Midterm Practice

A language is a _______ with a navy or an army.

• Register

• Repertoire

• Dialect

• Accent

Accent is a manner of speaking that is typically distinguished by what aspect of linguistics?

• Phonology

• Morphology

• Syntax

• Semantics

Which scholars are associated with the terms langue/parole and competence/performance?

• Bucholtz; Chomsky

• Ahearn; Bucholtz

• Saussure; Chomsky

• Lippi-green; Silverstein

(1)“The abstract and usually unconscious knowledge that one has about the rules of a language” and (2) “The ability to use and interpret language in a wide variety of contexts effectively.

What two kinds of competence are being defined?

• Register and Grammatical

• Communicative and Referential

• Register and Interactional

• Grammatical and Communicative

Which is not a function of language included in Roman Jakobson’s language model?

• Metalinguistic

• Syntactic

• Referential

• Poetic

Answer explanation

The image here depicts all of the basic functions of language according to Jakobson.

_________ are ways of using language that are associated with particular roles, social domains, and cultural types?

• Indexicality

• Competence

• Repertoire

• Register

The study of how a language is used in context

• Syntax

• Prosody

• Phonology

• Pragmatics

A _______ has an arbitrary relationship with its real world concept.

• Icon

• Symbol

• Index

• Qualisign

What moment caused scholars to question the objectivity of their research and investigate their own bias?

• The ontological turn

• The debunking of the sapir-whorf hypothesis

• The birth of sociolinguistics

• The reflexive turn

This image would be fit best within which of the following types of signs?

• Index

• Icon

• Symbol

• None of these