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Sue and Todd work together, but never see each other outside of work. Their social network is

• Uniflex

• Multiplex

• Plexity

• Complex

A language serving as a means of communication between speakers whose first languages differ.

• Glossia

• Lingua franca

• Pidgin

• Creole

A travel agent in Wales using Welsh when talking to Welsh clients and English to English clients.

What is it?

• Diglossia

• Code-switching

• Divergence

• Convergence

The second part of a sequence of utterances which is unexpected, less frequent or more structurally complicated.

Example: A: Would you like tea?

B: Coffee would be better thanks.

• Interruptions

• Overlaps

• Dispreferred second pair part

• Preferred second pair part

Athena and her family moved from Crete to New Zealand ten years ago. Nowadays, when she talks to her younger brother, she tends to use both Greek and English – often in the same utterance.

• Code-switching

• Code-mixing

• Bilingualism

• Act sequence

This is an example of ....

A: hello

B: hello

A: how are you?

B: I’m fine thanks

• Codification

• Accent

• Adjacency pairs

• Booster

Relaxed talk on familiar topics between friends in informal settings (stereotypically considered characteristic of women’s interactions) which functions to build and maintain social relationships.

• Intensifier

• Gossip

• Hedge

• Hypercorrection

Changing codes between sentences.

• Interrogative

• Intra-sentential linguistic constraints

• Intra-sentential switching

• Inter-sentential switching

Boundary which distinguishes an area on a map where a certain linguistic feature is found from areas in which it is absent.

• Koine

• Jargon

• Isogloss

• Indicator

When a community moves from using one language to using another for everyday communication. This can be a gradual process over several generations.

• Language shift

• Language revival

• Language maintenance

• Language planning