LCS4556 Languages in Contemporary Society Sample Midterm Test

Language death is a fighting and ongoing problem, ______

• as when a language disappears, English culture and customs are adopted by speakers.

• as languages have been disappearing more slowly in these last decades due to the growth of English.

• as languages are becoming extinct at an ever increasing rate. This means that a culture, its customs, and a whole unique way of seeing the world is lost.

• as when a language disappears, we can still revitalize it.

What does the slang term "crashed" mean in the sentence?

• eat a large amount of food

• relax with friends

• to bargain

• to fall asleep hard

Which of the following is a jargon word?

• FYI (For your information)

• CYE (check your mail)

• TD (Temporary duty)

• GOAT (Greatest of All Time)

Language variation according to the situations is called....

• register

• dialect

• lingua franca

• pidgin

The map below demonstrates ______. Which is the following is NOT correct?

• isogloss

• regional variation

• social variation

• dialect continuum

6. Pidgins have no native speakers.

• True

• False

In the following conversion, 'nature calls' is a jargon. A: I am sorry, I need to be excused. B: Nature calls. It is understandable.

• True

• False

Are British English and American English dialects of the same language? Why? Justify your answers with examples.

Sino-Tibetan language family is a large language family that contains more than 500 distinctly related languages. Explain the linguistic diversity among this language family.