SOCIOLINGUISTICS

4. Which family of languages do Romanian, Catalan and Romansh belong to?

• Germanic languages

• Romance languages

• Celtic languages

• Slavic languages

More than one way of saying the same thing. Speakers may vary pronunciation, word choice, or morphology and syntax.

• Decreolisation

• Ethnography of speaking

• Language crossing

• Language variation

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

• Pragmalinguistic

• Sociolinguistics

• Speech community

• Contact zones

Knowledge to speak or write in only one language

• Macro-sociolinguistics

• Monolingualism

• Pidginisation

• Sociolinguistic marker

• Sociopragmatic failure

Status can be defined as

• the use of formal and informal language in the different situation

• the way we speak to people depending on the social ranking.

• the purpose of communication, it could be referencial or affective.

• the way in which you communicate with people and the vocabulary you use.

What do you call a person who speaks/writes in only one language?

• Monolingual

• Pidgin

• Idiolect

Sociolinguistics is most appropriately defined as which of these?

• The study of human behavior

• The scientific study of sounds

• The scientific study of language usage

Another social factors that affect a particular code are

• status

• formality

• function and goal

• All the previous ones

Looks at the behaviors of entire speech communities

• Macro-sociolinguistics

• Monolingualism

• Pidginisation

• Sociolinguistic marker

• Sociopragmatic failure

walkin', singin', talkin'....

• lexical borrowing

• diaglossia

• code mixing

• polyglossia