ELT439_Sociolinguistics

Please match the following concepts in sociolinguistics and relevant examples: Social factors

• standard Swahili and local variety Kingwana

• family, friendship, and education

• two distinct varieties of the same language

• the word mana borrowed from Māori

Please match the following concepts in sociolinguistics and relevant examples: Linguistic repertoire

• participants, setting, and topic

• a community speaking more than three languages

• standard Swahili and local variety Kingwana

• two distinct varieties of the same language

Please match the following concepts in sociolinguistics and relevant examples: Domains of language use

• a community speaking more than three languages

• the word mana borrowed from Māori

• participants, setting, and topic

• standard Swahili and local variety Kingwana

Please match the following concepts in sociolinguistics and relevant examples: Diglossia

• a community speaking more than three languages

• two distinct varieties of the same language

• family, friendship, and education

• standard Swahili and local variety Kingwana

Please match the following concepts in sociolinguistics and relevant examples: Polyglossia

• a community speaking more than three languages

• participants, setting, and topic

• two distinct varieties of the same language

• standard Swahili and local variety Kingwana

Please match the following concepts in sociolinguistics and relevant examples: Lexical borrowing

• two distinct varieties of the same language

• family, friendship, and education

• a community speaking more than three languages

• the word mana borrowed from Māori

Domains of language use involve typical interactions between typical participants.

• TRUE

• FALSE

In monolingual communities, a variety means distinct/different languages.

• TRUE

• FALSE

In diglossia, a high (H) variety is the language of everyday communication.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Code-switching can signal the speaker’s ethnic identity and seek solidarity with the hearer.

• TRUE

• FALSE