Mid-term test Szociolingvisztika és pszicholingvisztika ANO1111

A process by which speakers of a language slowly stop using it, resulting in its dying out.

• language loss
• language loyalty
• language maintenance
• language of wider communication

The ability (or lack of it) of speakers of a language to stand up to the pressure of more powerful ones.

• language loyalty
• language loss
• language planning, or language policy
• language shift

A situation where speakers continue to use a language even when there is a new language available.

• language standardization
• language maintenance
• language loss
• language loyalty

Language chosen by speakers of several different languages to communicate with each other.­

• metaphorical switching
• language of wider communication
• language loss
• language loyalty

Any effort to modify language form or use.

• language of wider communication
• language loyalty
• language planning, or language policy
• language shift

Changes in the degree of functional use from one language to another.

• language standardization
• mixed code
• language shift
• microsociolinguistics

The imposing of a norm on the grammar and pronunciation of a language.

• metaphorical switching
• language maintenance
• mixed code
• language standardization

Area of sociolinguistic study which concentrates on the use of a variety and its social significance.

• language shift
• language standardization
• language planning, or language policy
• macrosociolinguistics or the sociology of language

Changing from one language to another to signal a change in role relationship.

• metaphorical switching
• language maintenance
• language of wider communication
• mixed code

Area of sociolinguistic study which concentrates on linguistic variables and their significance.

• microsociolinguistics
• language shift
• macrosociolinguistics or the sociology of language
• language planning, or language policy