sociolinguistics week 3

refers to the language a person grows up with and uses in everyday life in ordinary interactions

• language

• standard language

• vernacular speech

__________________is used to refer either to a single linguistic norm or to a group of related norms

• language

• dialect

• accent

________________is used to refer to one of the norms of a language

• code

• accent

• dialect

(a)   is a regional variety of a language that has an associated literary tradition

_________________is a regional variety that lacks such a literary tradition

• dialect

• accent

• patois

mutual intelligibility is when speakers can understand each other, as they speak in dialects of the same language

• true

• false

Standard English is variety that

• Usually used in print

• Normally taught in schools

• Learned by non-native speakers

• Used in news broadcasts

As you travel throughout a wide geographical area in which a language is spoken in slightly different way, it is called ___________

• social dialect

• regional dialect

• style

• genre

trousers - pants

chips -- French fries

such differences are called _______

• variants

• variantion

• variables

Standard English, is spoken in a variety of (a)   s, often with clear regional and social associations: such as North America, Singapore, India, Liverpool