstances

• a set of skills and knowledge a person has of one or more languages

• A social factor

• a scale related to purpose of communication

In monolingual speech communities, the choice of linguistic repertoire is made of

• one single language

• two languages

• Varieties of one single language

• none of the answers

in multilingual speech communities a choice of linguistics repertoire is made up of

• several languages and all linguistics varieties of all these languages

• several languages

• two languages

• none of the answers

The domain of language use indicates social context of interaction

• True

• False

Typical domains in speech communities include

• employment

• religion

• education

• any of the previous option

Each domain has distinctive, domain-specific factors

• addressee

• setting

• topic

• All of the options

diglossia is a situation in which two distinct varieties of a language are spoken within the same speech community

• True

• False

Diglossia is a characteristic of speech individuals rather than communities

• True

• False

The term diglossia describes societal or institutionalised bilingualism, where two varieties are required to cover all the community’s domains.

• True

• False

in context of diglossia, two distinct varieties of the same language are used in community

• high variety

• low variety

• both of the options

• none none of the options